²⁶ When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.

¹⁵ Looking for peace -- and there is no good, For a time of healing, and lo, terror.

¹⁹ Hast Thou utterly rejected Judah? Zion hath Thy soul loathed? Wherefore hast Thou smitten us, And there is no healing to us? Looking for peace, and there is no good, And for a time of healing, and lo, terror.

²⁵ For a fear I feared and it meeteth me, And what I was afraid of doth come to me.

²⁶ I was not safe -- nor was I quiet -- Nor was I at rest -- and trouble cometh!

¹² For stayed for good hath the inhabitant of Maroth, For evil hath come down from Jehovah to the gate of Jerusalem.

¹⁸ Why hath my pain been perpetual? And my wound incurable? It hath refused to be healed, Thou art surely to me as a failing stream, Waters not stedfast.

¹⁰ Who `is' among you, fearing Jehovah, Hearkening to the voice of His servant, That hath walked in dark places, And there is no brightness for him? Let him trust in the name of Jehovah, And lean upon his God.

¹¹ Light `is' sown for the righteous, And for the upright of heart -- joy.

¹⁸ And I say, `With my nest I expire, And as the sand I multiply days.'

¹⁷ For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.

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

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.