leaving their tents dark.
lost in the dark, staggering like someone drunk.
Their property and wealth will shrink and disappear.
Those sinners are dragged from the safety of their tents to die a gruesome death.
How often does God become angry and send disaster and darkness to punish sinners?
and the light from his lamp showed me the way through the dark.
You, the LORD God, keep my lamp burning and turn darkness to light.
Evil people are proud and arrogant, but sin is the only crop they produce.
They will soon be gone like the flame of a lamp that burns out.
The lifestyle of the wicked is like total darkness, and they will never know what makes them stumble.
I will cover the whole sky and every star with thick clouds, so that the sun and moon will stop shining.
Lamps will no longer shine anywhere in Babylon, and couples will never again say wedding vows there. Her merchants ruled the earth, and by her witchcraft she fooled all nations.
