Amos 5:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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 water of the sea and pours it out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name,

Cross References

Job 12:22

He uncovers deep things from the darkness and brings deep darkness to light.

Job 37:13

Whether for correction or for his land or for love, he causes it to happen.

Job 38:34

“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, so that a flood of waters may cover you?

Job 9:9

he made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the chambers of the south;

Psalm 104:20

You make darkness, and it is night, when all the animals of the forest come creeping out.

Psalm 105:28

He sent darkness and made the land dark; they rebelled against his words.

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind by a road they do not know; by paths they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 59:10

We grope like the blind along a wall, groping like those who have no eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among the vigorous as though we were dead.

Jeremiah 16:21

“Therefore I am surely going to teach them, this time I am going to teach them my power and my might, and they shall know that my name is the Lord.”

Jeremiah 33:2

Thus says the Lord who makes it, the Lord who forms it to establish it—the Lord is his name:

Amos 4:13

For the one who forms the mountains, creates the wind, reveals his thoughts to mortals, makes the morning darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth— the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!

Amos 8:9

On that day, says the Lord God, I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.

Amos 9:6

who builds his upper chambers in the heavens and founds his vault upon the earth, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the surface of the earth— the Lord is his name.

Matthew 4:16

the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death light has dawned.”

Luke 1:79

to shine upon those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”