Ezekiel 32:8

Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn’t done it?

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 high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”

God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

Haven’t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.

But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.

But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

“ ‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon himself.

and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.

Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.

Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.

God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,

Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!

He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which will not pass away.

for there will be no reward to the evil man. The lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.

“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the maker of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.

“You are my battle ax and weapons of war. With you I will break the nations into pieces. With you I will destroy kingdoms.

seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”

It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. There was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night. One didn’t come near the other all night.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

“When you have come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put a spreading mildew in a house in the land of your possession,

“ ‘I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

But if Yahweh makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.”

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them,

‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Absalom happened to meet David’s servants. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.

Surely at the commandment of Yahweh this came on Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did,

Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of peace. I will give him rest from all his enemies all around; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days.

For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:

But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”

In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon’s eye seen it.

when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

“What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn’t rebel against his words.

The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

“ ‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.

Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn’t Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

Yahweh says, “Don’t learn the way of the nations, and don’t be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.

Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says to all the captives whom I have caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon:

“Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, so that there will not be day and night in their time;

He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

Then Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.

Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’

But immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;

The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.