Lamentations 3:6

Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!

whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.

You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.

Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

We grope for the wall like the blind. Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were twilight. Among those who are strong, we are like dead men.

“There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit.

Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”

You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.

to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, and don’t set their top among the thick boughs. Their mighty ones don’t stand up on their height, even all who drink water; for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, among the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.’

“Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit.

“Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

For Yahweh of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

But if Yahweh makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.”

So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.

Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn away from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I look Joab your brother in the face?”

Joab said to the man who told him, “Behold, you saw it, and why didn’t you strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten pieces of silver, and a sash.”

the food of his table, the seating of his servants, the attendance of his ministers, their clothing, his cup bearers also, their clothing, and his ascent by which he went up to Yahweh’s house; there was no more spirit in her.

with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”

When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,

let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust.

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.

Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.

My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.

Hear my prayer, God. Listen to the words of my mouth.

For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them.

Listen to my prayer, God. Don’t hide yourself from my supplication.

I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.

But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don’t delay.

God, don’t be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.

Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.

Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.

My eyes fail looking for your salvation, for your righteous word.

Yahweh, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.

Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.

Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.

Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all the glory will be a canopy.

Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.”

I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”

For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.

For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.

Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.

They wander as blind men in the streets. They are polluted with blood, So that men can’t touch their garments.

then I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.

Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are completely cut off.’

“ ‘ “I will make my holy name known among my people Israel. I won’t allow my holy name to be profaned any more. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.

seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.

He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.

Behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, “Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!”

You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades.

men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

They didn’t understand that he spoke to them about the Father.

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”

But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.