²⁰ Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light?
Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it?

¹⁰ For the stars of heaven and their constellations
Will not give their light;
The sun will be ^(A)darkened in its going forth,
And the moon will not cause its light to shine.

^15 (A)That day is a day of wrath,
A day of trouble and distress,
A day of devastation and desolation,
A day of darkness and gloominess,
A day of clouds and thick darkness,

²¹ Before I go to the place from which I shall not return,
^(A)To the land of darkness ^(B)and the shadow of death,
²² A land as dark as darkness itself,
As the shadow of death, without any order,
Where even the light is like darkness.’ ”

⁸ But with an overflowing flood
He will make an utter end of its place,
And darkness will pursue His enemies.

⁴ May that day be darkness;
May God above not seek it,
Nor the light shine upon it.
⁵ May darkness and ^(A)the shadow of death claim it;
May a cloud settle on it;
May the blackness of the day terrify it.
⁶ As for that night, may darkness seize it;
May it not ^[a]rejoice among the days of the year,
May it not come into the number of the months.