Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; look upon my affliction from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death,

Their soul abhors all kinds of food, and they draw near to the gates of death.

The bands of death have encompassed me, and the distress of Sheol has fallen upon me; I found trouble and sorrow.

Let darkness and the shadow of death redeem it; let a cloud settle on it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

He reveals deep dark mysteries, and brings out the deep darkness into the light of day.

Yea, 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.

Those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and irons;

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke and tore their bonds apart.

He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the deep darkness into morning, and darkens the day into night; who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the face of the earth, Jehovah is His name;

The people who sat in darkness have seen a great Light, and upon those sitting in the region and shadow of death, Light has sprung up.