<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">Are your amazing deeds experienced<n id="1" /> in the dark region,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">or your deliverance in the land of oblivion?<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">In the darkness a light<n id="1" /> shines for the godly,p> <p class="poetry">for each one who is merciful, compassionate, and just.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He watches over<n id="1" /> his holy ones,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but the wicked are made speechless in the darkness,p> <p class="poetry">for it is not by one&#8217;s own strength that one prevails.p>

<p class="poetry">In the dark the robber<n id="1" /> breaks into houses,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but by day they shut themselves in;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">they do not know the light.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Surely, he ate in darkness every day of his life,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and he suffered greatly with sickness and anger.p>

<p class="poetry">You will say<n id="1" /> to the prisoners, &#8216;Come out,&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">and to those who are in dark dungeons,<n id="2" /> &#8216;Emerge.&#8217;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They will graze beside the roads;p> <p class="poetry">on all the slopes they will find pasture.p>

<p class="poetry">You must<n id="1" /> actively help the hungryp> <p class="poetry">and feed the oppressed.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Then your light will dispel the darkness,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and your darkness will be transformed into noonday.<n id="4" />p>

When it was time to shut the city gate for the night, the men left.<n id="1" /> I don&#8217;t know where they were heading. Chase after them quickly, for you have time to catch them!&#8221;

<p class="poetry">The wise man can see where he is going,<n id="1" /> but the fool walks in darkness.p> <p class="poetry">Yet I also realized that the same fate<n id="2" /> happens to them both.<n id="3" />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">&#8220;Sit silently! Go to a hiding place,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">O daughter of the Babylonians!p> <p class="poetry">Indeed,<n id="2" /> you will no longer be called &#8216;Queen of kingdoms.&#8217;p>

<t /><p class="poetry">My enemies,<n id="1" /> do not gloat<n id="2" /> over me!p> <p class="poetry">Though I have fallen, I will get up.p> <p class="poetry">Though I sit in darkness, the <sc>Lordsc> will be my light.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">He said to me, &#8220;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?<n id="1" /> For they think, &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc> does not see us! The <sc>Lordsc> has abandoned the land!&#8217;&#8221;