100 Bible Verses About Darkness

In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?

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

Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.

Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David’s enemy continually.

Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

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

He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

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.

To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.

For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.

Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:

He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.

I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.

So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee.

The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.

Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.

And when they cried unto the Lord, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.

When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.

Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.

And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.

Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

And they forsook the Lord, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.

For thou art my lamp, O Lord: and the Lord will lighten my darkness.

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.

And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.

They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.

How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.

And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.

Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.

And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold.

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

But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower than the other skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:

Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.

My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.

When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.

He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

Arise, O Lord, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:

The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.

Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.

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

Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?

An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the Lord understand all things.