'Darkness' in the Bible

For look, the wicked are bending the bow;They take aim with their arrow on the stringTo shoot [by stealth] in darkness at the upright in heart.

Consider and answer me, O Lord my God;Give light (life) to my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death,

He bowed the heavens also and came down;And thick darkness was under His feet.

He made darkness His hiding place (covering); His pavilion (canopy) around Him,The darkness of the waters, the thick clouds of the skies.

For You cause my lamp to be lighted and to shine;The Lord my God illumines my darkness.

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

The rulers do not know nor do they understand;They walk on in the darkness [of complacent satisfaction];All the foundations of the earth [the fundamental principles of the administration of justice] are shaken.

You have laid me in the lowest pit,In dark places, in the depths.

Lover and friend You have placed far from me;My familiar friends are in darkness.

Nor of the pestilence that stalks in darkness,Nor of the destruction (sudden death) that lays waste at noon.

Clouds and thick darkness surround Him [as at Sinai];Righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.

You [O Lord] make darkness and it becomes night,In which prowls about every wild beast of the forest.

He sent [thick, oppressive] darkness and made the land dark;And Moses and Aaron did not rebel against His words.

Some dwelt in darkness and in the deep (deathly) darkness,Prisoners [bound] in misery and chains,

He brought them out of darkness and the deep (deathly) darknessAnd broke their bonds apart.

Light arises in the darkness for the upright;He is gracious and compassionate and righteous (upright—in right standing with God).

If I say, “Surely the darkness will cover me,And the night will be the only light around me,”

Even the darkness is not dark to You and conceals nothing from You,But the night shines as bright as the day;Darkness and light are alike to You.

My frame was not hidden from You,When I was being formed in secret,And intricately and skillfully formed [as if embroidered with many colors] in the depths of the earth.