Jeremiah 13:16

The Passion Translation

Give all glory to Yahweh your God before he brings darkness, and you stumble and fall on mountain paths in the dusk of twilight. Give him glory before he turns the light you’re longing for into a death shadow and deep gloom.

Cross References

Isaiah 59:9

For this reason, justice is far from us and righteousness doesn’t reach us. We hope for light, but sadly, there is only darkness. We wait for a bright light, but walk in darkness.

Isaiah 8:22

or to the earth, they will find only despair and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into obscure darkness!”

Isaiah 60:2

Look carefully! Darkness blankets the earth, and thick clouds covers the nations, but Yahweh arises upon you and the brightness of his glory appears over you!

Isaiah 5:30

They will roar and roar on that day like the roaring of crashing waves, and if you look back across the land you’ll see only darkness, disaster, and distress; daylight itself will be obscured by thick clouds.

Proverbs 4:19

But the wicked walk in thick darkness, like those who travel in fog, and yet don’t have a clue why they keep stumbling!

Joshua 7:19

Then Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and confess. Tell me the truth and do not hide anything from him. What have you done?”

Jeremiah 23:12

So the paths they take will be dark and slippery. Certainly, they will stumble in the dark and fall headlong.” Yahweh declares, “I will bring disaster on them when the time for punishment comes.

Jeremiah 4:23

I looked at the earth, and it was completely empty and formless, the heavens hid its light.

Psalm 44:19

Yet you have crushed us, leaving us in this wilderness place of misery and desperation. With nowhere else to turn, death’s dark door seems to be the only way out.

1 Peter 2:8

And A stone that makes them stumble and a rock to trip over. They keep stumbling over the message because they refuse to believe it. And this they were destined to do.

John 12:35

Jesus replied, “You will have the light shining with you for only a little while longer. While you still have me, walk in the light, so that the darkness doesn’t overtake you. For when you walk in the dark you have no idea where you’re going.

Lamentations 4:17

We strained our eyes continually and looked, watching for help that never came. From our watchtowers we waited for a nation to help, for a nation that could not save us.

Jeremiah 14:19

Lord, have you completely rejected Judah? Does your soul really despise Zion? Why have you crushed us so that we can’t be healed? We longed for peace and happiness, but nothing good ever came. We longed for a time of healing, and we find a time of terror instead.

Jeremiah 8:15

We had hoped for peace and prosperity, but no blessing came. We had hoped for a time of healing, but we were overtaken by sudden terror!

Psalm 107:10

Some of us once sat in darkness, living in the dark shadows of death. We were prisoners to our pain, chained to our regrets.

Psalm 107:14

His light broke through the darkness and he led us out in freedom from death’s dark shadow and snapped every one of our chains.

Jeremiah 2:6

They never stopped to ask themselves, ‘Where is Yahweh, who rescued us from Egypt? Where is the Yahweh who led us through the wilderness, through a barren wasteland with its pits and problems? Where is the one who led us through a land of deserts and droughts, dangers and deep darkness — where no one lives nor even passes through?’

Jeremiah 6:21

So this is what Yahweh has said: “I will put obstacles before these people, and they will stumble and fall over them. Fathers and children, neighbors and friends, all will die.”

Jeremiah 50:6

“My people are like lost sheep; their shepherds led them astray. They are lost, wandering about in the mountains. They went from mountain to hill, forgetting their resting place.

Ezekiel 21:15

This sword will make them stumble and fall, and their hearts will melt with fear. I have posted the threatening sword at every gate to flash like lightning, polished for the slaughter.

Ezekiel 34:12

As a good shepherd searches after his scattered sheep, so I will look after my sheep and rescue them from wherever they have been scattered on the day of disaster.

Ezekiel 36:15

I will silence the insults of the nations. You will never again have to hear the mocking of the peoples, and you will never again cause your nation to stumble. I, Lord Yahweh, have spoken.’ ”

Psalm 29:2

Be in awe before his majesty. Be in awe before such power and might! Come worship wonderful Yahweh, arrayed in all his splendor, bowing in worship as he appears in the beauty of holiness. Give him the honor due his name. Worship him wearing the glory-garments of your holy, priestly calling!

Isaiah 59:10

We are like the blind groping along a wall, inching along in the dark like those who cannot see; we stumble around in broad daylight like it was night, like the walking dead.