Amos 5:8

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Summary

Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:

Maketh

And turneth

Luke 1:79

That calleth

Job 38:34

General references

Job 38:34

Bible References

Maketh

Who made the Bear, the Giant and the Cluster, and the chambers of the south;

Canst thou bind the fetters of the Pleiades? Or, the bands of Orion, canst thou unloose?

For lo! He that fashioned the mountains, and created the wind, and who telleth the son of earth what is his thought, who turneth dawn into darkness, and marcheth upon the high places of the earth, Yahweh, God of hosts, is his name!

Yea it shall come to pass, in that day, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, that I will cause the sun to go in at high noon, - and will darken the earth on a day of brightness.!

Then said Yahweh unto Moses: Stretch forth thy hand over the heavens, that there may be darkness, over the land of Egypt, - and that one may feel the darkness.

And it came to pass in the morning watch, that Yahweh looked down into the camp of the Egyptians, through the pillar of fire and cloud, and confused the camp of the Egyptians;

Thou causest darkness, and it becometh night, Therein, creepeth forth, Every wild beast of the forest;

He sent darkness, and made it dark, But they rebelled against his words;

We grope, as blind men for a wall, Yea, as men without eyes, do we grope, - We have stumbled at broad noon as though it were twilight, In desolate places like the dead!

And turneth

Laying open deep things, out of darkness, and bringing out to light, the death-shade:

Since thy days began hast thou commanded the morning? or caused the dawn to know its place;

The dwellers in darkness and death-shade, bound with oppression and iron;

The people that was sitting in darkness, a great light, beheld, - and, on them who were sitting in land and shade of death, Light rose on them.

To shine on them who, in the darkness and shade of death, are sitting, to guide our feet into a way of peace.

That calleth

Who buildeth, in the heavens, his upper rooms, and, as for his vault, upon the earth, hath he founded it, - who calleth to the waters of the sea, and poureth them out over the face of the land, Yahweh, is his name.

In the six hundredth year, the year of the life of Noah. in the second month on the seventeenth day of the month on this day, were burst open all the fountains of the great roaring deep, and the windows of the heavens, were set open.

And it came to pass, at the seventh time, that he said, Lo! a little cloud, like a man's hand coming up from the sea. Then he said - Go up, say unto Ahab - Harness, and get thee down, lest the rain shut thee in.

Whether, as a rod, or for his earth, or in lovingkindness, he causeth it to come.

Canst thou lift up, to the thick cloud, thy voice, and the overflow of waters cover thee?

General references

Canst thou lift up, to the thick cloud, thy voice, and the overflow of waters cover thee?