Amos 5:8

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⁶ Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.

⁷ There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.

He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth— the LORD is His name—

⁹ He flashes destruction on the strong, so that fury comes upon the stronghold.

¹⁰ There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth— the LORD is His name—
KJV: 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:
WEB: Seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the LORD is his name,
ASV: [seek him] that maketh the Pleiades 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 (Jehovah is his name);
DARBY: [seek him] that made the Pleiades 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: Jehovah is his name.
BLB: the One making the Pleiades and Orion, and the One turning into the morning the shadow of death, and making the day dark as night, the One calling to the waters of the sea, and pouring them over the face of the earth—YHWH [is] His name—

ÅB: Han som har skapt Syvstjernen og Orion og omskifter dødsskygge til morgen og gjør dagen mørk som natten, han som kaller på havets vann og øser dem ut over jorden - Herren er hans navn!
OTB: Han som skapte Pleiadene og Orion,
som gjør dyp mørke til morgen
og mørkner dag til natt,
som kaller havets vann
og heller dem ut over jordens overflate
— Herren er hans navn.
B1930: Han som har skapt Syvstjernen og Orion og omskifter dødsskygge til morgen og gjør dagen mørk som natten, han som kaller på havets vann og øser dem ut over jorden - Herren er hans navn!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Amos 4:13
For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth— the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”
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Job 9:9
He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, of the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.
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Amos 9:6
He builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His vault upon the earth. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth. The LORD is His name.
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Amos 8:9
And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
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Psalms 104:20
You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.
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Job 38:31–32
Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
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Job 38:12–13
In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
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Psalms 107:10–14
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,
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