Jeremiah 13:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

Before

Your

Proverbs 4:19

1 Peter 2:8

1 John 2:10

While

Gross

Exodus 10:21

Isaiah 60:2

General references

Proverbs 4:19

Jeremiah 10:1

John 11:10

Bible References

Before

Looking at the earth, I saw that it was waste and without form; and to the heavens, that they had no light.

But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.

Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;

And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.

And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.

For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.

And it will come about in that day, says the Lord God, that I will make the sun go down in the middle of the day, and I will make the earth dark in daylight:

Jesus said to them, For a little time longer the light will be among you; while you have the light go on walking in it, so that the dark may not overtake you: one walking in the dark has no knowledge of where he is going.

Your

The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

And, A stone of falling, a rock of trouble; the word is the cause of their fall, because they go against it, and this was the purpose of God.

He who has love for his brother is in the light, and there is no cause of error in him.

While

We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.

Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.

For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.

Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.

Gross

And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out to heaven, and all the land of Egypt will be dark, so that men will be feeling their way about in the dark.

For truly, the earth will be dark, and the peoples veiled in blackest night; but the Lord will be shining on you, and his glory will be seen among you.

General references

The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

Give ear to the word which the Lord says to you, O people of Israel:

But if a man goes about in the night, he may have a fall because the light is not in him.