Quotes About Darkness

Do not stare because I am dark, for the sun has gazed upon me. My motherís sons were angry with me; they made me a keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have neglected.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.

In that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. If one looks over the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be obscured by clouds.

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.

The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.

For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.

How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.

“Give us counsel; render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees.

My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight of my desire has turned to horror.

This is the burden against Dumah: One calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?”

Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”

On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.

I will give you the treasures of darkness and the riches hidden in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who calls you by name.

I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.

“Sit in silence and go into darkness, O Daughter of Chaldea. For you will no longer be called the queen of kingdoms.

I clothe the heavens in black and make sackcloth their covering.”

Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of His Servant? Who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD; let him lean on his God.

and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.

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

Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.

For behold, darkness covers the earth, and thick darkness is over the peoples; but the LORD will rise upon you, and His glory will appear over you.

You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, ëWe are free to roam; we will come to You no moreí?