your light is darkened, so that you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.
water closed over my head; I said, ‘I am lost.’
For thou didst cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood was round about me; all thy waves and thy billows passed over me.
He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.”
he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light;
and they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be thrust into thick darkness.
The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble.
Deep calls to deep at the thunder of thy cataracts; all thy waves and thy billows have gone over me.
“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that a flood of waters may cover you?
He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.
The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.
You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away.
“You say, ‘They are swiftly carried away upon the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the land; no treader turns toward their vineyards.