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.

Bible References

Before

Jeremiah 4:23
I looked at the earth, and behold, it was wasteland and emptiness, and to the heavens, and [they were] without their light.
Ecclesiastes 11:8
For if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in all of them! Let him remember that the days of the darkness will be many-- all that is coming [is] vanity!
Ecclesiastes 12:1
Remember your Creator in the days of your youth-- before the days of trouble come and the years draw near when you will say, "I find no pleasure in them!"
Isaiah 5:30
And he will roar over him on that day like [the] roaring of [the] sea, and [if] one looks to the land, look! Darkness! Distress! And [the] light grows dark with its clouds.
Isaiah 8:22
or look to [the] earth. But look! Distress and darkness, [the] gloom of affliction! And [it will be] thrust [into] darkness!
Isaiah 59:9
Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We wait for light, but look! [there is] darkness; for brightness, [but] we walk in darkness.
Amos 8:9
And then in that day," {declares} my Lord Yahweh, "I will make the sun go down at noon and I will darken the land on a day of light.
John 12:35
So Jesus said to them, "Yet a little time the light is with you! Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness does not overtake you! And the one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

Your

Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked ones [is] like deep darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.
1 Peter 2:8
and "A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense," who stumble [because they] disobey the word to which also they were consigned.
1 John 2:10
The one who loves his brother resides in the light, and [there] is no cause for stumbling in him.

While

Jeremiah 8:15
[We] hope for peace, but there is no good, for a time of healing, but there is terror.
Jeremiah 14:19
Have you completely rejected Judah? Or has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us so that there is no healing for us? We hope for peace, but there is no good, and for a time of healing, but look, there is terror.
Isaiah 59:9
Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We wait for light, but look! [there is] darkness; for brightness, [but] we walk in darkness.
Lamentations 4:17
Still our eyes failed, [looking for] our help in vain; in our watchtower, we kept watch for a nation that could not save.

Gross

Exodus 10:21
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the heavens so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt and so that [a person can] feel darkness."
Isaiah 60:2
For look! darkness shall cover [the] earth, and thick darkness [the] peoples, but Yahweh will rise on you, and his glory will appear over you.

General references

Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked ones [is] like deep darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.
Jeremiah 10:1
Hear the word that Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel.
John 11:10
But if anyone walks around in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.