⁵ Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

⁴ Yes, though I go through the valley of deep shade, I will have no fear of evil; for you are with me, your rod and your support are my comfort.

²¹ Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

²² A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

¹⁶ Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

² The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the light is shining.

³ Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.

¹⁷ For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

¹⁷ Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?

⁶ And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?

¹⁶ The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.

⁷⁹ To give light to those in dark places, and in the shade of death, so that our feet may be guided into the way of peace.

¹⁸ You have not come to a mountain which may be touched, and is burning with fire, and to a black cloud, and a dark smoke, and a violent wind,

¹⁰ Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

¹⁶ My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;

¹⁹ Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.

¹⁰ Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;

¹⁴ He took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken.

²⁸ The earth will be weeping for this, and the heavens on high will be black: because I have said it, and I will not go back from it; it is my purpose, and it will not be changed.

³ For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near, a day of cloud; it will be the time of the nations.

¹² As the keeper goes looking for his flock when he is among his wandering sheep, so I will go looking for my sheep, and will get them safely out of all the places where they have been sent wandering in the day of clouds and black night.

² For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.

⁸ Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;

¹¹ And you came near, waiting at the foot of the mountain; and flames of fire went up from the mountain to the heart of heaven, with dark clouds, and all was black as night.