24 Bible Verses about Overtaken By Darkness

As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great darkness fell upon him.

And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and unable to see the sun for a time." Immediately mist and darkness fell upon him, and he went about seeking people to lead him by the hand.

Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us; we hope for light, and behold, darkness, and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

But when I hoped for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came.

yet I am not silenced because of the darkness, nor because thick darkness covers my face.

But with an overflowing flood he will make a complete end of the adversaries, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops.

So Jesus said to them, "The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and in irons,

For it comes in vanity and goes in darkness, and in darkness its name is covered.

So if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity.

They will growl over it on that day, like the growling of the sea. And if one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened by its clouds.

For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the LORD will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you.

Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without divination. The sun shall go down on the prophets, and the day shall be black over them;

To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.

They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.

My heart throbs; my strength fails me, and the light of my eyes--it also has gone from me.

before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain,

or darkness, so that you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,"

You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me; my companions have become darkness.

to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.