⁵ May gloom and utter darkness^(A) claim it once more;
    may a cloud settle over it;
    may blackness overwhelm it.

²¹ before I go to the place of no return,^(A)
    to the land of gloom and utter darkness,^(B)

²² to the land of deepest night,
    of utter darkness^(A) and disorder,
    where even the light is like darkness.”^(B)

¹⁷ For all of them, midnight is their morning;
    they make friends with the terrors^(A) of darkness.^(B)

¹⁹ But you crushed^(A) us and made us a haunt for jackals;^(B)
    you covered us over with deep darkness.^(C)