darkness

Death succeedeth to life, dishonour to glory, night to day, and darkness to light; and all things are under the day, just things under life, unjust things under death; wherefore also eternal life awaiteth death.

For the Lord doth not forsake them that fear Him, neither in darkness, nor in bonds, nor in tribulations, nor in necessities.

And when I was in bonds, the Egyptian woman was oppressed with grief, and she came and heard how I gave thanks unto the Lord and sang praises in the abode of darkness, and with glad voice rejoiced, glorifying my God that I was delivered from the lustful desire of the Egyptian woman.

And often hath she sent unto me saying: Consent to fulfil my desire, and I will release thee from thy bonds, and I will free thee from the darkness.

But ye shall carry up my bones with you; for when my bones are being taken up thither, the Lord shall be with you in light, and Beliar shall be in darkness with the Egyptians.

For where there is reverence for good works and light in the mind, even darkness fleeth away from him.

A cloud of darkness shall fall on their eyes; and an air of thick gloom shall darken them:

Let their counsel become thick darkness, and what I have cunningly devised, let it return upon their own heads:

And they grow by the fruits of the trees. And they have changed from darkness to light.

Because He is my Sun and His rays have lifted me up; and His light hath dispelled all darkness from my face.

The treasure-chamber of the light is the sun, and the treasury of the darkness is the night:

And He made the sun for the day that it may be bright, but night brings darkness over the face of the land;

Let not the luminary be conquered by the darkness; nor let truth flee away from falsehood.

And I put off darkness and clothed myself with light,

The abysses were dissolved before the Lord: and darkness was destroyed by His appearance:

And bring us out from the bonds of darkness: and open to us the door by which we shall come out to thee.