^2 (A)a day of darkness and gloom,
    ^(B)a day of clouds and thick darkness!
Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains
    ^(C)a great and powerful people;
^(D)their like has never been before,
    nor will be again after them
    through the years of all generations.

^15 (A)A day of wrath is that day,
    a day of distress and anguish,
a day of ^(B)ruin and devastation,
    ^(C)a day of darkness and gloom,
^(D)a day of clouds and thick darkness,