Helaman 5:28
~30 BC
1830 Edition
And it came to pass that they were overshadowed with a cloud of darkness, and an awful, solemn fear came upon them.
Influences
KJV Preface-1776
For whereas it was the expectation of many, who wished not well unto our [Sion], that upon the setting of that bright [Occidental Star], Queen [Elizabeth] of most happy memory, some thick and palpable clouds of darkness would so have overshadowed this Land, that men should have been in doubt which way they were to walk;
Changes
And it came to pass that they were overshadowed with a cloud of darkness, and an awful, solemn fear came upon them.
Simple English
They were covered with a cloud of darkness. A terrible, serious fear came over them.
Paraphrase
Then they were covered by a cloud of darkness, and a terrible, heavy fear fell on them.