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,

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

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

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?’