¹⁷ Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

¹³ Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, And lift me up from the gates of death;

¹⁸ Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death.

⁵ Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

¹⁶ The people who sat in darkness saw a great light, To those who sat in the region and shadow of death, To them light has dawned."

⁸ Seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, And turns the shadow of death into the morning, And makes the day dark with night; Who calls for the waters of the sea, And pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

³ The cords of death surrounded me, The pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

¹⁴ He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And broke their bonds in sunder.

¹⁰ Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Being bound in affliction and iron,

⁴ Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

²² He uncovers deep things out of darkness, And brings out to light the shadow of death.