<p class="poetry">Though the stillborn child<n id="1" /> came into the world<n id="2" /> for no reason<n id="3" /> and departed into darkness,p> <p class="poetry">though its name is shrouded in darkness,<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">They meet with darkness in the daytime,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and grope about<n id="2" /> in the noontime as if it were night.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">They grope about in darkness<n id="1" /> without light;p> <p class="poetry">he makes them stagger<n id="2" /> like drunkards.p>

<p class="poetry">He is driven<n id="1" /> from light into darknessp> <p class="poetry">and is banished from the world.p>

<p class="poetry">They sat in utter darkness,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">bound in painful iron chains,<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He brought them out of the utter darkness,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and tore off their shackles.p>

<p class="poetry">who leave<n id="1" /> the upright<n id="2" /> pathsp> <p class="poetry">to walk on the dark<n id="3" /> ways,p>

<p class="poetry">He drove me into captivity<n id="1" /> and made me walk<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">in darkness and not light.p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Extend your hand toward heaven<n id="2" /> so that there may be<n id="3" /> darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness so thick it can be felt.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Those who call evil good and good evil are as good as dead,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">who turn darkness into light and light into darkness,p> <p class="poetry">who turn bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He shrouded himself in darkness,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">in thick rain clouds.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed,<n id="1" /> you are my lamp,<n id="2" /> <sc>Lordsc>.p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> illumines<n id="3" /> the darkness around me.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">before I depart, never to return,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">to the land of darknessp> <p class="poetry">and the deepest shadow,<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He reveals the deep things of darkness,p> <p class="poetry">and brings deep shadows<n id="1" /> into the light.p>

<p class="poetry">These men<n id="1" /> change<n id="2" /> night into day;p> <p class="poetry">they say,<n id="3" /> &#8216;The light is nearp> <p class="poetry">in the face of darkness.&#8217;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">If<n id="1" /> I hope for the grave to be my home,p> <p class="poetry">if I spread out my bed in darkness,p>

<p class="poetry">He has blocked<n id="1" /> my way so I cannot pass,p> <p class="poetry">and has set darkness<n id="2" /> over my paths.p>

<p class="poetry">why it is so dark you cannot see,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and why a flood<n id="2" /> of water covers you.p>

<p class="poetry">Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness,p> <p class="poetry">because of the thick darknessp> <p class="poetry">that covered my face.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">when<n id="1" /> he caused<n id="2" /> his lamp<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">to shine upon my head,p> <p class="poetry">and by his lightp> <p class="poetry">I walked<n id="4" /> through darkness;<n id="5" />p>