Amos 5:8

God made the stars, turns darkness to dawn, and commands the seas; Yahweh is his name. The Judge of injustice is the almighty Creator and Lord of all.

Cross-references · 21

• Amos 4:13For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”
• Job 9:9He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, of the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.
• Amos 9:6He builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His vault upon the earth. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth. The LORD is His name.
• Ps 104:20You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.
• Amos 8:9And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
• Job 38:31–32Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
• Exod 10:21–23Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness.”
• Job 38:12–13In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
• Ps 107:10–14Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,
• Ps 104:6–9You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.
• Ps 105:28He sent darkness, and it became dark—yet they defied His words.
• Job 12:22He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into light.
• 1 Kgs 18:44–45On the seventh time the servant reported, “There is a cloud as small as a man’s hand rising from the sea.” And Elijah replied, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’”
• Isa 59:10Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.
• Job 37:13Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion.
• Job 38:34Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
• Isa 42:16I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.
• Exod 14:24–28At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion.
• Gen 7:11–20In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
• Luke 1:79to shine on those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”
• Matt 4:16the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.”

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