But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hope
For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.
Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of His Servant? Who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let h
He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.
Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.
Light shines on the righteous, gladness on the upright in heart.
So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.
Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me—water
He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.