Let their way be dark and slippery, and the agent of LORD pursuing them.

I will incline my ear to a parable. I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

Have respect to the covenant, for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.

I will open my mouth in parable{s (LXX/NT)}. I will utter dark sayings of old,

Thou have laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps.

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark, and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

He sent darkness, and made it dark. And they rebelled against his words.

For the enemy has persecuted my soul. He has smitten my life down to the ground. He has made me to dwell in dark places as those who have been long dead.