Amos 8:9

And it shall come to pass in that Yom, 1 saith Adonoi Hashem, 1 that I will cause the shemesh to go down at noon, 1 and I will darken ha'aretz in the yom ohr (day light); 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:

In Context

8Shall not ha'aretz (the land) tremble for this, 1 and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? 1 And the whole land shall rise like the Nile; 1 and heave and sink, 1 as by the Nile of Mitzrayim. 1

10And I will turn your chagim into mourning, 1 and all your shirot into lamentation; 1 and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, 1 and baldness upon every rosh; 1 and I will make it as the mourning of a yachid (only son), 1 and the end thereof as a yom mar (bitter day). 1

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Cross References

Job 5:14They meet with choshech in the daytime, 1 and grope in the noonday as in the lailah, 1

Isaiah 29:9Pause, and wonder? 1 Blind yourselves and be blind! 1 They are drunken, but not with yayin; 1 they stagger, but not with strong drink. 1

Jeremiah 13:16Give kavod to Hashem Eloheichem, 1 before He cause darkness, 1 and before your raglayim stumble 1 upon the dark mountains, 1 and, while ye look for ohr, 1 He turn it into the tzalmavet (shadow of death), 1 and make it gross darkness. 1

Amos 4:13For, hinei, He that formeth the harim, and createth the ruach, 1 and declareth unto man what is his thought, 1 that maketh the shachar darkness, 1 and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, 1 Hashem Elohei Tzva'os Shmo.

Micah 3:6Therefore lailah shall be unto you, because of the chazon; 1 and choshech shall come upon you because of the soothsaying, the divination; 1 and the shemesh shall go down over the nevi'im, 1 and hayom shall be dark over them. 1

Matthew 27:45Now, from the sixth hour, choshech fell upon all the land until the ninth hour.

Matthew Henry on Amos 8:5-11

The Sin and Doom of Oppressors. ( b. c. 785.) 4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat? 7 The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget… Read the whole commentary →

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