'Deep Darkness' in the Bible

“Let darkness and gloom claim it for their own;Let a cloud settle upon it;Let all that blackens the day terrify it (the day that I was born).

before I go, never to return, leaving for the land of deep darkness and shadow.

“He reveals mysteries from the darknessAnd brings the deep darkness into light.

My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.

But you have said, 'What does God know? Does he judge through such deep darkness?

“For the morning is the same to him as the thick darkness [of midnight];For he is familiar with the terrors of thick darkness.

“Man puts an end to darkness [by bringing in a light],And to the farthest bounds he searches outThe rock buried in gloom and deep shadow.

There is no darkness, no deep darkness,where evildoers can hide themselves.

“Have the gates of death been revealed to you,Or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?

Even when I walk through a valley of deep darkness, I will not be afraid because you are with me. Your rod and your staff they comfort me.

Yet You have [distressingly] crushed us in the place of jackalsAnd covered us with [the deep darkness of] the shadow of death.

The way of the wicked is like [deep] darkness;They do not know over what they stumble.

Whoever curses his father or mother—his lamp will go out in deep darkness.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; for those living in a land of deep darkness, a light has shined upon them.

On that day the deaf will hearthe words of a document,and out of a deep darknessthe eyes of the blind will see.

Who among you fears the Lord? Who obeys his servant? Whoever walks in deep darkness, without light, should trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.

"So justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We wait for light, but look there is darkness; we wait for brightness, but we walk in deep darkness.

For, look, darkness covers the earth and deep darkness covers the nations, but the Lord shines on you; his splendor appears over you.

“They did not say, ‘Where is the LordWho brought us up from the land of Egypt,Who led us through the wilderness,Through a land of deserts and of pits,Through a land of drought and of the deep darkness [of the shadow of death],Through a land that no man passed throughAnd where no man lived?’

“O generation [that you are], consider and regard carefully the word of the Lord.Have I been a wilderness to Israel [like a land without food],A land of thick and deep darkness [like a path without light]?Why do My people say, ‘We [have broken loose and we] are free to roam [at will];We will no longer come to You’?

Give glory to the LORD your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight. You hope for light, but he turns it into deep darkness. He changes it into heavy gloom.

He who made the [cluster of stars called] Pleiades and [the constellation] Orion,Who turns deep darkness into the morningAnd darkens the day into night,Who calls for the waters of the seaAnd pours them out on the surface of the earth,The Lord is His name.