Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageFor these people dawn brings only dread — morning itself feels like death's own shadow, because they have long made friends with its terrors.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GFor morning is to them as the shadow of death; for they are companions of the terrors of the shadow of death.
KJV
King James VersionFor the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleFor to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!
Footnotes
*Tsalmaveth* is one of Hebrew poetry's most resonant compound words — 'shadow of death' or 'deep darkness' (cf. Ps. 23:4, 'the valley of the shadow of death'). The wicked now experience the very terror that the righteous pass through with confidence. Their intimacy with darkness has made light itself a threat — a perfect inversion of Ps. 23. FOG repeats the word twice to echo the Hebrew emphasis; FOG Message draws out the psychological and spiritual reversal.