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

If I were to say, “Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,”

Praise him, O sun and moon! Praise him, all you shiny stars!

On that day there will be no light – the sources of light in the heavens will congeal.

Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?

There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths.

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

He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.

But now, the sun cannot be looked at – it is bright in the skies – after a wind passed and swept the clouds away.

“In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,

In what direction is lightning dispersed, or the east winds scattered over the earth?

Many say, “Who can show us anything good?” Smile upon us, Lord!

But he will join his ancestors; they will never again see the light of day.

For the commandments are like a lamp, instruction is like a light, and rebukes of discipline are like the road leading to life,

The light of Israel will become a fire, their Holy One will become a flame; it will burn and consume the Assyrian king’s briers and his thorns in one day.

Therefore, I will certainly cut you into pieces at the hands of the prophets; I will certainly kill you in fulfillment of my oracles of judgment; for my judgment will come forth like the light of the dawn.

Don’t you realize the Lord’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light – gloomy blackness, not bright light?

No one could see another person, and no one could rise from his place for three days. But the Israelites had light in the places where they lived.

For this is what the Lord has told me: “I will wait and watch from my place, like scorching heat produced by the sunlight, like a cloud of mist in the heat of harvest.”

They will surrender their stronghold because of fear; their officers will be afraid of the Lord’s battle flag.” This is what the Lord says – the one whose fire is in Zion, whose firepot is in Jerusalem.