On account of this, judgment is far from us,and righteousness does not overtake us. We wait for light, but, behold, darkness, for brightness, but we walk in gloominess.
Give glory to Jehovah your God before He brings darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains. Yea, while you wait for light, He puts it into death shade, setting up deep gloom.
How the Lord has clouded over the daughter of Zion in His anger! He cast the beauty of Israel down from the heavens to the earth, and did not remember His footstool in the day of His wrath.
And you shall grope at noonday as the blind grope in darkness. And you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall be always oppressed and plundered all the days; and there will be no one to save.
And the ones of the angels not having kept their first place, but having left behind their dwellng place, He has kept in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great Day;