May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
Cross References
Job 3:4If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it.
Job 3:6If only darkness had taken that night away! May it not appear among the days of the year; may it never be entered in any of the months.
Psalm 44:19But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
Treasury of Scripture
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell on it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
the shadow.
Job 10:21,22
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; …
Job 16:16
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Job 24:17
For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
stain it.
Deuteronomy 4:11
And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
Ezekiel 30:3
For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
Ezekiel 34:12
As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
let the blackness.
Jeremiah 4:28
For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
Amos 8:10
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
