²² A land as dark as darkness itself,
As the shadow of death, without any order,
Where even the light is like darkness.’ ”

^16 (A)Give glory to the Lord your God
Before He causes ^(B)darkness,
And before your feet stumble
On the dark mountains,
And while you are ^(C)looking for light,
He turns it into ^(D)the shadow of death
And makes it dense darkness.

⁶ Neither did they say, ‘Where is the Lord,
Who ^(A)brought us up out of the land of Egypt,
Who led us through ^(B)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?’

¹² Shall Your wonders be known in the dark?
And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

¹⁹ But You have severely broken us in ^(A)the place of jackals,
And covered us ^(B)with the shadow of death.

¹⁷ Have ^(A)the gates of death been ^[a]revealed to you?
Or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?

^22 (A)There is no darkness nor shadow of death
Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

⁵ May darkness and ^(A)the shadow of death claim it;
May a cloud settle on it;
May the blackness of the day terrify it.