Have mercy upon me, O Lord; look upon my affliction [which I suffer] from my enemies, You that lift me up from the gates of death:

Their soul abhorred all food; and they drew near to the gates of death.

The pangs of death compassed me; the dangers of hell found me; I found affliction and sorrow.

But let darkness and the shadow of death seize it; let blackness come upon it.

Revealing deep things out of darkness: and He has brought into light the shadow of death.

Yea, though I walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

[even] them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death, fettered in poverty and irons;

And He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their chains in pieces.

who makes all things, and changes [them], and turns darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night; who calls for the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth: the Lord is His name;

the people sitting in darkness have seen a great light, and to those who sat in the land and the shadow of death, light sprang up on them."