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

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.

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.

²⁰ When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.

²¹ What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.

¹³ Then the king said to the servants, Put cords round his hands and feet and put him out into the dark; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

⁸ Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me.

⁶ He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

⁷ He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.

⁷ To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.

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.

¹⁸ His feet were fixed in chains; his neck was put in iron bands;

⁸ And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble,

⁹ Then he makes clear to them what they have done, even their evil works in which they have taken pride.

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.

¹¹ So the Lord sent against them the captains of the army of Assyria, who made Manasseh a prisoner and took him away in chains to Babylon.

²³ Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God.

²⁴ And at the sound of their weeping the agreement which God had made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob came to his mind.