Isaiah 8:22

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and [they shall be] driven to darkness.

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  • Isa 5:30 : 30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if [one] look unto the land, behold darkness [and] sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, [and] make [it] gross darkness.
  • Zeph 1:14-15 : 14 ¶ The great day of the LORD [is] near, [it is] near, and hasteth greatly, [even] the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. 15 That day [is] a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
  • Matt 8:12 : 12 ‹But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.›
  • Matt 22:13 : 13 ‹Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast› [him] ‹into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.›
  • Matt 24:29 : 29 ‹Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:›
  • Luke 21:25-26 : 25 ‹And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;› 26 ‹Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.›
  • Jude 1:13 : 13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
  • Jer 23:12 : 12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery [ways] in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, [even] the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
  • Jer 30:6-7 : 6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? 7 Alas! for that day [is] great, so that none [is] like it: it [is] even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
  • Amos 5:18-20 : 18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end [is] it for you? the day of the LORD [is] darkness, and not light. 19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. 20 [Shall] not the day of the LORD [be] darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
  • Isa 8:20 : 20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, [it is] because [there is] no light in them.
  • Isa 9:1 : 1 ¶ Nevertheless the dimness [shall] not [be] such as [was] in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict [her by] the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
  • 2 Chr 15:5-6 : 5 And in those times [there was] no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations [were] upon all the inhabitants of the countries. 6 And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 ¶ The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

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    20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, [it is] because [there is] no light in them.

    21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

  • Isa 5:30
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    30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if [one] look unto the land, behold darkness [and] sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

  • Job 10:22
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    22 A land of darkness, as darkness [itself; and] of the shadow of death, without any order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness.

  • Joel 2:10
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    10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:

  • Joel 2:6
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    6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.

  • Jer 13:16
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    16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, [and] make [it] gross darkness.

  • Isa 60:2
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    2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

  • Joel 3:15
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    15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

  • Isa 13:8
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    8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces [shall be as] flames.

  • Ezek 32:8
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    8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.

  • Amos 5:20
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    20 [Shall] not the day of the LORD [be] darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

  • Isa 9:1-2
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    1 ¶ Nevertheless the dimness [shall] not [be] such as [was] in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict [her by] the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

    2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

  • Mark 13:24
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    24 ¶ ‹But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,›

  • Job 12:25
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    25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like [a] drunken [man].

  • Zeph 1:15
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    15 That day [is] a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

  • Joel 2:2
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    2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, [even] to the years of many generations.

  • Amos 8:9
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    9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:

  • Job 3:9
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    9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

  • Isa 13:10
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    10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16 In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

    17 For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of death: if [one] know [them, they are in] the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • Amos 8:12
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    12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find [it].

  • Job 5:14
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    14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

  • Job 22:11
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    11 Or darkness, [that] thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

  • Isa 24:22
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    22 And they shall be gathered together, [as] prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

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    12 They change the night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness.

  • Ps 107:10
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    10 ¶ Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, [being] bound in affliction and iron;

  • Eccl 12:3
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    3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,

  • Job 3:5
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    5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

  • 2 Chr 29:8
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    8 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

  • Jer 8:15
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    15 We looked for peace, but no good [came; and] for a time of health, and behold trouble!

  • Lam 3:2
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    2 He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light.

  • Mic 3:6
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    6 Therefore night [shall be] unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

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    23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.

  • Joel 2:31
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    31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

  • Job 30:26
    73%

    26 When I looked for good, then evil came [unto me]: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

  • Ezek 27:30
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    30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

  • Job 18:18
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    18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

  • Nah 2:10
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    10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain [is] in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

  • Zech 14:6
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    6 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the light shall not be clear, [nor] dark:

  • Isa 29:18
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    18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.

  • Ezek 7:18
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    18 They shall also gird [themselves] with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame [shall be] upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

  • Isa 59:9
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    9 ¶ Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, [but] we walk in darkness.

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    6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

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    23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light.

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    29 ‹Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:›

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    24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

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    17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.