When everything is dark

Psalm 42:5–11KJV

⁵Verse 5. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. ⁶Verse 6. O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. ⁷Verse 7. Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. ⁸Verse 8. Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. ⁹Verse 9. I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? ¹⁰Verse 10. As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God? ¹¹Verse 11. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Psalm 88:1–18KJV

¹Verse 1. [A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.] O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: ²Verse 2. Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; ³Verse 3. For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. ⁴Verse 4. I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: ⁵Verse 5. Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. ⁶Verse 6. Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. ⁷Verse 7. Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. ⁸Verse 8. Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. ⁹Verse 9. Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee. ¹⁰Verse 10. Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. ¹¹Verse 11. Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction? ¹²Verse 12. Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? ¹³Verse 13. But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. ¹⁴Verse 14. LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? ¹⁵Verse 15. I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. ¹⁶Verse 16. Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. ¹⁷Verse 17. They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. ¹⁸Verse 18. Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

1 Kings 19:3–9KJV

³Verse 3. And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there. ⁴Verse 4. But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers. ⁵Verse 5. And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat. ⁶Verse 6. And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again. ⁷Verse 7. And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee. ⁸Verse 8. And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God. ⁹Verse 9. And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?

Psalm 34:18KJV

¹⁸Verse 18. The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

2 Corinthians 4:8–9KJV

⁸Verse 8. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; ⁹Verse 9. Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

Lamentations 3:19–24KJV

¹⁹Verse 19. Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. ²⁰Verse 20. My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. ²¹Verse 21. This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. ²²Verse 22. It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. ²³Verse 23. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. ²⁴Verse 24. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.