Darkness: Heavy Afflictions

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

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright—for the gracious, compassionate, and righteous.

Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness, with much sorrow, sickness, and anger.

In that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. If one looks over the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be obscured by clouds.

Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.

Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.