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, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.
• Job 9:9Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
• Amos 9:6It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.
• Ps 104:20Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
• Amos 8:9And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
• Job 38:31–32Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
• Exod 10:21–23And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
• Job 38:12–13Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
• Ps 107:10–14Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
• Ps 104:6–9Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
• Ps 105:28He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
• Job 12:22He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
• 1 Kgs 18:44–45And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.
• Isa 59:10We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
• Job 37:13He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
• Job 38:34Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
• Isa 42:16And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
• Exod 14:24–28And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
• Gen 7:11–20In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
• Luke 1:79To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
• Matt 4:16The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

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