The color black

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• Lamentations 5:10

  Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

• Jeremiah 14:2

  Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

• Song of Solomon 1:5

  I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

• Zechariah 6:2

  In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;

• Job 30:30

  My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

• Zechariah 6:6

  The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country.

• Matthew 5:36

  Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.

• Revelation 6:5

  And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.

• Jude 1:13

  Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

• Revelation 7:9

  After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;

• Daniel 7:9

  I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.

• Jeremiah 8:21

  For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

• Genesis 25:25

  And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.

• Numbers 12:1

  And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.

• Proverbs 7:9

  In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

• 2 Peter 2:4

  For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

• Revelation 1:1

  The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

• Job 3:5

  Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

• Acts 17:26

  And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;