Amos 5:20
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New International Version (©2011)
Will not the day of the LORD be darkness, not light-- pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?

New Living Translation (©2007)
Yes, the day of the LORD will be dark and hopeless, without a ray of joy or hope.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Is not the day of the LORD darkness, and not light, and gloom with no brightness in it?

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Will not the day of the LORD be darkness instead of light, Even gloom with no brightness in it?

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Won't the Day of the LORD be darkness rather than light, even gloom without any brightness in it?

International Standard Version (©2012)
Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness, and not light— pitch black at that, without a ray of sunshine?"

NET Bible (©2006)
Don't you realize the LORD's day of judgment will bring darkness, not light--gloomy blackness, not bright light?

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The day of the LORD brings darkness and not light. It is pitch black, with no light.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

American King James Version
Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

American Standard Version
Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light: and obscurity, and no brightness in it?

Darby Bible Translation
Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

English Revised Version
Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

Webster's Bible Translation
Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

World English Bible
Won't the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

Young's Literal Translation
Is not the day of Jehovah darkness and not light, Even thick darkness that hath no brightness?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

5:18-27 Woe unto those that desire the day of the Lord's judgments, that wish for times of war and confusion; as some who long for changes, hoping to rise upon the ruins of their country! but this should be so great a desolation, that nobody could gain by it. The day of the Lord will be a dark, dismal, gloomy day to all impenitent sinners. When God makes a day dark, all the world cannot make it light. Those who are not reformed by the judgments of God, will be pursued by them; if they escape one, another stands ready to seize them. A pretence of piety is double iniquity, and so it will be found. The people of Israel copied the crimes of their forefathers. The law of worshipping the Lord our God, is, Him only we must serve. Professors thrive so little, because they have little or no communion with God in their duties. They were led captive by Satan into idolatry, therefore God caused them to go into captivity among idolaters.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 20. - The character of the day of the Lord is enforced with reiterated earnestness (ver. 18) by an appeal to the conscience of e hearers. Do you not feel in your inmost hearts that in the case of such guilt as yours the Lord can visit but to punish?

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light?.... The design of such a question is strongly to affirm, that, in this day of the Lord spoken of, there should be nothing but misery and distress, and no prosperity and happiness, at least to the wicked Israelites, or the unbelieving Jews:

even very dark, and no brightness in it? signifying that there should be no deliverance, nor the least glimmering view or hope of it; that the calamity should be so very great, and the destruction so entire, that there should be no mixture of mercy, nor the least appearance of relief.

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The Coming Judgment
…19As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. 20Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it? 21I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. …

Matthew 24:29 "Immediately after the distress of those days "'the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.'
Isaiah 8:22 Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.
Isaiah 13:10 The stars of heaven and their constellations will not show their light. The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light.
Obadiah 1:15 "The day of the LORD is near for all nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will return upon your own head.
Zephaniah 1:15 That day will be a day of wrath-- a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness--