The Lord has sworn(A) by the Pride of Jacob:[a](B)

I will never forget all their deeds.(C)
Because of this, won’t the land quake(D)
and all who dwell in it mourn?(E)
All of it will rise like the Nile;(F)
it will surge and then subside
like the Nile in Egypt.(G)

And in that day—
this is the declaration of the Lord God
I will make the sun go down at noon;(H)
I will darken the land in the daytime.(I)

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Footnotes

  1. 8:7 = the Lord or the promised land

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