^2 (A)a day of darkness and gloom,
    ^(B)a day of clouds and thick darkness!
Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains
    ^(C)a great and powerful people;
^(D)their like has never been before,
    nor will be again after them
    through the years of all generations.

⁶ For ^(A)a nation has come up against my land,
    ^(B)powerful and beyond number;
^(C)its teeth are lions' teeth,
    and it has the fangs of a lioness.

^11 (A)The Lord utters his voice
    before ^(B)his army,
for his camp is exceedingly great;
    ^(C)he who executes his word is powerful.
^(D)For the day of the Lord is ^(E)great and very awesome;
    ^(F)who can endure it?

²⁵ I will restore to you the years
    that ^(A)the swarming locust has eaten,
^(B)the hopper, ^(C)the destroyer, and ^(D)the cutter,
    ^(E)my great army, which I sent among you.