Job 30:26
New International Version
26 Yet when I hoped for good, evil came;
when I looked for light, then came darkness.(A)
Job 30:26
New King James Version
26 (A)But when I looked for good, evil came to me;
And when I waited for light, then came darkness.
Isaiah 5:30
New King James Version
30 In that day they will roar against them
Like the roaring of the sea.
And if one (A)looks to the land,
Behold, darkness and [a]sorrow;
And the light is darkened by the clouds.
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- Isaiah 5:30 distress
Isaiah 8:21-22
New International Version
21 Distressed and hungry,(A) they will roam through the land;(B) when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse(C) their king and their God. 22 Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom,(D) and they will be thrust into utter darkness.(E)
Isaiah 8:21-22
New King James Version
21 They will pass through it hard-pressed and hungry; and it shall happen, when they are hungry, that they will be enraged and (A)curse [a]their king and their God, and look upward. 22 Then they will look to the earth, and see trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they will be driven into darkness.
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- Isaiah 8:21 Or by their king and by their God
Isaiah 9:2
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Isaiah 9:2
New King James Version
2 (A)The people who walked in darkness
Have seen a great light;
Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death,
Upon them a light has shined.
Isaiah 59:9
New International Version
9 So justice is far from us,
and righteousness does not reach us.
We look for light, but all is darkness;(A)
for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows.
Isaiah 59:9
New King James Version
Sin Confessed
9 Therefore justice is far from us,
Nor does righteousness overtake us;
(A)We look for light, but there is darkness!
For brightness, but we walk in blackness!
Isaiah 60:2
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Isaiah 60:2
New King James Version
2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth,
And deep darkness the people;
But the Lord will arise over you,
And His glory will be seen upon you.
Jeremiah 13:16
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Jeremiah 13:16
New King James Version
16 (A)Give glory to the Lord your God
Before He causes (B)darkness,
And before your feet stumble
On the dark mountains,
And while you are (C)looking for light,
He turns it into (D)the shadow of death
And makes it dense darkness.
Jeremiah 23:12
New International Version
Jeremiah 23:12
New King James Version
12 “Therefore(A) their way shall be to them
Like slippery ways;
In the darkness they shall be driven on
And fall in them;
For I (B)will bring disaster on them,
The year of their punishment,” says the Lord.
Lamentations 3:2
New International Version
2 He has driven me away and made me walk
in darkness(A) rather than light;
Lamentations 3:2
New King James Version
2 He has led me and made me walk
In darkness and not in light.
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