When that day comes, they will roar over Israel as loudly as the sea. Look at this country! Darkness and distress! The light is swallowed by darkness.

or stare at the ground, but they will see nothing but trouble and darkness, terrifying darkness into which they are being driven.

People shout in the streets because there is no more wine. Happiness is gone forever; it has been banished from the land.

The city is in ruins, and its gates have been broken down.

Other nations will be covered by darkness, But on you the light of the LORD will shine; The brightness of his presence will be with you.

Honor the LORD, your God, before he brings darkness, and you stumble on the mountains; before he turns into deep darkness the light you hoped for.

It will be a dark and gloomy day, a black and cloudy day. The great army of locusts advances like darkness spreading over the mountains. There has never been anything like it, and there never will be again.

How terrible it will be for you who long for the day of the LORD! What good will that day do you? For you it will be a day of darkness and not of light.

At noon the whole country was covered with darkness, which lasted for three hours.

the sun will be darkened, and the moon will turn red as blood, before the great and glorious Day of the Lord comes.

With their bows and arrows they will kill the young men. They will show no mercy to babies and take no pity on children.

And I heard God say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and kill. Spare no one; have mercy on no one.

There is not an honest person left in the land, no one loyal to God. Everyone is waiting for a chance to commit murder. Everyone hunts down their own people.

In these times sons treat their fathers like fools, daughters oppose their mothers, and young women quarrel with their mothers-in-law; your enemies are the members of your own family.

God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell, where they are kept chained in darkness, waiting for the Day of Judgment.