Amos 5:8
[seek him] who makes 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 upon the face of the earth (LORD is his name),
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In Context
7Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,
9who brings sudden destruction upon the strong, so that destruction comes upon the fortress.
Cross References
Genesis 7:11In 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 broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Exodus 14:24And it came to pass in the morning watch, that LORD looked forth upon the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and troubled the army of the Egyptians.
Job 9:9who makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south,
Job 37:13He causes it to come, whether it be for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness.
Job 38:31Can thou bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
Psalms 104:6Thou covered it with the deep as with a vesture. The waters stood above the mountains.
Matthew Henry on Amos 5:5-16
God's Message to Israel; The Aggravated Sins of Israel; Warnings and Exhortations; Exhortations and Encouragements. ( b. c. 790.) 4 For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: 5 But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought. 6 Seek the Lord , and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel. 7 Ye who… Read the whole commentary →