Isaiah 8:22

World English Bible (2000)

and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

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  • Isa 5:30 : 30 They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on 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 Yahweh is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of Yahweh. The mighty man cries there bitterly. 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,
  • Matt 8:12 : 12 but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the 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 throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.'
  • Matt 24:29 : 29 But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
  • Luke 21:25-26 : 25 There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves; 26 men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
  • Jude 1:13 : 13 wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
  • Jer 23:12 : 12 Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.
  • Jer 30:6-7 : 6 Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child: why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, 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 to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light. 19 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him. 20 Won't the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
  • Isa 8:20 : 20 Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don't speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
  • Isa 9:1 : 1 But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
  • 2 Chr 15:5-6 : 5 In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the lands. 6 They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against 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 brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

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  • Isa 8:20-21
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    20Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don't speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

    21They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry; and it will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,

  • Isa 5:30
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    30They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

  • Job 10:22
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    22the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"

  • Joel 2:10
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    10The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

  • Joel 2:6
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    6At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.

  • Jer 13:16
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    16Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on 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, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.

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

  • Isa 13:8
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    8They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.

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

  • Amos 5:20
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    20Won't the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

  • Isa 9:1-2
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    1But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

    2The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined.

  • Mark 13:24
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    24But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,

  • Job 12:25
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    25They grope in the dark without light. 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 distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

  • Joel 2:2
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    2A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

  • Amos 8:9
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    9It will happen in that day," says the Lord Yahweh, "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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    9Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

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

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

    17For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

  • Amos 8:12
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    12They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run back and forth to seek the word of Yahweh, and will not find it.

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

  • Job 22:11
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    11or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

  • Isa 24:22
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    22They 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.

  • Job 17:12
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    12They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

  • Ps 107:10
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    10Some sat 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 shall tremble, and the strong men shall 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 for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

  • 2 Chr 29:8
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    8Therefore the wrath of Yahweh was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a 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 healing, and behold, dismay!

  • Lam 3:2
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    2He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

  • Mic 3:6
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    6"Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

  • Ps 69:23
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    23Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see. Let their backs be continually bent.

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

  • Job 30:26
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    26When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.

  • Ezek 27:30
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    30and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on 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, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.

  • Zech 14:6
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    6It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost.

  • Isa 29:18
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    18In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will 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 on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.

  • Isa 59:9
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    9Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

  • Job 18:6
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    6The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.

  • Jer 4:23
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    23I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

  • Matt 24:29
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    29But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;

  • Job 15:24
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    24Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

  • Ezek 4:17
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    17that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.