May their path be dark and slippery, as the Lord's angel chases them!

Remember your covenant promises, for the dark regions of the earth are full of places where violence rules.

In your distress you called out and I rescued you. I answered you from a dark thundercloud. I tested you at the waters of Meribah. (Selah)

They neither know nor understand. They stumble around in the dark, while all the foundations of the earth crumble.

You place me in the lowest regions of the pit, in the dark places, in the watery depths.

Are your amazing deeds experienced in the dark region, or your deliverance in the land of oblivion?

Dark clouds surround him; equity and justice are the foundation of his throne.

You make it dark and night comes, during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.

He made it dark; they did not disobey his orders.

even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you.

Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.