valley of shadow of death
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4For, even if I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils. For you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they have given me consolation.
6And they have not said: ‘Where is the Lord, who caused us to ascend from the land of Egypt; who led us through the desert, through an uninhabited and impassable land, through a land of drought and of the image of death, through a land in which no one walked and in which no man lived?’
21before I depart and return no more to a land that is dark and covered with the fog of death, 22a land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and nothing else but everlasting horror, dwells.
2The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. A light has risen for the inhabitants of the region of the shadow of death.
8The Maker of Arcturus and Orion, who turns darkness into daybreak and who changes day into night; who calls forth the waters of the sea and who pours them out over the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.
16A people who were sitting in darkness have seen a great light. And unto those sitting in the region of the shadow of death, a light has risen.”
19And our heart has not turned back. And you have not diverted our steps from your way.
1A Psalm of David. The Lord directs me, and nothing will be lacking to me. 2He has settled me here, in a place of pasture. He has led me out to the water of refreshment. 3He has converted my soul. He has led me away on the paths of justice, for the sake of his name. 4For, even if I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils. For you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they have given me consolation. 5You have prepared a table in my sight, opposite those who trouble me. You have anointed my head with oil, and my cup, which inebriates me, how brilliant it is! 6And your mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and so may I dwell in the house of the Lord for length of days.
10those sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death, shackled by extreme poverty and by iron.
14And he led them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and he broke apart their chains.
17Have the gates of death been opened to you, and have you seen the doors of darkness?
79to illuminate those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, and to direct our feet in the way of peace.”