Amos 5:8

Geneva Bible (1560)

He maketh Pleiades, and Orion, and he turneth the shadowe of death into the morning, and he maketh the day darke as night: he calleth the waters of the sea, and powreth them out vpon the open earth: the Lord is his Name.

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  • Amos 4:13 : 13 For lo, he that formeth the mountaines, & createth the winde, & declareth vnto man what is his thought: which maketh the morning darkenesse, & walketh vpon the hie places of the earth, the Lord God of hostes is his Name.
  • Job 9:9 : 9 He maketh the starres Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the climates of the South.
  • Amos 8:9 : 9 And in that day, saith the Lorde God, I will euen cause the sunne to go downe at noone: and I will darken the earth in the cleare day.
  • Amos 9:6 : 6 He buildeth his spheres in the heauen, and hath layde the foundation of his globe of elementes in the earth: hee calleth the waters of the sea, and powreth them out vpon the open earth: the Lorde is his Name.
  • Ps 104:20 : 20 Thou makest darkenesse, and it is night, wherein all the beastes of the forest creepe forth.
  • Job 12:22 : 22 He discouereth the deepe places from their darkenesse, and bringeth foorth the shadowe of death to light.
  • Job 38:31-32 : 31 Canst thou restraine the sweete influences of the Pleiades? Or loose the bandes of Orion? 32 Canst thou bring foorth Mazzaroth in their time? Canst thou also guide Arcturus with his sonnes?
  • Job 38:34 : 34 Canst thou lift vp thy voice to the cloudes that the aboundance of water may couer thee?
  • Ps 104:6-9 : 6 Thou coueredst it with the deepe as with a garment: the waters woulde stand aboue the mountaines. 7 But at thy rebuke they flee: at the voyce of thy thunder they haste away. 8 And the mountaines ascend, and the valleis descend to the place which thou hast established for them. 9 But thou hast set them a bounde, which they shall not passe: they shall not returne to couer the earth.
  • Job 37:13 : 13 Whether it be for punishment, or for his lande, or of mercie, he causeth it to come.
  • Job 38:12-13 : 12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy dayes? Hast thou caused the morning to knowe his place, 13 That it might take hold of the corners of the earth, and that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
  • Gen 7:11-20 : 11 In the sixe hundreth yeere of Noahs life in the second moneth, the seuetenth day of the moneth, in the same day were all the fountaines of the great deepe broken vp, and the windowes of heauen were opened, 12 And the raine was vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes. 13 In the selfe same day entred Noah with Shem, and Ham and Iapheth, the sonnes of Noah, and Noahs wife, and the three wiues of his sonnes with them into the Arke. 14 They and euery beast after his kinde, and all cattell after their kinde, and euery thing that creepeth and moueth vpon the earth after his kinde, and euery foule after his kinde, euen euery bird of euery fether. 15 For they came to Noah into ye Arke, two and two, of all flesh wherein is ye breath of life. 16 And they entring in, came male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in. 17 Then ye flood was fourtie dayes vpon the earth, and the waters were increased, and bare vp the Arke, which was lift vp aboue the earth. 18 The waters also waxed strong, and were increased exceedingly vpon the earth, and the Arke went vpon the waters. 19 The waters preuailed so exceedingly vpon the earth, that all the high mountaines, that are vnder the whole heauen, were couered. 20 Fifteene cubites vpwarde did the waters preuaile, when the mountaines were couered.
  • Exod 10:21-23 : 21 Againe ye Lord said vnto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heauen, that there may be vpon the lande of Egypt darkenesse, euen darkenesse that may be felt. 22 Then Moses stretched forth his hande towarde heauen, and there was a blacke darkenesse in all the land of Egypt three daies. 23 No man saw an other, neither rose vp from ye place where he was for three dayes: but all the children of Israel had light where they dwelt.
  • Exod 14:24-28 : 24 Nowe in the morning watche, when the Lord looked vnto the hoste of the Egyptians, out of the firie and cloudie pillar, he strooke the host of the Egyptians with feare. 25 For he tooke off their charet wheeles, and they draue them with much a doe: so that the Egyptians euery one sayd, I wil flee from the face of Israel: for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians. 26 Then the Lord sayde to Moses, Stretche thine hand vpon the Sea, that the waters may returne vpon the Egyptians, vpon their charets and vpon their horsemen. 27 Then Moses stretched forth his hand vpon the Sea, and the Sea returned to his force early in the morning, and the Egyptians fled against it: but the Lord ouerthrew the Egyptians in the mids of the Sea. 28 So the water returned & couered the charets and the horsemen, euen all the hoste of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them: there remained not one of them.
  • 1 Kgs 18:44-45 : 44 And at the seuenth time he sayd, Behold, there ariseth a litle cloude out of the sea like a mans hand. Then he sayd, Vp, and say vnto Ahab, Make readie thy charet, and get thee downe, that the raine stay thee not. 45 And in the meane while the heauen was blacke with cloudes and winde, and there was a great rayne. Then Ahab went vp and came to Izreel.
  • Ps 105:28 : 28 He sent darkenesse, and made it darke: and they were not disobedient vnto his commission.
  • Ps 107:10-14 : 10 They that dwell in darkenesse and in the shadowe of death, being bounde in miserie and yron, 11 Because they rebelled against the wordes of the Lorde, and despised the counsell of the most High, 12 When he humbled their heart with heauines, then they fell downe and there was no helper. 13 Then they cried vnto the Lorde in their trouble, & he deliuered them from their distresse. 14 He brought them out of darkenes, and out of the shadowe of death, and brake their bandes asunder.
  • Isa 42:16 : 16 And I will bring the blinde by a way, that they knewe not, and lead them by paths that they haue not knowen: I will make darkenesse light before them, and crooked thinges straight. These thinges will I doe vnto them, and not forsake them.
  • Isa 59:10 : 10 Wee grope for the wall like the blinde, and we grope as one without eyes: we stumble at the noone day as in the twilight: we are in solitarie places, as dead men.
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 The people which sate in darkenes, sawe great light: and to them which sate in the region, and shadowe of death, light is risen vp.
  • Luke 1:79 : 79 To giue light to them that sit in darknes, and in the shadow of death, & to guide our feete into the way of peace.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 35 Thus saith the Lorde, which giueth the sunne for a light to the day, and the courses of the moone and of the starres for a light to the night, which breaketh the sea, when the waues thereof roare: his Name is the Lord of hostes.

