But when I hoped for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came.
We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror.
Have you utterly rejected Judah? Does your soul loathe Zion? Why have you struck us down so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror.
For the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me. I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, but trouble comes.”
For the inhabitants of Maroth wait anxiously for good, because disaster has come down from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.
Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the voice of his servant? Let him who walks in darkness and has no light trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.
Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart.
Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?
Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand,
yet I am not silenced because of the darkness, nor because thick darkness covers my face.
He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
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.
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