7 The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds. 8 Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt. 9 And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
Amos 8:7–9
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