¹⁸ Dark will be the day at Tahpanhes^(A)
    when I break the yoke of Egypt;^(B)
    there her proud strength will come to an end.
She will be covered with clouds,
    and her villages will go into captivity.^(C)

²     a day of darkness^(A) and gloom,^(B)
    a day of clouds^(C) and blackness.^(D)
Like dawn spreading across the mountains
    a large and mighty army^(E) comes,
such as never was in ancient times^(F)
    nor ever will be in ages to come.