I am going soon and will never come back--- going to a land that is dark and gloomy,

a land of darkness, shadows, and confusion, where the light itself is darkness.

I have cried until my face is red, and my eyes are swollen and circled with shadows,

They fear the light of day, but darkness holds no terror for them.

Miners explore the deepest darkness. They search the depths of the earth And dig for rocks in the darkness.

Has anyone ever shown you the gates that guard the dark world of the dead?

Even if I go through the deepest darkness, I will not be afraid, LORD, for you are with me. Your shepherd's rod and staff protect me.

Yet you left us helpless among wild animals; you abandoned us in deepest darkness.

Some were living in gloom and darkness, prisoners suffering in chains,

He brought them out of their gloom and darkness and broke their chains in pieces.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. They lived in a land of shadows, but now light is shining on them.

They did not care about me, even though I rescued them from Egypt and led them through the wilderness: a land of deserts and sand pits, a dry and dangerous land where no one lives and no one will even travel.

Honor the LORD, your God, before he brings darkness, and you stumble on the mountains; before he turns into deep darkness the light you hoped for.

The LORD made the stars, the Pleiades and Orion. He turns darkness into daylight and day into night. He calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the earth. His name is the LORD.

The people who live in darkness will see a great light. On those who live in the dark land of death the light will shine."

and to shine from heaven on all those who live in the dark shadow of death, to guide our steps into the path of peace."

"Tell your children how you went and stood at the foot of the mountain which was covered with thick clouds of dark smoke and fire blazing up to the sky.

The day is near, the day when the LORD will act, A day of clouds and trouble for the nations.

in the same way as shepherds take care of their sheep that were scattered and are brought together again. I will bring them back from all the places where they were scattered on that dark, disastrous day.

It will be a dark and gloomy day, a black and cloudy day. The great army of locusts advances like darkness spreading over the mountains. There has never been anything like it, and there never will be again.

You have not come, as the people of Israel came, to what you can feel, to Mount Sinai with its blazing fire, the darkness and the gloom, the storm,

The earth will mourn; the sky will grow dark. The LORD has spoken and will not change his mind. He has made his decision and will not turn back.

I will turn your festivals into funerals and change your glad songs into cries of grief. I will make you shave your heads and wear sackcloth, and you will be like parents mourning for their only child. That day will be bitter to the end.