אֹ֫פֶל

If only darkness had taken that night away! May it not appear among the days of the year; may it never be entered in any of the months.

…to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

Man puts an end to the darkness; he probes the farthest recesses for ore in deepest darkness.

But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.

For behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrow on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.

…nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the calamity that destroys at noon.

On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.