Then the LORD said to Moses, "Raise your hand toward the sky, and hail will fall over the whole land of Egypt---on the people, the animals, and all the plants in the fields."

May their path be dark and slippery while the angel of the LORD strikes them down!

He caused them great distress by pouring out his anger and fierce rage, which came as messengers of death.

God sent darkness on the country, but the Egyptians did not obey his command.

The road of the wicked, however, is dark as night. They fall, but cannot see what they have stumbled over.

The wise can see where they are going, and fools cannot." But I also know that the same fate is waiting for us all.

It does that baby no good to be born; it disappears into darkness, where it is forgotten.

The people will wander through the land, discouraged and hungry. In their hunger and their anger they will curse their king and their God. They may look up to the sky

or stare at the ground, but they will see nothing but trouble and darkness, terrifying darkness into which they are being driven.

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

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

It was about twelve o'clock when the sun stopped shining and darkness covered the whole country until three o'clock; and the curtain hanging in the Temple was torn in two.

God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell, where they are kept chained in darkness, waiting for the Day of Judgment.

These people are like dried-up springs, like clouds blown along by a storm; God has reserved a place for them in the deepest darkness.

Remember the angels who did not stay within the limits of their proper authority, but abandoned their own dwelling place: they are bound with eternal chains in the darkness below, where God is keeping them for that great Day on which they will be condemned.

They are like wild waves of the sea, with their shameful deeds showing up like foam. They are like wandering stars, for whom God has reserved a place forever in the deepest darkness.

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,

and they cursed the God of heaven for their pains and sores. But they did not turn from their evil ways.