May that day be darkness: may God above not care for it, may light not shine upon it!
Perish the day on which I was born, the night when they said, “The child is a boy!”
May darkness and gloom claim it, clouds settle upon it, blackness of day affright it!
a day of darkness and gloom, a day of thick clouds! Like dawn spreading over the mountains, a vast and mighty army! Nothing like it has ever happened in ages past, nor will the future hold anything like it, even to the most distant generations.
Woe to those who yearn for the day of the Lord! What will the day of the Lord mean for you? It will be darkness, not light!
From noon onward, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.
Neither the sun nor the stars were visible for many days, and no small storm raged. Finally, all hope of our surviving was taken away.
a land which the Lord, your God, looks after; the eyes of the Lord, your God, are upon it continually through the year, from beginning to end.
The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast. Its kingdom was plunged into darkness, and people bit their tongues in pain