<p class="poetry">For all of them,<n id="1" /> the morning is to themp> <p class="poetry">like deep darkness;p> <p class="poetry">they are friends with the terrors of darkness.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">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">my face is reddened<n id="1" /> because of weeping,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">There is no darkness, and no deep darkness,p> <p class="poetry">where evildoers can hide themselves.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Have the gates of death been revealed to you?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Have you seen the gates of deepest darkness?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you have covered us with darkness.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Let darkness and the deepestp> <p class="poetry">shadow<n id="1" /> claim it;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">let a cloud settle on it;p> <p class="poetry">let whatever blackens the day<n id="3" /> terrify it!p>

<p class="poetry">to the land of utter darkness,p> <p class="poetry">like the deepest darkness,p> <p class="poetry">and the deepest shadow and disorder,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">where even the light<n id="2" /> is like darkness.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Man puts an end to the darkness;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he searches the farthest recessesp> <p class="poetry">for the ore in the deepest darkness.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Even when I must walk through the darkest valley,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I fear<n id="2" /> no danger,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">for you are with me;p> <p class="poetry">your rod and your staff reassure me.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry"><v id="(9:1)" /> The people walking in darknessp> <p class="poetry">see a bright light;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">light shinesp> <p class="poetry">on those who live in a land of deep darkness.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Show the <sc>Lordsc> your God the respect that is due him.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Do it before you stumble<n id="3" /> into distressp> <p class="poetry">like a traveler on the mountains at twilight.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope forp> <p class="poetry">into the darkness and gloom of exile.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">(But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion;p> <p class="poetry">he can turn the darkness into morningp> <p class="poetry">and daylight<n id="1" /> into night.p> <p class="poetry">He summons the water of the seasp> <p class="poetry">and pours it out on the earth&#8217;s surface.p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> is his name!p>

<p class="poetry">They did not ask:p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Where is the <sc>Lordsc> who delivered us out of Egypt,p> <p class="poetry">who brought us through the wilderness,p> <p class="poetry">through a land of desert sands and rift valleys,p> <p class="poetry">through a land of drought and deep darkness,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">through a land in which no one travels,p> <p class="poetry">and where no one lives?&#8217;<n id="2" />p>