Isaiah 8:22

God's Word

They will look at the earth and see only distress and gloom. They will go in anguish and be forced into darkness.

Cross References

Job 18:18

He will be driven from the light into the dark and chased out of the world.

Exodus 10:21

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Lift your hand toward the sky, and a darkness ⌞so thick⌟ that it can be felt will come over Egypt.”

Exodus 10:22

Moses lifted his hand toward the sky, and throughout Egypt there was total darkness for three days.

Proverbs 14:32

A wicked person is thrown down by his own wrongdoing, but even in his death a righteous person has a refuge.

Isaiah 30:6

This is the divine revelation about the animals in the Negev. “My people travel through lands where they experience distress and hardship. Lions and lionesses live there. Vipers and poisonous snakes live there. They carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels to a nation that can’t help them.

Isaiah 5:30

On that day they will roar over their prey as the sea roars. If they look at the land, they will see only darkness and distress. Even the light will be darkened by thick clouds.

Isaiah 50:11

But all of you light fires and arm yourselves with flaming torches. So walk in your own light and among the torches you have lit. This is what you will receive from me: You will be tormented.

Isaiah 50:3

I clothe the heavens in darkness and cover them with sackcloth.

Isaiah 59:9

That is why justice is far from us, and righteousness doesn’t reach us. We hope for light, but we walk in darkness. We hope for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

Isaiah 60:2

Darkness now covers the earth, and thick darkness covers the nations. But the Lord dawns, and his glory appears over you.

Isaiah 8:20

They should go to the teachings and to the written instructions. If people don’t speak these words, it is because it doesn’t dawn on them.

Isaiah 9:1

But there will be no more gloom for the land that is in distress. God humbled the lands of Zebulun and Naphtali in earlier times. But in the future he will bring glory to the road by the sea, to the land across the Jordan River, to Galilee, where foreigners live.

Isaiah 9:20

On the right, one gobbles up food and is still hungry. On the left, another eats and is never full. Each person eats the flesh from his own arm.

Jeremiah 13:16

Honor the Lord your God before it gets dark, before your feet stumble on the mountains in the twilight. You will look for light, but the Lord will turn it into the shadow of death and change it into deep darkness.

Jeremiah 23:12

“That is why their own way will become like slippery paths in the dark. They will be chased away, and they will fall down in the dark. I will bring disaster on them. It is time for them to be punished,” declares the Lord.

Matthew 22:13

Then the king told his servants, ‘Tie his hands and feet, and throw him outside into the darkness. People will cry and be in extreme pain there.’

Matthew 24:29

“Immediately after the misery of those days, the sun will turn dark, the moon will not give light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the universe will be shaken.

Matthew 8:12

The citizens of that kingdom will be thrown outside into the darkness. People will cry and be in extreme pain there.”

Jude 1:13

Their shame is like the foam on the wild waves of the sea. They are wandering stars for whom gloomy darkness is kept forever.

Revelation 16:10

The fifth angel poured his bowl on the throne of the beast. Its kingdom turned dark. People gnawed on their tongues in anguish