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.
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General references
Bible References
Before
Jeremiah 4:23
I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
Ecclesiastes 11:8
Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 12:1
Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, "I have no pleasure in them;"
Isaiah 5:30
They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.
Isaiah 8:22
and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.
Isaiah 59:9
Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
Amos 8:9
It will happen in that day," says the Lord Yahweh, "that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
John 12:35
Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is going.
Your
Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.
1 Peter 2:8
and, "a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.
1 John 2:10
He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.
While
Jeremiah 8:15
We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
Jeremiah 14:19
Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
Isaiah 59:9
Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
Lamentations 4:17
Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
Gross
Exodus 10:21
Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt."
Isaiah 60:2
For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.
General references
Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.
Jeremiah 10:1
Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel!
John 11:10
But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in him."