⁷     The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob:
        Surely I will never forget what they have done.
⁸     Will not the land tremble on this account,
        and all who live in it mourn,
    as it rises and overflows like the Nile,
        and then falls again, like the River of Egypt?^[a]

⁹     On that day, says the Lord God,
        I will make the sun go down at noon,
        and I will darken the earth in broad daylight.