And when neither sun nor stars shone upon {\i us} for many days, and no small tempest lay on {\i us}, all hope that we should be saved was now taken away.
a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the dawn spread upon the mountains; a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.