Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
before I go, never to return, to the land of gloom and deep darkness,
It is higher than heaven—what can you do? Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
He uncovers deep things from the darkness and brings deep darkness to light.
Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds settle upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.
Some sat in darkness and in gloom, prisoners in misery and in irons,
he brought them out of darkness and gloom, and broke their bonds apart.
they loathed any kind of food, and they drew near to the gates of death.
The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.
Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Be gracious to me, O Lord. See what I suffer from those who hate me; you are the one who lifts me up from the gates of death,
The one who made the Pleiades and Orion and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the water of the sea and pours it out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name,
the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death light has dawned.”
and the Living One. I was dead, and see, I am alive forever and ever, and I have the keys of Death and of Hades.