⁵ May darkness and ^(A)the shadow of death claim it;
May a cloud settle on it;
May the blackness of the day terrify it.

²¹ Before I go to the place from which I shall not return,
^(A)To the land of darkness ^(B)and the shadow of death,
²² A land as dark as darkness itself,
As the shadow of death, without any order,
Where even the light is like darkness.’ ”

^16 (A)Give glory to the Lord your God
Before He causes ^(B)darkness,
And before your feet stumble
On the dark mountains,
And while you are ^(C)looking for light,
He turns it into ^(D)the shadow of death
And makes it dense darkness.

^2 (A)The people who walked in darkness
Have seen a great light;
Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death,
Upon them a light has shined.

³ Man puts an end to darkness,
And searches every recess
For ore in the darkness and the shadow of death.

^79 (A)To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death,
To ^(B)guide our feet into the way of peace.”

^16 (A)The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light,
And upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death
Light has dawned.”

⁶ Neither did they say, ‘Where is the Lord,
Who ^(A)brought us up out of the land of Egypt,
Who led us through ^(B)the wilderness,
Through a land of deserts and pits,
Through a land of drought and the shadow of death,
Through a land that no one crossed
And where no one dwelt?’