Though the stillborn child ¹  came into the world ²  for no reason ³  and departed into darkness, though its name is shrouded in darkness, ⁴ 

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.

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 

He brought them out of the utter darkness, ¹  and tore off their shackles.

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 

Those who call evil good and good evil are as good as dead, ¹  who turn darkness into light and light into darkness, who turn bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter. ² 

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

Indeed, ¹  you are my lamp, ²  Lord. The Lord illumines ³  the darkness around me. ⁴ 

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 

If ¹  I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

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