² A day of ^(A)darkness and thick darkness,
A day of clouds and dense gloom.
As the dawn is spread over the mountains,
So there is a ^(B)numerous and mighty people;
There has ^(C)never been anything like it,
Nor will there be again after it
For the years from generation to generation.

⁸ He who made the ^(A)Pleiades and Orion
And ^(B)overturns the shadow of death into morning,
^[a]Who also ^(C)darkens day into night,
Who ^(D)calls for the waters of the sea
And pours them out on the surface of the earth,
^(E)Yahweh is His name.