Isaiah 59:9
For this cause, hath justice removed far from us, And righteousness overtaketh us not, - We wait for light, But lo! darkness, For brightness, In thick darkness, we walk:
Isaiah 5:30
Yea he will growl at him in that day, like the growling of the sea, - Though he look hard for the land, lo! the darkness of distress, Yea the light, hath grown dark in its clouds!
Job 30:26
Surely, for good, I looked, but there came in evil, And I waited for light, but there came in darkness;
Jeremiah 8:15
A waiting For prosperity, but no welfare, - For a time of healing, but lo! terror.
Jeremiah 14:19
Hast thou, utterly rejected, Judah? Zion itself, hath thy soul loathed? Why, hast thou smitten us so that there is for us no healing? A waiting For prosperity, but no welfare, and For a time of healing, but lo! terror!
Lamentations 5:16-17
Fallen is the crown of our head. Surely woe to us, for we have sinned.
Amos 5:18-20
Alas for them who are longing for the day of Yahweh, - What good to you, is the day of Yahweh? it, being darkness and not light:
Micah 1:12
Though the inhabitress of Maroth waited for blessing, - yet there came down calamity from Yahweh, to the gate of Jerusalem.
Habakkuk 1:13
Thou whose eyes are too pure to look with approval on wrong, to respect oppression, canst not endure, - Wherefore, shouldst thou respect the treacherous? Be silent, when the lawless, swalloweth up, one more righteous than he?
1 Thessalonians 5:3
As soon as they begin to say - Peace! and safety! then, suddenly, upon them, cometh destruction, - just as the birth-throe unto her that is with child, - and in nowise shall they escape.