Amos 5:8
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,
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In Context
7You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!
9who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on 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 that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.
Exodus 14:24In the morning watch, the LORD looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.
Job 9:9He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.
Job 37:13whether it is for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness, that he causes it to come.
Job 38:31“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?
Psalms 104:6You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. 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 →