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Colors: Black: A Symbol of Affliction and Calamity Job 3:5

May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.

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Colors: Black: A Symbol of Affliction and Calamity Job 10:20–22

Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort, / before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom, / to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

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Colors: Black: A Symbol of Affliction and Calamity Job 30:26

But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.

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Colors: Black: A Symbol of Affliction and Calamity Psalm 107:10, 11

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains, / because they rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High.

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Colors: Black: A Symbol of Affliction and Calamity Psalm 143:3

For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.

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Colors: Black: A Symbol of Affliction and Calamity Isaiah 5:30

In that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. If one looks over the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be obscured by clouds.

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Colors: Black: A Symbol of Affliction and Calamity Isaiah 8:22

Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.

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Colors: Black: A Symbol of Affliction and Calamity Isaiah 9:19

By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts the land is scorched, and the people are fuel for the fire. No man even spares his brother.

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Colors: Black: A Symbol of Affliction and Calamity Isaiah 24:11

In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.

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Colors: Black: A Symbol of Affliction and Calamity Isaiah 50:3

I clothe the heavens in black and make sackcloth their covering.”

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Colors: Black: A Symbol of Affliction and Calamity Joel 2:6, 10

Nations writhe in horror before them; every face turns pale. / Before them the earth quakes; the heavens tremble. The sun and moon grow dark, and the stars lose their brightness.

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Colors: Black: A Symbol of Affliction and Calamity Joel 3:14, 15

Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the Day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. / The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will no longer shine.

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Colors: Black: A Symbol of Affliction and Calamity Amos 5:8

He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth—the LORD is His name—

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Colors: Black: A Symbol of Affliction and Calamity Nahum 2:10

She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and laid waste! Hearts melt, knees knock, bodies tremble, and every face grows pale!

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Colors: Black: A Symbol of Affliction and Calamity Zephaniah 1:14, 15

The great Day of the LORD is near—near and coming quickly. Listen, the Day of the LORD! Then the cry of the mighty will be bitter. / That day will be a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

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Colors: Black: A Symbol of Affliction and Calamity Matthew 8:12

But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

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Colors: Black: A Symbol of Affliction and Calamity Matthew 22:13

Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

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Colors: Black: A Symbol of Affliction and Calamity Matthew 25:30

And throw that worthless servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

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Colors: Black: A Symbol of Affliction and Calamity 2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;

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Colors: Black: A Symbol of Affliction and Calamity Jude 1:13

They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.

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Colors: Black: A Symbol of Affliction and Calamity Revelation 16:10

And the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness, and men began to gnaw their tongues in anguish

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