Amos 5:8

New Living Translation

It is the Lord who created the stars, the Pleiades and Orion. He turns darkness into morning and day into night. He draws up water from the oceans and pours it down as rain on the land. The Lord is his name!

Cross References

Job 12:22

“He uncovers mysteries hidden in darkness; he brings light to the deepest gloom.

Job 37:13

He makes these things happen either to punish people or to show his unfailing love.

Job 38:34

“Can you shout to the clouds and make it rain?

Job 9:9

He made all the stars—the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the southern sky.

Psalm 104:20

You send the darkness, and it becomes night, when all the forest animals prowl about.

Psalm 105:28

The Lord blanketed Egypt in darkness, for they had defied his commands to let his people go.

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead blind Israel down a new path, guiding them along an unfamiliar way. I will brighten the darkness before them and smooth out the road ahead of them. Yes, I will indeed do these things; I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 59:10

We grope like the blind along a wall, feeling our way like people without eyes. Even at brightest noontime, we stumble as though it were dark. Among the living, we are like the dead.

Jeremiah 16:21

The Lord says, “Now I will show them my power; now I will show them my might. At last they will know and understand that I am the Lord.

Jeremiah 33:2

“This is what the Lord says—the Lord who made the earth, who formed and established it, whose name is the Lord:

Amos 4:13

For the Lord is the one who shaped the mountains, stirs up the winds, and reveals his thoughts to mankind. He turns the light of dawn into darkness and treads on the heights of the earth. The Lord God of Heaven’s Armies is his name!

Amos 8:9

“In that day,” says the Sovereign Lord, “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth while it is still day.

Amos 9:6

The Lord’s home reaches up to the heavens, while its foundation is on the earth. He draws up water from the oceans and pours it down as rain on the land. The Lord is his name!

Matthew 4:16

the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light. And for those who lived in the land where death casts its shadow, a light has shined.”

Luke 1:79

to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, and to guide us to the path of peace.”