Some common [metonymies](../figs-metonymy/01.md) and [metaphors](../figs-metaphor/01.md) from the Bible involving natural phenomena are listed below in alphabetical order. The word in all capital letters identifies an Image that represents an Idea. The specific word of the Image may not appear in every verse that uses the Image, but the text will communicate somehow the concept of the Image.
> Woe to those ***who call evil good, and good evil***; ***who represent darkness as light, and light as darkness***; who represent bitter as sweet, and sweet as bitter! (Isaiah 5:20 ULT)
> But if your eye is ***bad***, your whole body is ***full of darkness***. Therefore, if the light that is in you is actually ***darkness***, how great is that ***darkness***! (Matthew 6:23 ULT)
> Truly the ***light is sweet***, and it is a ***pleasant thing*** for the eyes to see the sun. (Ecclesiastes 11:7 ULT)
> I am a man who has seen ***misery*** under the rod of Yahweh’s fury. He drove me away and caused me to walk in ***darkness*** rather than light. (Lamentations 3:1-2 ULT)
> Then I began to understand that ***wisdom has advantages over folly***, just as ***light is better than darkness***. (Ecclesiastes 2:13 ULT)
> They are ***darkened in their understanding***, being alienated from the life of God because of the ***ignorance*** that is in them, because of the ***hardness of their hearts***. (Ephesians 4:18 ULT)
> For with you is the fountain of life; ***in your light we will see light***. (Psalm 36:9 ULT)
> They say, ‘Hand over the man who struck his brother, so that we may put him to death, to pay for the life of his brother whom he killed.’ And so they would also destroy the heir. Thus they will put out the ***burning coal*** that I have left, and they will leave for my husband neither name nor descendant on the surface of the earth. (2 Samuel 14:7 ULT)
> You must not go to battle anymore with us, so that you do not put out the ***lamp of Israel***. (2 Samuel 21:17 ULT)
> I will give one tribe to Solomon’s son, so that David my servant may always have ***a lamp*** before me in Jerusalem. (1 Kings 11:36 ULT)
> Nevertheless for David’s sake, Yahweh his God gave him ***a lamp*** in Jerusalem by raising up his son after him in order to strengthen Jerusalem. (1 Kings 15:4 ULT)
> Indeed, ***the light*** of the wicked person will be put out; ***the spark of his fire*** will not shine. ***The light*** will be dark in his tent; ***his lamp*** above him will be put out. (Job 18:5-6 ULT)
> For you give ***light to my lamp***; Yahweh my God ***lights up my darkness***. (Psalm 18:28 ULT)
> A ***dimly burning wick*** he will not quench. (Isaiah 42:3 ULT)