They meet with darkness in the daytime, ¹  and grope about ²  in the noontime as if it were night. ³ 

They grope about in darkness ¹  without light; he makes them stagger ²  like drunkards.

The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished. ¹ 

He is driven ¹  from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

They sat in utter darkness, ¹  bound in painful iron chains, ² 

who leave ¹  the upright ²  paths to walk on the dark ³  ways,

He drove me into captivity ¹  and made me walk ²  in darkness and not light.

¹ The Lord said to Moses, “Extend your hand toward heaven ²  so that there may be ³  darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness so thick it can be felt.” ⁴ 

At that time ¹  they will growl over their prey, ²  it will sound like sea waves crashing against rocks. ³  One will look out over the land and see the darkness of disaster, clouds will turn the light into darkness. ⁴ 

He shrouded himself in darkness, ¹  in thick rain clouds. ² 

before I depart, never to return, ¹  to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow, ² 

He reveals the deep things of darkness, and brings deep shadows ¹  into the light.

These men ¹  change ²  night into day; they say, ³  ‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’ ⁴ 

He has blocked ¹  my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness ²  over my paths.

why it is so dark you cannot see, ¹  and why a flood ²  of water covers you.

Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face. ¹ 

when ¹  he caused ²  his lamp ³  to shine upon my head, and by his light I walked ⁴  through darkness; ⁵ 

There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves. ¹ 

Tell us what we should ¹  say to him. We cannot prepare a case ²  because of the darkness.

May their path be ¹  dark and slippery, as the Lord’s angel chases them!