For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.

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

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

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.

my face is reddened because of weeping, and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,

There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of deepest darkness?

Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; you have covered us with darkness.

Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!

to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

Man puts an end to the darkness; he searches the farthest recesses for the ore in the deepest darkness.

Even when I must walk through the darkest valley, I fear no danger, for you are with me; your rod and your staff reassure me.

(9:1) The people walking in darkness see a bright light; light shines on those who live in a land of deep darkness.

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 there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion; he can turn the darkness into morning and daylight into night. He summons the water of the seas and pours it out on the earth’s surface. The Lord is his name!

They did not ask: ‘Where is the Lord who delivered us out of Egypt, who brought us through the wilderness, through a land of desert sands and rift valleys, through a land of drought and deep darkness, through a land in which no one travels, and where no one lives?’