²⁶ For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.

¹⁵ We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.

¹⁹ Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.

²⁵ For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.

²⁶ I have no peace, no quiet, and no rest; nothing but pain comes on me.

¹² For the one living in Maroth is waiting for good: for evil has come down from the Lord to the doorways of Jerusalem.

¹⁸ Why is my pain unending and my wound without hope of being made well? Sorrow is mine, for you are to me as a stream offering false hope and as waters which are not certain.

¹⁰ Who among you has the fear of the Lord, giving ear to the voice of his servant who has been walking in the dark and has no light? Let him put his faith in the name of the Lord, looking to his God for support.

¹¹ Light is shining on the lovers of righteousness, and for the upright in heart there is joy.

¹⁸ Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number;

¹⁷ For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

⁸ My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

¹⁸ He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

⁶ The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.