Jeremiah 4:23

Webster's Bible (1833)

I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

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  • Mark 13:24-25 : 24 But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, 25 the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken.
  • 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.
  • Gen 1:2 : 2 Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
  • Isa 13:10 : 10 For the stars of the sky and the constellations of it shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.
  • Acts 2:19-20 : 19 I will show wonders in the sky above, And signs on the earth beneath; Blood, and fire, and billows of smoke. 20 The sun will be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
  • 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.
  • Joel 3:15-16 : 15 The sun and the moon are darkened, And the stars withdraw their shining." 16 Yahweh will roar from Zion, And thunder from Jerusalem; And the heavens and the earth will shake; But Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, And a stronghold to the children of Israel.
  • Rev 20:11 : 11 I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.
  • Matt 24:35 : 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
  • Joel 2:30-31 : 30 I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: Blood, fire, and pillars of smoke. 31 The sun will be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
  • Amos 8:9 : 9 "It 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.
  • Isa 24:19-23 : 19 The earth is utterly broken, the earth is torn apart, the earth is shaken violently. 20 The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway back and forth like a hammock; and the disobedience of it shall be heavy on it, and it shall fall, and not rise again. 21 It shall happen in that day, that Yahweh will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth. 22 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. 23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders shall be glory.
  • Jer 9:10 : 10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone.
  • Ezek 32:7-8 : 7 When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make the stars of it dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light. 8 All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh.
  • Joel 2:10 : 10 The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, And the stars withdraw their shining.

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  • Gen 1:1-5
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    1In the beginning God{After "God," the Hebrew has the two letters "Aleph Tav" (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet) as a grammatical marker.} created the heavens and the earth.

    2Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

    3God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

    4God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.

    5God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. There was evening and there was morning, one day.

  • Jer 4:24-26
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    24I saw the mountains, and, behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth.

    25I saw, and, behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky were fled.

    26I saw, and, behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all the cities of it were broken down at the presence of Yahweh, [and] before his fierce anger.

  • 22The land dark as midnight, Of the shadow of death, without any order, Where the light is as midnight.'"

  • Prov 8:26-27
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    26While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the beginning of the dust of the world.

    27When he established the heavens, I was there; When he set a circle on the surface of the deep,

  • 1Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants of it.

  • 22For my people are foolish, they don't know me; they are foolish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

  • Gen 1:14-15
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    14God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;

    15and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth," and it was so.

  • Gen 1:17-18
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    17God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,

    18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

  • 19"What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is the place of it,

  • 4This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made earth and the heavens.

  • 10She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.

  • 22and they shall look to the earth, and see, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.

  • 11Or darkness, so that you can not see, And floods of waters cover you.

  • 16It stood still, but I couldn't discern the appearance of it; A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,

  • 5They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

  • 4"Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.

  • 5For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;

  • 9Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, Neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

  • Gen 1:9-10
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    9God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear," and it was so.

    10God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas. God saw that it was good.

  • 14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

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

  • 6Sheol{Sheol is the lower world or the grave.} is naked before God, And Abaddon{Abaddon means Destroyer.} has no covering.

  • 4The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.

  • 28For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.

  • 12God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

  • 4His lightning lights up the world. The earth sees, and trembles.

  • 28When I look, there is no man: even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.

  • 21Have you not known? have yet not heard? has it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

  • 16Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

  • 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.

  • 3I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

  • 2God looks down from heaven on the children of men, To see if there are any who understood, Who seek after God.

  • 4Let that day be darkness; Don't let God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine on it.

  • 10For the stars of the sky and the constellations of it shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.

  • 2Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, And the clouds return after the rain;

  • 2Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, To see if there were any who did understand, Who did seek after God.

  • 13For, behold, he who forms the mountains, And creates the wind, And declares to man what is his thought; Who makes the morning darkness, And treads on the high places of the Earth: Yahweh, the God of hosts, is his name."

  • 28For they are a nation void of counsel, There is no understanding in them.

  • 5Behold, even the moon has no brightness, And the stars are not pure in his sight;