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

Are your amazing deeds experienced in the dark region, or your deliverance in the land of oblivion?

In the darkness a light shines for the godly, for each one who is merciful, compassionate, and just.

He watches over his holy ones, but the wicked are made speechless in the darkness, for it is not by one’s own strength that one prevails.

In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

Surely, he ate in darkness every day of his life, and he suffered greatly with sickness and anger.

You will say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ and to those who are in dark dungeons, ‘Emerge.’ They will graze beside the roads; on all the slopes they will find pasture.

You must actively help the hungry and feed the oppressed. Then your light will dispel the darkness, and your darkness will be transformed into noonday.

When it was time to shut the city gate for the night, the men left. I don’t know where they were heading. Chase after them quickly, for you have time to catch them!”

The wise man can see where he is going, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also realized that the same fate happens to them both.

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

“Sit silently! Go to a hiding place, O daughter of the Babylonians! Indeed, you will no longer be called ‘Queen of kingdoms.’

My enemies, do not gloat over me! Though I have fallen, I will get up. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.

He said to me, “Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the chamber of his idolatrous images? For they think, ‘The Lord does not see us! The Lord has abandoned the land!’”