¹¹ Or darkness -- thou dost not see, And abundance of waters doth cover thee.

⁵⁴ Flowed have waters over my head, I have said, I have been cut off.

¹ To the Overseer. -- `On the Lilies,' by David. Save me, O God, for come have waters unto the soul.

² I have sunk in deep mire, And there is no standing, I have come into the depths of the waters, And a flood hath overflown me.

³ When Thou dost cast me `into' the deep, Into the heart of the seas, Then the flood doth compass me, All Thy breakers and Thy billows have passed over me.

⁴ Then the waters had overflowed us, The stream passed over our soul,

⁵ Then passed over our soul had the proud waters.

⁸ My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.

¹² but the sons of the reign shall be cast forth to the outer darkness -- there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.'

² A day of darkness and thick darkness, A day of cloud and thick darkness, As darkness spread on the mountains, A people numerous and mighty, Like it there hath not been from of old, And after it there is not again -- till the years of generation and generation.

³ Before it consumed hath fire, And after it burn doth a flame, As the garden of Eden `is' the land before it, And after it a wilderness -- a desolation! And also an escape there hath not been to it,

² Me He hath led, and causeth to go `in' darkness, and without light.

²² And unto the land it looketh attentively, And lo, adversity and darkness! -- Dimness, distress, and thick darkness is driven away, But not the dimness for which she is in distress!

¹⁹ The way of the wicked `is' as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.

⁷ Deep unto deep is calling At the noise of Thy water-spouts, All Thy breakers and Thy billows passed over me.

³⁴ Dost thou lift up to the cloud thy voice, And abundance of water doth cover thee?

¹⁸ They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

⁶ The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.

¹⁴ By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.