“On that day,
Says Yahweh God.
‘I will make the sun
Go down at noon.
I will darken the earth
In broad daylight.
I will turn
Your feasts
Into mourning.
I will turn
All your songs
Into lamentations.
I will bring sackcloth
On all loins.
I will bring baldness
On every head.
I will make it
Like the mourning
For an only son.
I will make
The end of it
Like a bitter day.’”
Yahweh said that on the day of Yahweh, the sun would set at noon, so that the earth would be dark during the normal daylight hours. Yahweh was going to turn joyful feasts into times of mourning, since their songs would be lamentations. Everyone would wear sackcloth and be bald. The mourning and weeping would be like for an only son. Yahweh was going to bring an end to a bitter day.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 