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, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”
• Job 9:9He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.
• Amos 9:6It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.
• Ps 104:20You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.
• Amos 8:9It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
• Job 38:31–32“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?
• Exod 10:21–23Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.”
• Job 38:12–13“Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place;
• Ps 107:10–14Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,
• Ps 104:6–9You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.
• Ps 105:28He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn’t rebel against his words.
• Job 12:22He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
• 1 Kgs 18:44–45On the seventh time, he said, “Behold, a small cloud, like a man’s hand, is rising out of the sea.” He said, “Go up, tell Ahab, ‘Get ready and go down, so that the rain doesn’t stop you.’”
• Isa 59:10We grope for the wall like the blind. Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were twilight. Among those who are strong, we are like dead men.
• Job 37:13Whether it is for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness, that he causes it to come.
• Job 38:34“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?
• Isa 42:16I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
• Exod 14:24–28In the morning watch, Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.
• Gen 7:11–20In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky’s windows were opened.
• Luke 1:79to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
• Matt 4:16the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”

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