Amos 5:18 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹⁸ Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord! Why would you have the day of the Lord? It is darkness, and not light;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord! Why would you want the day of the Lord? It is darkness and not light;

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah! Wherefore would ye have the day of Jehovah? It is darkness, and not light.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Doom to those who desire the day of the LORD! Why do you want the day of the LORD? It is darkness, not light;

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ Woe to those who desire the day of the Lord. What is it to you? The day of the Lord is this: darkness and not light.

Amos 5:18 Cross References

Isaiah 13:6

Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come!

Isaiah 24:18

He who flees at the sound of the terror shall fall into the pit; and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.

Isaiah 5:19

who say: “Let him make haste, let him speed his work that we may see it; let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near, and let it come, that we may know it!”

Isaiah 5:30

They will growl over it on that day, like the roaring of the sea. And if one look to the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened by its clouds.

Isaiah 58:2

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the ordinance of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments, they delight to draw near to God.

Isaiah 8:22

and they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be thrust into thick darkness.

Isaiah 9:19

Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts the land is burned, and the people are like fuel for the fire; no man spares his brother.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the twilight mountains, and while you look for light he turns it into gloom and makes it deep darkness.

Jeremiah 17:15

Behold, they say to me, “Where is the word of the Lord? Let it come!”

Jeremiah 30:7

Alas! that day is so great there is none like it; it is a time of distress for Jacob; yet he shall be saved out of it.

Ezekiel 12:22

“Son of man, what is this proverb that you have about the land of Israel, saying, ‘The days grow long, and every vision comes to naught’?

Ezekiel 12:27

“Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, ‘The vision that he sees is for many days hence, and he prophesies of times far off.’

Joel 1:15

Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.

Joel 2:10

The earth quakes before them, the heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

Joel 2:11

The Lord utters his voice before his army, for his host is exceedingly great; he that executes his word is powerful. For the day of the Lord is great and very terrible; who can endure it?

Joel 2:31

The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.

Obadiah 1:15

For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.

Malachi 4:1

“For behold, the day comes, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

Deuteronomy 32:24

they shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and poisonous pestilence; and I will send the teeth of beasts against them, with venom of crawling things of the dust.

2 Peter 3:10

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up.

2 Peter 3:4

and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation.”