Moses raised his hand toward the sky, and there was total darkness throughout Egypt for three days.

The Egyptians could not see each other, and no one left his house during that time. But the Israelites had light where they were living.

It will be a dark and gloomy day, a black and cloudy day. The great army of locusts advances like darkness spreading over the mountains. There has never been anything like it, and there never will be again.

How terrible it will be for you who long for the day of the LORD! What good will that day do you? For you it will be a day of darkness and not of light.

At noon the whole country was covered with darkness, which lasted for three hours.

For many days we could not see the sun or the stars, and the wind kept on blowing very hard. We finally gave up all hope of being saved.

Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast. Darkness fell over the beast's kingdom, and people bit their tongues because of their pain,

The LORD your God takes care of this land and watches over it throughout the year.