'Dark' in the Bible

And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.

And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,

Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.

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

Then when the sun went down and it was dark, he saw a smoking fire and a flaming light which went between the parts of the bodies.

His eyes will be dark with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out to heaven, and all the land of Egypt will be dark, so that men will be feeling their way about in the dark.

And when Moses' hand was stretched out, dark night came over all the land of Egypt for three days;

Keep it till the fourteenth day of the same month, when everyone who is of the children of Israel is to put it to death between sundown and dark.

And it came between the army of Egypt and the army of Israel; and there was a dark cloud between them, and they went on through the night; but the one army came no nearer to the other all the night.

And the people kept their places far off, but Moses went near to the dark cloud where God was.

With him I will have talk mouth to mouth, openly and not in dark sayings; and with his eyes he will see the form of the Lord: why then had you no fear of saying evil against my servant Moses?

And you came near, waiting at the foot of the mountain; and flames of fire went up from the mountain to the heart of heaven, with dark clouds, and all was black as night.

These words the Lord said to all of you together on the mountain, out of the heart of the fire, out of the cloud and the dark, with a great voice: and he said no more; he put them in writing on the two stones of the law and gave them to me.

And after hearing the voice which came out of the dark while the mountain was burning with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your chiefs came to me,

You will go feeling your way when the sun is high, like a blind man for whom all is dark, and nothing will go well for you: you will be crushed and made poor for ever, and you will have no saviour.

Your very life will be hanging in doubt before you, and day and night will be dark with fears, and nothing in life will be certain:

And when it was the time for shutting the doors at dark, they went out; I have no idea where the men went: but if you go after them quickly, you will overtake them.

And at their cry, the Lord made it dark between you and the Egyptians, and made the sea go over them, covering them with its waters; your eyes have seen what I did in Egypt: then for a long time you were living in the waste land.

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the evil-doers will come to their end in the dark night, for by strength no man will overcome.

But one man of your family will not be cut off by my hand, and his eyes will be made dark, and grief will be in his heart: and all the offspring of your family will come to their end by the sword of men.

The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet.

And he made the dark his tent round him, a mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and coals of fire.

For you are my light, O Lord; and the Lord will make the dark bright for me.

And so, when the streets of Jerusalem were getting dark before the Sabbath, I gave orders for the doors to be shut and not to be open again till after the Sabbath: and I put some of my servants by the door so that nothing might be taken in on the Sabbath day.

That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;

Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.

In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

Which are dark because of the ice, and the snow falling into them;

Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

And your life will be brighter than day; though it is dark, it will become like the morning.

Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;

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

He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword;

He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him:

He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.

My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;

Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.

My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.

If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.

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

And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?

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

In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.

When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.

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

I go about in dark clothing, uncomforted; I get up in the public place, crying out for help.

There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.

Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.

And now the light is not seen, for it is dark because of the clouds; but a wind comes, clearing them away.

Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?

Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?

Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.

The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet.

He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and fire.

You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.

Let their way be dark and full of danger; let them be troubled by the angel of the Lord.

I will put my teaching into a story; I will make my dark sayings clear with music.

Keep in mind your undertaking; for the dark places of the earth are full of pride and cruel acts.

Opening my mouth I will give out a story, even the dark sayings of old times;

O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

Or of the disease which takes men in the dark, or of the destruction which makes waste when the sun is high.

Dark clouds are round him; his kingdom is based on righteousness and right judging.

When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places.

He sent black night and made it dark; and they did not go against his word.

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

He took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken.

For the upright there is a light shining in the dark; he is full of grace and pity.

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

Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.

To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.

Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;

The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.

Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark?

Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways--as the light is better than the dark.

The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man goes walking in the dark; but still I saw that the same event comes to them all.

All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.

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.

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

I am dark, but fair of form, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.