(A)a day of darkness and gloom,
    (B)a day of clouds and thick darkness!
Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains
    (C)a great and powerful people;
(D)their like has never been before,
    nor will be again after them
    through the years of all generations.

(E)Fire devours before them,
    and behind them a flame burns.
The land is like (F)the garden of Eden before them,
    but (G)behind them a desolate wilderness,
    and nothing escapes them.

(H)Their appearance is like the appearance of horses,
    and like war horses they run.

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