⁹ So justice is far from us,
    and righteousness does not reach us.
We look for light, but all is darkness;^(A)
    for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows.

³⁰ In that day^(A) they will roar over it
    like the roaring of the sea.^(B)
And if one looks at the land,
    there is only darkness^(C) and distress;^(D)
    even the sun will be darkened^(E) by clouds.

¹⁹ But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness;^(A)
    they do not know what makes them stumble.^(B)

“I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.^(A)
10 I will turn your religious festivals^(B) into mourning
    and all your singing into weeping.^(C)
I will make all of you wear sackcloth^(D)
    and shave^(E) your heads.
I will make that time like mourning for an only son^(F)
    and the end of it like a bitter day.^(G)

¹² “Therefore their path will become slippery;^(A)
    they will be banished to darkness
    and there they will fall.
I will bring disaster on them
    in the year they are punished,^(B)”
declares the Lord.