²     a day of darkness and no light,
    a day of clouds and thick darkness!
Like blackness spread out upon the mountains,
    a great and powerful army^[a] comes,
        unlike any that has ever come before them,
        or will come after them in centuries ahead.

¹⁰ The earth quakes before them;
    the heavens shake.
The sun and the moon are darkened;
    the stars have stopped shining,