I looked at the earth and behold, it was deserted and desolate, and at the heavens and they had no light.
Now the earth was chaos and waste, darkness was on the surface of the deep, and the Ruach Elohim was hovering upon the surface of the water.
For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.
They will roar against them like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress! The light is darkened by the clouds.
Be appalled at this, O heavens! Be utterly horrified and dumbfounded.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair for jackals. I will make the cities of Judah a wasteland without inhabitant.
He has driven me and made me walk in darkness and not light.
Before them land quakes, heaven trembles, sun and moon become dark, stars withdraw their brightness.
“It will be in that day” —declares my Lord Adonai— “I will make the sun go down at noon, yes, I will darken the earth in daylight.
In that day there will be no light, cold or frost.
“But immediately after the trouble of those days, ‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light and the stars will fall from heaven and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
Then I saw a great white throne, and the One seated on it. The earth and heaven fled from His presence, but no place was found for them.