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For look, the wicked are bending the bow; They take aim with their arrow on the string To shoot [by stealth] in darkness at the upright in heart.
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He bowed the heavens also and came down; And thick darkness was under His feet.
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He made darkness His hiding place (covering); His pavilion (canopy) around Him, The darkness of the waters, the thick clouds of the skies.
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For You cause my lamp to be lighted and to shine; The Lord my God illumines my darkness.
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Yet You have [distressingly] crushed us in the place of jackals And covered us with [the deep darkness of] the shadow of death.
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The rulers do not know nor do they understand; They walk on in the darkness [of complacent satisfaction]; All the foundations of the earth [the fundamental principles of the administration of justice] are shaken.
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Will Your wonders be known in the darkness? And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness [where the dead forget and are forgotten]?
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Lover and friend You have placed far from me; My familiar friends are in darkness.
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Nor of the pestilence that stalks in darkness, Nor of the destruction (sudden death) that lays waste at noon.
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Clouds and thick darkness surround Him [as at Sinai]; Righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.
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You [O Lord] make darkness and it becomes night, In which prowls about every wild beast of the forest.
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He sent [thick, oppressive] darkness and made the land dark; And Moses and Aaron did not rebel against His words.
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Some dwelt in darkness and in the deep (deathly) darkness, Prisoners [bound] in misery and chains,
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He brought them out of darkness and the deep (deathly) darkness And broke their bonds apart.
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Light arises in the darkness for the upright; He is gracious and compassionate and righteous (upright—in right standing with God).
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If I say, “Surely the darkness will cover me, And the night will be the only light around me,”
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Even the darkness is not dark to You and conceals nothing from You, But the night shines as bright as the day; Darkness and light are alike to You.
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When my spirit was overwhelmed and weak within me [wrapped in darkness], You knew my path. In the way where I walk They have hidden a trap for me.
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Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed and weak within me [wrapped in darkness]; My heart grows numb within me.