Joe 2:2, Amo 5:20 | ESV | STEP | a day of darkness and gloom , a day of clouds and thick darkness ! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people ; their like has never been before , nor will be again after them through the years of all generations .

e[See ver. 18 above]

Joel 2:2

2 ^aa day of darkness and gloom,
^ba day of clouds and thick darkness!
Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains
^ca great and powerful people;
^dtheir like has never been before,
nor will be again after them
through the years of all generations.

Amos 5:20

20 ^eIs not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light,
and gloom with no brightness in it?