Jeremiah 13:16

Good News Translation

Honor the Lord, your God, before he brings darkness, and you stumble on the mountains; before he turns into deep darkness the light you hoped for.

Cross References

Job 3:5

Make it a day of gloom and thick darkness; cover it with clouds, and blot out the sun.

Psalm 107:10

Some were living in gloom and darkness, prisoners suffering in chains,

Psalm 107:14

He brought them out of their gloom and darkness and broke their chains in pieces.

Psalm 29:2

Praise the Lord's glorious name; bow down before the Holy One when he appears.

Psalm 44:19

Yet you left us helpless among wild animals; you abandoned us in deepest darkness.

Exodus 10:21

The Lord then said to Moses, “Raise your hand toward the sky, and a darkness thick enough to be felt will cover the land of Egypt.”

Proverbs 4:19

The road of the wicked, however, is dark as night. They fall, but cannot see what they have stumbled over.

Ecclesiastes 11:8

Be grateful for every year you live. No matter how long you live, remember that you will be dead much longer. There is nothing at all to look forward to.

Isaiah 5:30

When that day comes, they will roar over Israel as loudly as the sea. Look at this country! Darkness and distress! The light is swallowed by darkness.

Isaiah 59:10

and we grope about like blind people. We stumble at noon, as if it were night, as if we were in the dark world of the dead.

Isaiah 59:9

The people say, “Now we know why God does not save us from those who oppress us. We hope for light to walk by, but there is only darkness,

Isaiah 60:2

Other nations will be covered by darkness, But on you the light of the Lord will shine; The brightness of his presence will be with you.

Isaiah 8:22

or stare at the ground, but they will see nothing but trouble and darkness, terrifying darkness into which they are being driven.

Jeremiah 14:19

Lord, have you completely rejected Judah? Do you hate the people of Zion? Why have you hurt us so badly that we cannot be healed? We looked for peace, but nothing good happened; we hoped for healing, but terror came instead.

Jeremiah 2:6

They did not care about me, even though I rescued them from Egypt and led them through the wilderness: a land of deserts and sand pits, a dry and dangerous land where no one lives and no one will even travel.

Jeremiah 23:12

The paths they follow will be slippery and dark; I will make them stumble and fall. I am going to bring disaster on them; the time of their punishment is coming. I, the Lord, have spoken.

Jeremiah 4:23

I looked at the earth—it was a barren waste; at the sky—there was no light.

Jeremiah 50:6

“My people are like sheep whose shepherds have let them get lost in the mountains. They have wandered like sheep from one mountain to another, and they have forgotten where their home is.

Jeremiah 6:21

And so I will make these people stumble and fall. Parents and children will die, and so will friends and neighbors.”

Jeremiah 8:15

We hoped for peace and a time of healing, but it was no use; terror came instead.

Lamentations 4:17

For help that never came, we looked until we could look no longer. We kept waiting for help from a nation that had none to give.

Ezekiel 21:15

It makes my people lose courage and stumble. I am threatening their city with a sword that flashes like lightning and is ready to kill.

Ezekiel 34:12

in the same way as shepherds take care of their sheep that were scattered and are brought together again. I will bring them back from all the places where they were scattered on that dark, disastrous day.

Ezekiel 36:15

The land will no longer have to listen to the nations making fun of it or see the peoples sneer at it. The land will no longer rob the nation of its children. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken.”

Joel 2:2

It will be a dark and gloomy day, a black and cloudy day. The great army of locusts advances like darkness spreading over the mountains. There has never been anything like it, and there never will be again.

Amos 4:13

God is the one who made the mountains and created the winds. He makes his thoughts known to people; he changes day into night. He walks on the heights of the earth. This is his name: the Lord God Almighty!

Amos 5:18

How terrible it will be for you who long for the day of the Lord! What good will that day do you? For you it will be a day of darkness and not of light.

Malachi 2:2

You must honor me by what you do. If you will not listen to what I say, then I will bring a curse on you. I will put a curse on the things you receive for your support. In fact, I have already put a curse on them, because you do not take my command seriously.

John 12:35

Jesus answered, “The light will be among you a little longer. Continue on your way while you have the light, so that the darkness will not come upon you; for the one who walks in the dark does not know where he is going.

Joshua 7:19

Joshua said to him, “My son, tell the truth here before the Lord, the God of Israel, and confess. Tell me now what you have done. Don't try to hide it from me.”

1 Peter 2:8

And another scripture says, “This is the stone that will make people stumble, the rock that will make them fall.” They stumbled because they did not believe in the word; such was God's will for them.

1 Samuel 6:5

You must make these models of the tumors and of the mice that are ravaging your country, and you must give honor to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will stop punishing you, your gods, and your land.