5  Let ^ugloom and deep darkness claim it.

Let clouds dwell upon it;

let the blackness of the day terrify it.

10  Some ^tsat in ^udarkness and in the shadow of death,

prisoners in affliction and in irons,

2  ^{1 w}The people who walked in darkness

have seen a great light;

those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness,

on them has light shone.

16  Give glory to the Lord your God

before he brings darkness,

before your feet stumble

on the twilight mountains,

and while you ^glook for light

he turns it into gloom

and makes it deep darkness.

8  He who made the ^sPleiades and Orion,

and ^tturns deep darkness into the morning

and ^udarkens the day into night,

^vwho calls for the waters of the sea

and pours them out on the surface of the earth,

^wthe Lord is his name;