I am up before dawn crying for help. I find hope in your word.

in the twilight, the evening, in the dark of the night.

Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,

If I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise?’, and the night stretches on and I toss and turn restlessly until the day dawns.

And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking, ‘No eye can see me,’ and covers his face with a mask.

Those who get up early to drink beer are as good as dead, those who keep drinking long after dark until they are intoxicated with wine.

My heart palpitates, I shake in fear; the twilight I desired has brought me terror.

We grope along the wall like the blind, we grope like those who cannot see; we stumble at noontime as if it were evening. Though others are strong, we are like dead men.

So they started toward the Syrian camp at dusk. When they reached the edge of the Syrian camp, there was no one there.

So they got up and fled at dusk, leaving behind their tents, horses, and donkeys. They left the camp as it was and ran for their lives.

Show the Lord your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile.

But David struck them down from twilight until the following evening. None of them escaped, with the exception of four hundred young men who got away on camels.