“Where is the way to the dwelling of light, and where is the place of darkness,
All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over you, and put darkness on your land, declares the Lord God.
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth— the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!
I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the Lord, who does all these things.
He sent darkness, and made the land dark; they did not rebel against his words.
You make darkness, and it is night, when all the beasts of the forest creep about.
He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him, thick clouds dark with water.
“Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place, that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?
And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.
And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars. And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness.
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.
Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the twilight mountains, and while you look for light he turns it into gloom and makes it deep darkness.
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