8:7 The Lord confirms this oath 1 by the arrogance of Jacob: 2
“I swear 3 I will never forget all you have done! 4
8:8 Because of this the earth 5 will quake, 6
and all who live in it will mourn.
The whole earth 7 will rise like the River Nile, 8
it will surge upward 9 and then grow calm, 10 like the Nile in Egypt. 11
8:9 In that day,” says the sovereign Lord, “I will make the sun set at noon,
and make the earth dark in the middle of the day. 12
8:10 I will turn your festivals into funerals, 13
and all your songs into funeral dirges.
I will make everyone wear funeral clothes 14
and cause every head to be shaved bald. 15
I will make you mourn as if you had lost your only son; 16
when it ends it will indeed have been a bitter day. 17