Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.
Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
“Therefore their path will become slick; they will be driven away into the darkness and fall into it. For I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.
Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of His Servant? Who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD; let him lean on his God.
Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
So your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, over whom He brought the sea and engulfed them. Your very eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.