"If he passes through and imprisons someone {and summons the assembly}, then who can hinder him?

{to whom alone} the land was given, and no stranger passed through their midst.

"All of the wicked [one's] days he is writhing, even [through] the number of years that are laid up for the tyrant.

And you ask, 'What does God know? Can he judge through deep gloom?

He digs through houses in the darkness; by day they shut themselves in-- they do not know [the] light

Their survivors are buried through the plague, and their widows do not weep.

when his shining lamp [was] over my head-- by his light I walked through darkness--

Through want and through barren hunger they are gnawing [in the] dry region [in the] darkness of desolation and waste.

As [through] a wide breach they come; amid a crash they rush on.