Isaiah 8:22
or look unto the earth, behold distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, and outspread thick darkness.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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Exodus 10:21And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Stretch out thy hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.'
2 Chronicles 15:5And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great discomfitures were upon all the inhabitants of the lands.
Proverbs 14:32The wicked is thrust down in his misfortune; but the righteous, even when he is brought to death, hath hope.
Isaiah 8:20for instruction and for testimony?' — Surely they will speak according to this word, wherein there is no light. —
Isaiah 50:3I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God, before it grow dark, and before your feet stumble upon the mountains of twilight, and, while ye look for light, He turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 8:17-22
The Importance of the Scriptures. ( b. c. 740.) 16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. 17 And I will wait upon the Lord , that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. 18 Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. 19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto… Read the whole commentary →