And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
In that day ... I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
"Darkness" made to rise "at noon" is the emblem of great calamities (Jeremiah 15:9; Ezekiel 32:7-10). Archbishop Usher refers the prophecy to an eclipse of the sun in the feast of Pentecost, 791 BC; the feast of tabernacles, 771 BC; and the Passover, 771 BC But Micah 3:6, "The sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them," shows that the image is that of a sudden reverse (Pusey).