He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has made my chains heavy;
he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked.
You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;
Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths.
The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble.
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
Therefore their way shall be to them like slippery paths in the darkness, into which they shall be driven and fall, for I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment, declares the Lord.
Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the twilight mountains, and while you look for light he turns it into gloom and makes it deep darkness.
Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the voice of his servant? Let him who walks in darkness and has no light trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.
But when I hoped for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came.
And when they cried to the Lord, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians and made the sea come upon them and cover them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. And you lived in the wilderness a long time.
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