May darkness and the shadow of death claim it; May a cloud settle on it; May the blackness of the day terrify it.

Before I go to the place from which I shall not return, To the land of darkness and the shadow of death,

A land as dark as darkness itself, As the shadow of death, without any order, Where even the light is like darkness.’ ”

He uncovers deep things out of darkness, And brings the shadow of death to light.

My face is flushed from weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

For the morning is the same to them as the shadow of death; If someone recognizes them, They are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

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

There is no darkness nor shadow of death Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

But You have severely broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.

Those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Bound in affliction and irons—

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And broke their chains in pieces.

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.

Neither did they say, ‘Where is the Lord, Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, Who led us through 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?’

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

He made the Pleiades and Orion; He turns the shadow of death into morning And makes the day dark as night; He calls for the waters of the sea And pours them out on the face of the earth; The Lord is His name.

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.”

To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, To guide our feet into the way of peace.”