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

I looked to the land, and lo, waste and void, And unto the heavens, and their light is not.

But, if man liveth many years, In all of them let him rejoice, And remember the days of darkness, For they are many! all that is coming is vanity.

Remember also thy Creators in days of thy youth, While that the evil days come not, Nor the years have arrived, that thou sayest, 'I have no pleasure in them.'

And it howleth against it in that day as the howling of a sea, And it hath looked attentively to the land, And lo, darkness -- distress, And light hath been darkened by its abundance!

And unto the land it looketh attentively, And lo, adversity and darkness! -- Dimness, distress, and thick darkness is driven away, But not the dimness for which she is in distress!

Therefore hath judgment been far from us, And righteousness reacheth us not, We wait for light, and lo, darkness, For brightness -- in thick darkness we go,

And it hath come to pass in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, I have caused the sun to go in at noon, And caused darkness on the land in a day of light,

Jesus, therefore, said to them, 'Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness hath not known where he goeth;

Your

The way of the wicked is as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.

and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence -- who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving, -- to which also they were set;

he who is loving his brother, in the light he doth remain, and a stumbling-block in him there is not;

While

Looking for peace -- and there is no good, For a time of healing, and lo, terror.

Hast Thou utterly rejected Judah? Zion hath Thy soul loathed? Wherefore hast Thou smitten us, And there is no healing to us? Looking for peace, and there is no good, And for a time of healing, and lo, terror.

Therefore hath judgment been far from us, And righteousness reacheth us not, We wait for light, and lo, darkness, For brightness -- in thick darkness we go,

While we exist -- consumed are our eyes for our vain help, In our watch-tower we have watched for a nation that saveth not.

Gross

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Stretch out thy hand towards the heavens, and there is darkness over the land of Egypt, and the darkness is felt.'

For, lo, the darkness doth cover the earth, And thick darkness the peoples, And on thee rise doth Jehovah, And His honour on thee is seen.

General references

The way of the wicked is as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.

Hear ye the word, O house of Israel, That Jehovah hath spoken for you.

and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.'