“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)

²⁸ He sent darkness^(A) and made the land dark—
    for had they not rebelled against^(B) his words?

³ I clothe the heavens with darkness^(A)
    and make sackcloth^(B) its covering.”

⁴ The Sovereign Lord^(C) has given me a well-instructed tongue,^(D)
    to know the word that sustains the weary.^(E)
He wakens me morning by morning,^(F)
    wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.^(G)