24 Bible Verses about Overtaken By Darkness

When the sun was setting, a deep sleep overcame Abram; and a horror (terror, shuddering fear, nightmare) of great darkness overcame him.

Now, watch! The hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, [so blind that you will be] unable to see the sun for a time.” Immediately a mist and darkness fell upon him, and he groped around, seeking people to lead him by the hand.

Therefore justice is far from us,
And righteousness does not overtake us.
We [expectantly] hope for light, but only see darkness;
We hope for gleam of light, but we walk in darkness and gloom.

“When I expected good, then came evil [to me];
And when I waited for light, then came darkness.

But I am not silenced by the darkness [of these woes that fell on me],
Nor by the thick darkness which covers my face.

But with an overwhelming flood [of judgment through invading armies]
He will make a complete destruction of its site
And will pursue His enemies into darkness.

What I say to you in the dark (privately), tell in the light (publicly); and what you hear whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops [to many people].

So Jesus said to them, “The Light is among you [only] a little while longer. Walk while you have the Light [keep on living by it], so that darkness will not overtake you. He who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going [he is drifting aimlessly].

For even though they knew God [as the Creator], they did not honor Him as God or give thanks [for His wondrous creation]. On the contrary, they became worthless in their thinking [godless, with pointless reasonings, and silly speculations], and their foolish heart was darkened.

for their [moral] understanding is darkened and their reasoning is clouded; [they are] alienated and self-banished from the life of God [with no share in it; this is] because of the [willful] ignorance and spiritual blindness that is [deep-seated] within them, because of the hardness and insensitivity of their heart.

Some dwelt in darkness and in the deep (deathly) darkness,
Prisoners [bound] in misery and chains,

for the miscarriage comes in futility (in vain) and passes into obscurity; and its name is covered in obscurity.

Yes, if a man should live many years, let him rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All that is to come will be futility.

And in that day they will roar against them (Judah) like the roaring of the sea.
And if one looks to the land, in fact, there is darkness and distress;
Even the light will be darkened by its clouds.

“For in fact, darkness will cover the earth
And deep darkness will cover the peoples;
But the Lord will rise upon you [Jerusalem]
And His glory and brilliance will be seen on you.

Therefore it will be night (tragedy) for you—without vision,
And darkness (cataclysm) for you—without foresight.
The sun shall go down on the [false] prophets,
And the day shall become dark and black over them.

[Direct those people] to the law and to the testimony! If their teachings are not in accord with this word, it is because they have no dawn.

“They grope in darkness without light,
And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.”

My heart throbs violently, my strength fails me;
And as for the light of my eyes, even that has also gone from me.

before the sun and the light, and the moon and the stars are darkened [by impaired vision], and the clouds [of depression] return after the rain [of tears];

Or darkness, so that you cannot see,
And a flood of water covers you.

If I say, “Surely the darkness will cover me,
And the night will be the only light around me,”

Lover and friend You have placed far from me;
My familiar friends are in darkness.

To open the eyes of the blind,
To bring out prisoners from the dungeon
And those who sit in darkness from the prison.