⁸     Will not the land tremble on this account,
        and all who live in it mourn,
    as it rises and overflows like the Nile,
        and then falls again, like the River of Egypt?^[a]

⁹     On that day, says the Lord God,
        I will make the sun go down at noon,
        and I will darken the earth in broad daylight.
¹⁰ I will turn your feasts into sad affairs
        and all your singing into a funeral song;
    I will make people wear mourning clothes
        and shave their heads;
    I will make it like the loss of an only child,
        and the end of it like a bitter day.