  • Job 9:7-10
    4 verses
    76%

    7 He commandeth the sunne, & it riseth not: hee closeth vp the starres, as vnder a signet.

    8 Hee himselfe alone spreadeth out the heauens, and walketh vpon the height of the sea.

    9 He maketh the starres Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the climates of the South.

    10 He doeth great things, and vnsearcheable: yea, marueilous things without nomber.

  • 6 He buildeth his spheres in the heauen, and hath layde the foundation of his globe of elementes in the earth: hee calleth the waters of the sea, and powreth them out vpon the open earth: the Lorde is his Name.

  • 13 For lo, he that formeth the mountaines, & createth the winde, & declareth vnto man what is his thought: which maketh the morning darkenesse, & walketh vpon the hie places of the earth, the Lord God of hostes is his Name.

  • 9 He strengtheneth the destroyer against the mightie: and the destroyer shal come against the fortresse.

  • 7 They turne iudgement to wormewood, and leaue off righteousnes in the earth.

  • Job 38:31-33
    3 verses
    70%

    31 Canst thou restraine the sweete influences of the Pleiades? Or loose the bandes of Orion?

    32 Canst thou bring foorth Mazzaroth in their time? Canst thou also guide Arcturus with his sonnes?

    33 Knowest thou the course of heauen, or canst thou set the rule thereof in the earth?

  • 3 God putteth an end to darkenesse, and he tryeth the perfection of all things: he setteth a bond of darkenesse, and of the shadowe of death.

  • 10 Who is among you that feareth the Lord? let him heare the voyce of his seruant: hee that walketh in darkenesse, and hath no light, let him trust in the Name of the Lorde, and staye vpon his God.

  • 22 He discouereth the deepe places from their darkenesse, and bringeth foorth the shadowe of death to light.

  • 7 He bringeth vp the cloudes fro the ends of the earth, & maketh the lightnings with ye raine: he draweth foorth the winde out of his treasures.

