Isaiah 8:22

KJV1611 – Modern English

And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into 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 looks to the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened by the clouds of the heavens.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.
  • Zeph 1:14-15 : 14 The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hastens greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry out there bitterly. 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of devastation 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 will be cast out into outer darkness: there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
  • Matt 22:13 : 13 Then the king said to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
  • Matt 24:29 : 29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
  • Luke 21:25-26 : 25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and on 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 up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
  • Jer 23:12 : 12 Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall in it; for I will bring disaster upon them, the year of their punishment, says the LORD.
  • Jer 30:6-7 : 6 Ask now, and see whether a man is in labor with a child? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in labor, and all faces turned pale? 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 to 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 fled 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, with no brightness in it?
  • Isa 8:20 : 20 To the law and to the testimony: if they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
  • Isa 9:1 : 1 Nevertheless, the gloom will not be as it was in her distress, when at 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 the Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
  • 2 Chr 15:5-6 : 5 And in those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in, but great troubles were upon all the inhabitants of the countries. 6 And nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city; for God troubled 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 banished in his wickedness, but the righteous has hope in his death.

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  • Isa 8:20-21
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    20To the law and to the testimony: if they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

    21And they shall pass through it, hard-pressed 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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    30And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one looks to the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened by the clouds of the heavens.

  • Job 10:22
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    22A land of darkness, like 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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    10The 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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    6Before them the people shall be much pained; all faces shall gather blackness.

  • Jer 13:16
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    16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

  • Isa 60:2
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    2For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the people; but the LORD shall arise upon you, and His glory shall be seen upon you.

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

  • Isa 13:8
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    8And they will be afraid: pangs and sorrows will take hold of them; they will be in pain as a woman in labor: they will be amazed at one another; their faces will be like flames.

  • Ezek 32:8
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    8All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness upon your land, says the Lord GOD.

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

  • Isa 9:1-2
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    1Nevertheless, the gloom will not be as it was in her distress, when at 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 the Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

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

  • Mark 13:24
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    24But 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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    25They grope in the dark without light, and He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

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

  • Joel 2:2
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    2A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the morning spreads upon the mountains: a great and strong people; there has never been anything like it, neither shall there be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.

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

  • Job 3:9
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    9Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; nor let it see the breaking of dawn:

  • Isa 13:10
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    10For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light: the sun will be darkened in its rising, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16In the dark they break into houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

    17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if one knows them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • Amos 8:12
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    12And 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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    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as if it were night.

  • Job 22:11
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    11Or darkness, that you cannot see; and an abundance of waters covers you.

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

  • Job 17:12
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    12They change the night into day; the light is near because of darkness.

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

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

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

  • 2 Chr 29:8
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    8Therefore, the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as you see with your eyes.

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

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

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

  • Ps 69:23
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    23Let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see, and make their loins continually to shake.

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

  • Job 30:26
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    26When I looked for good, then evil came to me; and when I waited for light, darkness came.

  • Ezek 27:30
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    30And shall cause their voice to be heard against you, 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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    18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

  • Nah 2:10
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    10She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melts, and the knees strike together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather paleness.

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

  • Isa 29:18
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    18And 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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    18They shall also clothe 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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    9Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us: we wait for light, but see obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

  • Job 18:6
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    6The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

  • Jer 4:23
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    23I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was formless and empty; and the heavens, and they had no light.

  • Matt 24:29
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    29Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

  • Job 15:24
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    24Trouble and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for battle.

  • Ezek 4:17
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    17That they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and waste away for their iniquity.