² He has led me and made me walk
In darkness and not in light.

⁹ Therefore justice is far from us,
Nor does righteousness overtake us;
^(A)We look for light, but there is darkness!
For brightness, but we walk in blackness!

^26 (A)But when I looked for good, evil came to me;
And when I waited for light, then came darkness.

⁵³ They ^[a]silenced my life ^(A)in the pit
And ^(B)threw ^[b]stones at me.
^54 (C)The waters flowed over my head;
^(D)I said, “I am cut off!”

2 How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion
With a ^(A)cloud in His anger!
^(B)He cast down from heaven to the earth
^(C)The beauty of Israel,
And did not remember ^(D)His footstool
In the day of His anger.

^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.