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

[He is the one] who made [the] Bear [and] Orion, [the] Pleiades and [the] constellations of [the] south.

"Can you bind [the] chains of [the] Pleiades, or can you loosen [the] cords of Orion?

Yes, here is the one who forms [the] mountains, and the one who creates the wind, and the one who reveals to humans what his thoughts [are], and the one who treads on the heights of the earth; Yahweh, the God of hosts, [is] his name!"

And then in that day," {declares} my Lord Yahweh, "I will make the sun go down at noon and I will darken the land on a day of light.

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the heavens so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt and so that [a person can] feel darkness."

And during the morning watch, Yahweh looked down to the Egyptian camp [from] in the column of fire and cloud, and he threw the Egyptian camp into a panic.

You make darkness, and it is night, when all [the] animals of the forest creep about.

He sent darkness and made [it] dark, and they did not rebel against his words.

We grope like the blind [along] a wall, and we grope {as without} eyes. We stumble at noon as [in] the twilight; among the strong [we are] like the dead.

And turneth

"He uncovers mysteries out of darkness, and he brings deep shadow to the light.

"Have you {ever in your life} commanded [the] morning? Have you made the dawn know its place,

[Those who] sat in darkness and gloom, prisoners of misery and iron--

the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, and the ones who sit in the land and shadow of death, a light has dawned on them."

to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to direct our feet into the way of peace."

That calleth

who builds his upper chambers in the heavens and lays the foundation of his vault on the earth, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them on the surface of the earth--Yahweh is his name.

In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month--on that day all the springs of the great deep were split open, and the windows of heaven were opened.

It happened that at the seventh time, he said, "Look, there is a small cloud, as [the] hand of a man, coming up from the sea." Then [Elijah] said, "Go up, say to Ahab, 'Harness [your horses] and go down, lest the rain stop you.'"

Whether as {correction} or for his land, or as loyal love, he lets it happen.

Can you lift up your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water may cover you?

General references

Can you lift up your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water may cover you?