Lexicon :: Strong's H2821 - ḥāšaḵ

“Let the stars of its early dawn be dark;

Let the morning wait in vain for the light,

Let it not see the eyelids of morning (the day’s dawning),

“The light will be dark in his tent,

And his lamp beside him will be put out.

“Who is this that darkens counsel [questioning my authority and wisdom]

By words without knowledge?

May their eyes be dimmed so that they cannot see,

And make their loins shake continually [in terror and weakness].

He sent [thick, oppressive] darkness and made the land dark;

And Moses and Aaron did not rebel against His words.

Even the darkness is not dark to You and conceals nothing from You,

But the night shines as bright as the day;

Darkness and light are alike to You.

And in that day they will roar against them (Judah) like the roaring of the sea.

And if one looks to the land, in fact, there is darkness and distress;

Even the light will be darkened by its clouds.

For the stars of heaven and their constellations

Will not flash with their light;

The sun will be dark when it rises,

And the moon will not shed its light.

Give glory to the LORD your God,

Before He brings darkness

And before your feet stumble

On the dark and shadowy mountains,

And while you are longing for light

He turns it into the shadow of death,

And makes it into thick darkness.

Their appearance is [now] blacker than soot [because of the prolonged famine];

They are not recognized in the streets;

Their skin clings to their bones;

It is withered, and it has become [dry] like wood.

Because of this our heart is faint,

Because of these things our eyes are dim.

“In Tehaphnehes the day will be dark

When I break the yoke bars and dominion of Egypt there.

Then the pride of her power will come to an end;

A cloud [of disasters] will cover her,

And her daughters will go into captivity.

He who made the [cluster of stars called] Pleiades and [the constellation] Orion,

Who turns deep darkness into the morning

And darkens the day into night,

Who calls for the waters of the sea

And pours them out on the surface of the earth,

The LORD is His name.

“It shall come about in that day,” says the Lord GOD,

“That I shall cause the sun to go down at noon,

And I shall darken the earth in broad daylight.

Therefore it will be night (tragedy) for you—without vision,

And darkness (cataclysm) for you—without foresight.

The sun shall go down on the [false] prophets,

And the day shall become dark and black over them.