Amos 8:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיָ֣ה ׀ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֗וּא נְאֻם֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה וְהֵבֵאתִ֥י הַשֶּׁ֖מֶשׁ בַּֽצָּהֳרָ֑יִם וְהַחֲשַׁכְתִּ֥י לָאָ֖רֶץ בְּי֥וֹם אֽוֹר׃

Transliteration

And wəhāyâ in the day the that nəʾum ʾădōnāy YHWH and hēbēʾtî the šemeš at the ṣāhŏrāyim and haḥăšaktî to the ʾāreṣ in day ʾôr

Grammar Details

• *wəhāyâ*: qal perfect with waw consecutive, 3rd masculine singular - and it will be/happen
• *bayyôm*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - in the day
• *hahûʾ*: definite article + demonstrative pronoun - that
• *nəʾum*: noun, masculine singular construct - declaration/utterance of
• *ʾădōnāy*: noun, masculine singular - Lord/master
• *YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
• *hēbēʾtî*: hiphil perfect, 1st singular - I will cause to come/set
• *haššemeš*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the sun
• *baṣṣāhŏrāyim*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine dual - at noon
• *haḥăšaktî*: hiphil perfect, 1st singular - I will darken
• *lāʾāreṣ*: preposition + definite article + noun, feminine singular - to the land/earth
• *bəyôm*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - in day
• *ʾôr*: noun, masculine singular - light

Word Meanings

• *wəhāyâ*: and it will be/and it will happen/and it will come to pass
• *nəʾum*: declaration/utterance/oracle
• *hēbēʾtî*: I will cause to go down/I will set/I will bring
• *šemeš*: sun
• *ṣāhŏrāyim*: noon/midday
• *haḥăšaktî*: I will darken/I will cause darkness
• *ʾāreṣ*: land/earth/ground
• *ʾôr*: light/daylight

Referenced Verses

• Jer 15:9 : 9 She that hath borne seven languisheth; she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day; she hath been put to shame and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith Jehovah.
• Mic 3:6 : 6 Therefore it shall be night unto you, that ye shall have no vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them.
• Matt 24:29 : 29 But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
• Isa 59:9-9 : 9 Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity. 10 We grope for the wall like the blind; yea, we grope as they that have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty we are as dead men.
• Amos 5:8 : 8 [ 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);
• Amos 4:13 : 13 For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought; that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth— Jehovah, the God of hosts, is his name.
• Job 5:14 : 14 They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
• Isa 13:10 : 10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.
• Matt 27:45 : 45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
• Mark 15:33 : 33 And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
• Luke 23:44 : 44 And it was now about the sixth hour, and a darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour,
• Rev 6:12 : 12 And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and {G2400} there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the whole moon became as blood;
• Rev 8:12 : 12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; that the third part of them should be darkened, and the day should not shine for the third part of it, and the night in like manner.
• Isa 29:9-9 : 9 Tarry ye and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 For Jehovah hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, hath he covered.
• Exod 10:21-23 : 21 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. 22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days; 23 they saw not one another, neither rose any one from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.