“Prepare(A) war against her;
Arise, and let us go up (B)at noon.
Woe to us, for the day goes away,
For the shadows of the evening are lengthening.

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“Prepare for battle against her!
    Arise, let us attack at noon!(A)
But, alas, the daylight is fading,
    and the shadows of evening grow long.

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“And it shall come to pass in that day,” says the Lord God,
(A)“That I will make the sun go down at noon,
And I will darken the earth in [a]broad daylight;

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:9 Lit. a day of light

“In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord,

“I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.(A)

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