Psalms 88:6

For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgment;

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

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.”

For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

Yahweh has accomplished his wrath. He has poured out his fierce anger. He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured its foundations.

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless Yahweh.

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.

As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.

But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

Therefore their way will be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They will be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.

Behold, they cried out, saying, “What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecuted him:

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

He sent from on high and he took me. He drew me out of many waters.

For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.

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

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.

I will make them to pass with your enemies into a land which you don’t know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which will burn on you.”

He has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.”

Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”

I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,

Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”

They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

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

When I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came.

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.

He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,

They will be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and will be shut up in the prison; and after many days they will be visited.

Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

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, even of yourself, will discontinue from your heritage that I gave you. I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you don’t know, for you have kindled a fire in my anger which will burn forever.”

Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.

“Therefore wait for me”, says Yahweh, “until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

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

whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.

For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.

I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

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.

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