We will certainly die and be like water poured out on the ground, which can’t be recovered. But God would not take away a life; He would devise plans so that the one banished from Him does not remain banished.

I said: I will never see the Lord,
the Lord in the land of the living;
I will not look on humanity any longer
with the inhabitants of what is passing away.

The land

May darkness and gloom reclaim it,
and a cloud settle over it.
May an eclipse of the sun terrify it.

You have put me in the lowest part of the Pit,
in the darkest places, in the depths.

The shadow

May darkness and gloom reclaim it,
and a cloud settle over it.
May an eclipse of the sun terrify it.

Even when I go through the darkest valley,
I fear no danger,
for You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff—they comfort me.

They stopped asking, “Where is the Lord

who brought us from the land of Egypt,
who led us through the wilderness,
through a land of deserts and ravines,
through a land of drought and darkness,
a land no one traveled through
and where no one lived?”