23 Bible Verses about Overtaken By Darkness

Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep came on Abram, and a dark cloud of fear.

And now, see, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind and not able to see the sun for a time. And straight away a dark mist came down on him; and he went about looking for a guide.

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.

For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.

For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

But like water overflowing he will take them away; he will put an end to those who come up against him, driving his haters into the dark.

What I say to you in the dark, say in the light: and what comes to your ear secretly, say publicly from the house-tops.

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.

Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark.

Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;

Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;

In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.

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.

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.

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.

For this cause it will be night for you, without a vision; and it will be dark for you, without knowledge of the future; the sun will go down over the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the witness. ... If they do not say such things. ... For him there is no dawn. ...

They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.

While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;

Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.

To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.