Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
Cross-reference
Jeremiah 14:19 repeats the identical lament—looking for peace but receiving no good—directly echoing the failed expectation here.
Jeremiah 8:15 voices the same cry of looking for peace but finding terror, reinforcing the theme of disappointed hope in judgment.
Jeremiah 4:23 describes the earth formless and dark, matching the judgment darkness Jeremiah warns about in this verse.
Jeremiah 23:12 portrays slippery paths in darkness leading to falls, closely matching the dark mountains and stumbling.
Jeremiah 6:21 says God will lay stumbling blocks so people fall, directly parallel to the stumbling on dark mountains.
Isaiah 5:30 depicts darkness and distress with the sun darkened, reinforcing Jeremiah's picture of judgment as darkness.
Exodus 10:21 records the plague of darkness over Egypt—God's judgment through literal darkness, echoing the same divine judgment motif.
Isaiah 59:9 says 'we look for light, but all is darkness,' matching Jeremiah's hope for light turned to utter darkness.
Amos 8:9 depicts God darkening the earth at noon, the same judgment imagery of light turned to gloom Jeremiah warns about.
Isaiah 8:22 speaks of distress, darkness, and utter gloom — nearly identical imagery to Jeremiah's deep gloom and utter darkness.
Ecclesiastes 12:2 describes the sun and light growing dark, directly echoing Jeremiah's language of light turned to darkness.
Proverbs 4:19 says the wicked walk in deep darkness and do not know what they stumble on—directly parallels the stumbling in darkness here.
Psalm 44:19 says God crushed His people and covered them with deep darkness, directly matching the darkness-as-judgment imagery here.
John 12:35 warns to walk while you have light lest darkness overtake you, mirroring the urgency to act before God brings darkness.
1 Samuel 6:5 also uses 'give glory to the God of Israel' as a plea for relief from judgment, paralleling Jeremiah.
Joshua 7:19 uses the same 'give glory to the Lord' phrase, calling Achan to confess like Jeremiah's urgent plea.
1 John 2:11 describes hatred leading to darkness and blindness, matching the blindness and stumbling in Jeremiah's judgment.
Isaiah 59:10 describes groping and stumbling in darkness like the blind, mirroring the stumbling on dark mountains in Jeremiah.
Malachi 2:2 echoes the command to 'give honor to my name' — a direct verbal parallel to 'give glory to the Lord'.
Joel 2:2 echoes the 'day of darkness and gloom' with thick clouds over mountains — a direct parallel to the coming darkness.
Matthew 4:16 reverses the image: light dawns on those in darkness, contrasting Jeremiah's warning of light turning to gloom.
John 11:10 says walking in the night causes stumbling — the same metaphor of stumbling in darkness from lack of light.
Lamentations 3:2 says God brought him into darkness without light, echoing God turning light to gloom in Jeremiah.
Isaiah 45:7 declares God creates darkness and calamity, reinforcing Jeremiah's point that God turns light to gloom.
Psalm 35:6 describes the wicked's way as dark and slippery, paralleling the dark mountains and stumbling in Jeremiah's warning.
Job 38:15 states God denies light to the wicked—a parallel divine action of removing light as judgment, reinforcing the same principle.
Job 19:8 has God shrouding Job's paths in darkness—directly parallel to God turning the path to darkness in Jeremiah's warning.
Job 3:9 describes hoping for light in vain—exactly the same idea as Jeremiah's 'you hope for light but he turns it to darkness'.
Deuteronomy 32:35 uses the same 'foot will slip' imagery for God's vengeance—directly reinforcing the warning of impending judgment.
Revelation 11:13 describes people giving glory to God after an earthquake, using the same phrase 'give glory' as Jeremiah's call before judgment.
Isaiah 60:2 describes darkness covering the earth but God's glory rising on His people—a contrasting outcome to Jeremiah's judgment darkness.
1 John 2:10 promises that loving a brother keeps one in the light with no cause for stumbling, contrasting the darkness and stumbling here.