Though the stillborn child came into the world for no reason and departed into darkness, though its name is shrouded in darkness,

They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.

They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.

He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

They sat in utter darkness, bound in painful iron chains,

He brought them out of the utter darkness, and tore off their shackles.

who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways,

He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.

The Lord said to Moses, “Extend your hand toward heaven so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness so thick it can be felt.”

Those who call evil good and good evil are as good as dead, who turn darkness into light and light into darkness, who turn bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter.

He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

Indeed, you are my lamp, Lord. The Lord illumines the darkness around me.

before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

He reveals the deep things of darkness, and brings deep shadows into the light.

These men change night into day; they say, ‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’

If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

when he caused his lamp to shine upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;