¹⁵ And from the wicked their light is withholden, And the high arm is broken.

¹⁵ Break thou the arm of the wicked; And as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

¹⁷ For the arms of the wicked shall be broken; But Jehovah upholdeth the righteous.

⁵ Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine.

²² Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong `arm', and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

¹⁴ They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.

¹⁰ and said, O full of all guile and all villany, thou son of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

¹¹ And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.

¹⁶ Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

²¹ And they shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward:

²² and they shall look unto the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness `they shall be' driven away.

¹⁹ The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.

¹⁸ He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

¹⁸ And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto Jehovah, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.

²¹ And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.

²² And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days;

²³ they saw not one another, neither rose any one from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.