For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, And what I dreaded has happened to me.

I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, for trouble comes."

"Then I said, 'I shall die in my nest, And multiply [my] days as the sand.

"[We] looked for peace, but no good [came;] And for a time of health, and there was trouble!

Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You stricken us so that [there is] no healing for us? We looked for peace, but [there was] no good; And for the time of healing, and there was trouble.

Why is my pain perpetual And my wound incurable, [Which] refuses to be healed? Will You surely be to me like an unreliable stream, [As] waters [that] fail?

For the inhabitant of Maroth pined for good, But disaster came down from the LORD To the gate of Jerusalem.

The light is dark in his tent, And his lamp beside him is put out.

He is driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

Because I was not cut off from the presence of darkness, And He did [not] hide deep darkness from my face.

Light is sown for the righteous, And gladness for the upright in heart.

" Who among you fears the LORD? Who obeys the voice of His Servant? Who walks in darkness And has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD And rely upon his God.