³ By me the heavens are clothed with black, and I make haircloth their robe.

¹² And I saw when the sixth stamp was undone, and there was a great earth-shock; and the sun became black as haircloth, and all the moon became as blood;

²¹ And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out to heaven, and all the land of Egypt will be dark, so that men will be feeling their way about in the dark.

¹¹ He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

¹² Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and fire.

⁴⁵ Now from the sixth hour it was dark over all the land till the ninth hour.