3 He has established a time for darkness, and he has settled on an end for all things, as well as for the stone that is in the gloom and shadow of death.
4 The burning separates a pilgrim people from those who have been forgotten by the feet of the destitute man and from the unapproachable.
5 The land, where bread appeared in its place, has been destroyed by fire.
6 Its stones are embedded with sapphires, and its soil, with gold.
7 The bird does not know its path, nor has the eye of the vulture beheld it.
8 The sons of merchants have not walked there, nor has the lioness traveled through it.
9 He has stretched out his hand to the rocks; he has overturned the foundations of the mountains.