Now from the sixth hour, darkness fell upon all the land until the ninth hour.
I clothe the heavens with blackness and make sackcloth their covering.”
“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.
Now it was the third hour when they nailed Him on the stake.
It was the Day of Preparation for Passover, about the sixth hour. And Pilate said to the Judean leaders, “Behold, your king!”
Now Peter and John were going up to the Temple at the ninth hour, the time of prayer.
The fourth angel trumpeted, and a third of the sun and a third of the moon and a third of the stars were struck, so that a third of them were darkened. A third of the day would not shine, as well as a third of the night.
He opened the pit, and smoke rose from the pit like the smoke of a gigantic furnace. The sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.