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The Book of Ezekiel, Chapter 32, Verse 8

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And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
King James Version
All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
American Standard Version
All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord Jehovah.
New English Translation
I will darken all the lights in the sky over you, and I will darken your land, declares the Sovereign LORD.
World English Bible
All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh.
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I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.
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Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at [every] moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.
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For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.
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By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.
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I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
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Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.
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When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I [am] the LORD.
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This [is] the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, [even] for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
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It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, [even] her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.