Exodus 10:21-23
The Ninth Plague: Darkness
21Then the Lord said to Moses, a“Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be bdarkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt.” 22So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was pitch darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. 23They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days, but call the people of Israel had light where they lived.Psalms 78:49
49He let loose on them his burning anger,wrath, indignation, and distress,
a company of ddestroying angels.
Isaiah 8:21-22
21They will pass through the land, ▼▼Hebrew it
greatly distressed and hungry. And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against ▼▼Or speak contemptuously by
their king and their God, and turn their faces upward. 22 gAnd they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. And they will be thrust into hthick darkness. Matthew 8:12
12 iwhile the sons of the kingdom jwill be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place kthere will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”Matthew 22:13
13Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and lcast him into the outer darkness. In that place mthere will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’Revelation of John 9:2
2He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft nrose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and othe sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.Revelation of John 18:11-19
11And pthe merchants of the earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo anymore, 12cargo of gold, silver, jewels, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, all kinds of scented wood, all kinds of articles of ivory, all kinds of articles of costly wood, bronze, iron and marble, 13cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls. ▼▼Or and slaves, and human lives
14 “The fruit for which your soul longed
has gone from you,
and all your delicacies and your splendors
are lost to you,
never to be found again!”
15 rThe merchants of these wares, who gained wealth from her, swill stand far off, in fear of her torment, weeping and mourning aloud,
16 “Alas, alas, for the great city
tthat was clothed in fine linen,
in purple and scarlet,
adorned with gold,
with jewels, and with pearls!
17For uin a single hour all this wealth vhas been laid waste.”
And wall shipmasters and seafaring men, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off 18and xcried out yas they saw the smoke of her burning,
z“What city was like the great city?”
19And they threw aadust on their heads as they wept and mourned, crying out,
“Alas, alas, for the great city
abwhere all who had ships at sea
grew rich by her wealth!
For acin a single hour she has been laid waste.
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