22 And to the earth he will look, and, lo! distress and darkness,+ obscurity, hard times and gloominess with no brightness.*+

23 I saw the land,* and, look! [it was] empty and waste;+ and into the heavens, and their light was no more.+

10 Before it [the] land has become agitated, [the] heavens have rocked. Sun and moon themselves have become dark,+ and the very stars have withdrawn their brightness.+

9 “‘And it must occur in that day,’ is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah, ‘that I will make the sun go down at high noon,+ and I will cause darkness for the land on a bright day.