²⁰ You bring darkness,^(A) it becomes night,^(B)
    and all the beasts of the forest^(C) prowl.

⁷ I form the light and create darkness,^(A)
    I bring prosperity and create disaster;^(B)
    I, the Lord, do all these things.

¹⁶ The day is yours, and yours also the night;
    you established the sun and moon.^(A)

“For three sins of Ammon,^(A)
    even for four, I will not relent.
Because he ripped open the pregnant women^(B) of Gilead
    in order to extend his borders,

¹⁰ even there your hand will guide me,^(A)
    your right hand^(B) will hold me fast.
¹¹ If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
    and the light become night around me,”
¹² even the darkness will not be dark^(C) to you;
    the night will shine like the day,
    for darkness is as light to you.

¹⁰ for every animal of the forest^(A) is mine,
    and the cattle on a thousand hills.^(B)

²² “As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest,^(A)
cold and heat,
summer and winter,^(B)
day and night
will never cease.”^(C)