Amos 5:8
Good News Translation
The LORD made the stars, the Pleiades and Orion. He turns darkness into daylight and day into night. He calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the earth. His name is the LORD.

New Revised Standard Version
The one who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the LORD is his name,

Contemporary English Version
But the LORD created the stars and put them in place. He turns darkness to dawn and daylight to darkness; he scoops up the ocean and empties it on the earth.

New American Bible
Who makes destruction fall suddenly upon the stronghold and brings ruin upon the fortress, the LORD is his name.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Seek him that maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and that turneth darkness into morning, and that changeth day into night: that calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Seek him that maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and that turneth darkness into morning, and that changeth day into night: that calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.

maketh.

Job 9:9 Who maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the inner parts of the south.

Job 38:31,32 Shalt thou be able to join together the shining stars the Pleiades, or canst thou stop the turning about of Arcturus? . . .

and turneth.

Job 12:22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth up to light the shadow of death.

Job 38:12,13 Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place? . . .

Psalm 107:10-14 Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death: bound in want and in iron. . . .

Matthew 4:16 The people that sat in darkness, hath seen great light: and to them that sat in the region of the shadow of death, light is sprung up.

Luke 1:79 To enlighten them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death: to direct our feet into the way of peace.

maketh.

Amos 4:13 For behold he that formeth the mountains and createth the wind, and declareth his word to man, he that maketh the morning mist, and walketh upon the high places of the earth: the Lord the God of hosts is his name.

Amos 8:9 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein: and rise up altogether as a river, and be cast out, and run down as the river of Egypt?

Exodus 10:21-23 And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch out thy hand towards heaven: and may there be darkness upon the land of Egypt so thick that it may be felt. . . .

Exodus 14:24-28 And now the morning watch was come, and behold the Lord looking upon the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, slew their host. . . .

Psalm 104:20 Thou hast appointed darkness, and it is night: in it shall all the beasts of the woods go about:

Psalm 105:28 He sent darkness, and made it obscure: and grieved not his words.

Isaiah 59:10 We have groped for the wall, and like the blind we have groped as if we had no eyes: we have stumbled at noonday as in darkness, we are in dark places, as dead men.

that calleth.

Amos 9:6 And the Lord the God of hosts is he who toucheth the earth, and it shall melt: and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up as a river, and shall run down as the river of Egypt.

Genesis 7:11-20 In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened: . . .

1 Kings 18:44,45 And at the seventh time: Behold a little cloud arose out of the sea like a man's foot. And he said: Go up, and say to Achab: Prepare thy chariot, and go down, lest the rain prevent thee. . . .

Job 37:13 Whether in one tribe, or in his own land, or in what place soever of his mercy he shall command them to be found.

Job 38:34 Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that an abundance of waters may cover thee?

The Lord.

Amos 4:13 For behold he that formeth the mountains and createth the wind, and declareth his word to man, he that maketh the morning mist, and walketh upon the high places of the earth: the Lord the God of hosts is his name.

Context
A Call to Repentance
7You that turn judgment into wormwood, and forsake justice in the land, 8Seek him that maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and that turneth darkness into morning, and that changeth day into night: that calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.9He that with a smile bringeth destruction upon the strong, and waste upon the mighty.…
Cross References
Job 9:9
Who maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the inner parts of the south.

Job 12:22
He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth up to light the shadow of death.

Job 38:12
Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place?

Job 38:31
Shalt thou be able to join together the shining stars the Pleiades, or canst thou stop the turning about of Arcturus?

Psalm 104:6
The deep like a garment is its clothing: above the mountains shall the waters stand.

Psalm 104:20
Thou hast appointed darkness, and it is night: in it shall all the beasts of the woods go about:

Isaiah 42:16
And I will lead the blind into the way which they know not: and in the paths which they were ignorant of I will make them walk: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight: these things have I done to them, and have not forsaken them.

Jeremiah 16:21
Therefore behold I will this once cause them to know, I will shew them my hand and my power: and they shall know that my name is the Lord.

Amos 4:13
For behold he that formeth the mountains and createth the wind, and declareth his word to man, he that maketh the morning mist, and walketh upon the high places of the earth: the Lord the God of hosts is his name.

Amos 8:9
Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein: and rise up altogether as a river, and be cast out, and run down as the river of Egypt?

Amos 9:6
And the Lord the God of hosts is he who toucheth the earth, and it shall melt: and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up as a river, and shall run down as the river of Egypt.

Amos 5:7
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