Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness and not light? and dark and no shining to it?
New American Standard Bible
Even gloom with no brightness in it?
King James Version
Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
Holman Bible
be darkness rather than light,
even gloom without any brightness in it?
International Standard Version
Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness, and not light pitch black at that, without a ray of sunshine?"
A Conservative Version
Shall not the day of LORD be darkness, and not light, even very dark, and no brightness in it?
American Standard Version
Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
Amplified
Will not the day of the Lord be darkness, instead of light,
Even very dark with no brightness in it?
Bible in Basic English
Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?
Darby Translation
Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
King James 2000
Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
Lexham Expanded Bible
[Is] not the day of Yahweh darkness and not light, and pitch dark with no brightness in it?
Modern King James verseion
Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Shall not the day of the LORD be dark, and not clear? Shall it not be cloudy, and no shine in it?
NET Bible
Don't you realize the Lord's day of judgment will bring darkness, not light -- gloomy blackness, not bright light?
New Heart English Bible
Won't the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
The Emphasized Bible
Shall not the day of Yahweh be, darkness, and not light? yea, thick darkness and no brightness in it?
Webster
Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
World English Bible
Won't the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
Youngs Literal Translation
Is not the day of Jehovah darkness and not light, Even thick darkness that hath no brightness?
Themes
Interlinear
Yowm
References
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Amos 5:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Day Of Yahweh
19 According as a man will flee from the face of the lion and the bear struck upon him, and he came into the house and leaned his hand upon the wall, and the serpent bit him. 20 Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness and not light? and dark and no shining to it? 21 I hated, I rejected your festivals, and I will not smell in your assemblies.
Cross References
Isaiah 13:10
For the stars of the heavens and the giants of the sky shall not shine their light: the sun was darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Job 3:4-6
That day shall be darkness; God shall not search it out from above, and the light shall not shine upon it.
Job 10:21-22
Before I shall go and turn back to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
Ezekiel 34:12
According to the seeking of the shepherd of his flock in the day of his being in the midst of his sheep being scattered.; so will I search out my sheep and deliver them from all places where they were scattered there in the day of cloud and darkness.
Nahum 1:8
With an inundation passing through he will make a completion of her place, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
Zephaniah 1:15
A day of wrath, that day a day of straits and distress, a day of storm and desolation, a day of darkness and thick darkness, a day of cloud and gloom,
Matthew 22:13
Then said the king to his servants, Having bound his feet and hands, take him away, and cast ye him into outer darkness; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth.
Jude 1:13
Fierce waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames; wandering stars, to whom the obseurity of darkness has been kept forever.
Revelation 16:10
And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the throne of the wild beast; and his kingdom was darkened; and they pressed their tongues for pain,