²⁸ For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.

⁷ Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.

²⁶ When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

³⁰ And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

⁹ Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

² He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.