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.

Cross References

Job 12:22

He sends light to places dark as death.

Job 37:13

God sends rain to water the earth; he may send it to punish us, or to show us his favor.

Job 38:34

Can you shout orders to the clouds and make them drench you with rain?

Job 9:9

God hung the stars in the sky—the Dipper, Orion, the Pleiades, and the stars of the south.

Psalm 104:20

You made the night, and in the darkness all the wild animals come out.

Psalm 105:28

God sent darkness on the country, but the Egyptians did not obey his command.

Isaiah 42:16

“I will lead my blind people by roads they have never traveled. I will turn their darkness into light and make rough country smooth before them. These are my promises, and I will keep them without fail.

Isaiah 59:10

and we grope about like blind people. We stumble at noon, as if it were night, as if we were in the dark world of the dead.

Jeremiah 16:21

“So then,” says the Lord, “once and for all I will make the nations know my power and my might; they will know that I am the Lord.”

Jeremiah 33:2

The Lord, who made the earth, who formed it and set it in place, spoke to me. He whose name is the Lord said,

Amos 4:13

God is the one who made the mountains and created the winds. He makes his thoughts known to people; he changes day into night. He walks on the heights of the earth. This is his name: the Lord God Almighty!

Amos 8:9

The time is coming when I will make the sun go down at noon and the earth grow dark in daytime. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken.

Amos 9:6

The Lord builds his home in the heavens, and over the earth he puts the dome of the sky. He calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the earth. His name is the Lord!

Matthew 4:16

The people who live in darkness will see a great light. On those who live in the dark land of death the light will shine.”

Luke 1:79

and to shine from heaven on all those who live in the dark shadow of death, to guide our steps into the path of peace.”