² a day of darkness and gloom,^(A)
a day of clouds and total darkness,^(B)
like the dawn spreading over the mountains;
a great and strong people^(C) appears,
such as never existed in ages past^(D)
and never will again
in all the generations to come.^(E)

¹⁵ That day is a day of wrath,
a day of trouble and distress,
a day of destruction and desolation,
a day of darkness^(A) and gloom,
a day of clouds and total darkness,^(B)