  • 26 Lift vp your eyes on hie, and beholde who hath created these things, and bringeth out their armies by nomber, and calleth them all by names? by the greatnesse of his power & mightie strength nothing faileth.

  • 8 They also, that dwell in the vttermost parts of the earth, shalbe afraide of thy signes: thou shalt make the East and the West to reioyce.

  • 10 But none saieth, Where is God that made me, which giueth songs in the nyght?

  • 16 Giue glory to the Lorde your God before he bring darknes, and or euer your feete stumble in the darke mountaines, and whiles you look for light, he turne it into the shadowe of death and make it as darkenesse.

  • 1 A Psalme of Asaph. The God of Gods, euen the Lord hath spoken and called the earth from the rising vp of the sunne vnto the going downe thereof.

  • 20 Shal not the day of the Lord be darkenes, and not light? euen darkenes and no light in it?

  • 7 I forme the light and create darkenes: I make peace and create euill: I the Lorde doe all these things.

  • 22 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles, that can giue raine? or can the heauens giue showres? is it not thou, O Lorde our God? therefore we will waite vpon thee: for thou hast made all these things.

  • 9 Let the starres of that twilight be dimme through darkenesse of it: let it looke for light, but haue none: neither let it see the dawning of the day,

  • 4 He counteth the nomber of the starres, and calleth them all by their names.

  • 2 Thus sayth the Lord, the maker thereof, the Lord that formed it, and established it, the Lord is his Name.

  • 32 (41:23) He maketh a path to shine after him: one would thinke the depth as an hoare head.

  • 9 Which doeth great things and vnsearchable, and marueilous things without nomber.

  • 4 Who hath ascended vp to heauen, and descended? Who hath gathered the winde in his fist? Who hath bound the waters in a garment? Who hath established all the endes of the world? What is his name, and what is his sonnes name, if thou canst tell?

  • 15 And I am the Lorde thy God that deuided the Sea, when his waues roared: the Lord of hostes is his Name.

  • 19 Where is the way where light dwelleth? And where is the place of darkenesse,

  • 20 Thou makest darkenesse, and it is night, wherein all the beastes of the forest creepe forth.

  • 30 And in that day they shal roare vpon them, as the roaring of the sea: and if they looke vnto the earth, beholde darkenesse, and sorowe, and the light shalbe darkened in their skie.

  • 6 Which made heauen and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth his fidelitie for euer:

  • 3 I clothe the heauens with darkenesse, and make a sacke their couering.

  • 8 All the lightes of heauen will I make darke for thee, and bring darkenesse vpon thy lande, sayeth the Lord God.

  • 8 But passing ouer as with a flood, he will vtterly destroy the place thereof, and darknesse shall pursue his enemies.

  • 11 He made darkenes his secrete place, and his pauilion round about him, euen darkenesse of waters, and cloudes of the ayre.

  • 5 Thus sayeth God the Lord (he that created the heauens and spred them abroad: he that stretched foorth the earth, and the buddes thereof: he that giueth breath vnto the people vpon it, and spirit to them that walke therein)

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    3 When I beholde thine heauens, euen the workes of thy fingers, the moone and the starres which thou hast ordeined,

  • 15 He hath made the earth by his power, & established the world by his wisedome, and hath stretched out the heauen by his discretion.

  • 3 And I will giue thee the treasures of darkenesse, and the things hid in secret places, that thou maist know that I am the Lord which call thee by thy name, euen the God of Israel.

  • 12 And hee made darkenesse a Tabernacle round about him, euen the gatherings of waters, and the cloudes of the ayre.

  • 5 But let darkenesse, and the shadowe of death staine it: let the cloude remayne vpon it, and let them make it fearefull as a bitter day.

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    8 The foules of the ayre, and the fish of the sea, and that which passeth through the paths of the seas.

  • 4 Seeke the Lord and his strength: seeke his face continually.

  • 3 Seeke yee the Lorde all the meeke of the earth, which haue wrought his iudgement: seeke righteousnesse, seeke lowlinesse, if so bee that ye may be hid in the day of the Lords wrath.

  • 10 For the starres of heauen and the planets thereof shall not giue their light: the sunne shalbe darkened in his going foorth, and the moone shal not cause her light to shine.

  • 12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy dayes? Hast thou caused the morning to knowe his place,