Isaiah 59:9
Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
Isaiah 5:30
And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one looketh to the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in its heavens.
Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then evil came: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Jeremiah 8:15
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold, trouble!
Jeremiah 14:19
Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? Why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
Lamentations 5:16-17
The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!
Amos 5:18-20
Woe to you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
Micah 1:12
For the inhabitant of Maroth waited anxiously for good: but evil came down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.
Habakkuk 1:13
Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: why lookest thou on them that deal treacherously, and keepest silence when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?
1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.