^19 (A)The way of the wicked is like darkness;
They do not know what makes them stumble.

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!
^10 (B)We grope for the wall like the blind,
And we grope as if we had no eyes;
We stumble at noonday as at twilight;
We are as dead men in desolate places.

¹² “Therefore^(A) their way shall be to them
Like slippery ways;
In the darkness they shall be driven on
And fall in them;
For I ^(B)will bring disaster on them,
The year of their punishment,” says the Lord.

^9 (A)He will guard the feet of His saints,
But the ^(B)wicked shall be silent in 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.