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.

The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.

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

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

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.”

At that time they will growl over their prey, it will sound like sea waves crashing against rocks. One will look out over the land and see the darkness of disaster, clouds will turn the light into darkness.

He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

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.’

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;

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

Tell us what we should say to him. We cannot prepare a case because of the darkness.

May their path be dark and slippery, as the Lord’s angel chases them!