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

¹³ Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death;

¹⁸ They are disgusted by all food, and they come near to the doors of death.

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.

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.

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;

³ The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.

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

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

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.

²² Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;