the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness.”
And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’
Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the twilight mountains, and while you look for light he turns it into gloom and makes it deep darkness.
They did not say, ‘Where is the Lord who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that none passes through, where no man dwells?’
Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
yet you have broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.
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.
Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.
Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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