Jeremiah 13:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

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  • Isa 8:22 : 22 And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.
  • Isa 59:9 : 9 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.
  • Josh 7:19 : 19 And Joshua said to Achan, My son, give glory and praise to the Lord, the God of Israel; give me word now of what you have done, and keep nothing back from me.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.
  • Isa 5:30 : 30 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.
  • Isa 60:2 : 2 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.
  • Jer 23:12 : 12 For this cause their steps will be slipping on their way: they will be forced on into the dark and have a fall there: for I will send evil on them in the year of their punishment, says the Lord.
  • Ps 44:19 : 19 Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.
  • Ps 96:7-8 : 7 Give to the Lord, O you families of the peoples, give to the Lord glory and strength. 8 Give to the Lord the glory of his name; take with you an offering and come into his house.
  • 1 Sam 6:5 : 5 So make images of the growths caused by your disease and of the mice which are damaging your land; and give glory to the God of Israel: it may be that the weight of his hand will be lifted from you and from your gods and from your land.
  • Exod 10:21 : 21 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.
  • Eccl 11:8 : 8 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.
  • Eccl 12:1-2 : 1 Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them; 2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;
  • Lam 4:17 : 17 Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.
  • Amos 8:9-9 : 9 And it will come about in that day, says the Lord God, that I will make the sun go down in the middle of the day, and I will make the earth dark in daylight: 10 Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.
  • John 12:35 : 35 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.
  • 1 Pet 2:8 : 8 And, A stone of falling, a rock of trouble; the word is the cause of their fall, because they go against it, and this was the purpose of God.
  • 1 John 2:10-11 : 10 He who has love for his brother is in the light, and there is no cause of error in him. 11 But he who has hate for his brother is in the dark, walking in the dark with no knowledge of where he is going, unable to see because of the dark.
  • Jer 4:23 : 23 Looking at the earth, I saw that it was waste and without form; and to the heavens, that they had no light.
  • Jer 8:15 : 15 We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.
  • Jer 14:19 : 19 Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.

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