Amos 5:20

World English Bible (2000)

Won't the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

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  • Isa 13:10 : 10 For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.
  • Ezek 34:12 : 12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
  • Nah 1:8 : 8 But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
  • Zeph 1:15 : 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,
  • Matt 22:13 : 13 Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.'
  • Jude 1:13 : 13 wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
  • Rev 16:10 : 10 The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain,
  • Job 3:4-6 : 4 Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it. 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it. 6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.
  • Job 10:21-22 : 21 before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; 22 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"

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    18 "Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.

    19 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.

  • Zech 14:6-7
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    6 It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost.

    7 It will be a unique day which is known to Yahweh; not day, and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there will be light.

  • Zeph 1:14-15
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    14 The great day of Yahweh is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of Yahweh. The mighty man cries there bitterly.

    15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

  • Isa 5:30
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    30 They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

  • Job 3:4-7
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    4 Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

    5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

    6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.

    7 Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.

  • Isa 13:9-10
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    9 Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.

    10 For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

  • Mic 3:6
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    6 "Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

  • Amos 8:9-10
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    9 It will happen in that day," says the Lord Yahweh, "that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

    10 I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.

  • Job 18:5-6
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    5 "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

    6 The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.

  • Job 10:22
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    22 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"

  • Jer 13:16
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    16 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

  • Joel 2:2
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    2 A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

  • Joel 3:15
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    15 The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

  • Job 5:14
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    14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

  • Ezek 32:8
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    8 All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Job 17:12
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    12 They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

  • Joel 1:15
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    15 Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

  • Job 3:9
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    9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

  • Isa 8:22
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    22 and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

  • Joel 2:31
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    31 The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

  • Lam 3:2
    73%

    2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

    17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    73%

    11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"

    12 even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

  • Isa 50:10
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    10 Who is among you who fears Yahweh, who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of Yahweh, and rely on his God.

  • Amos 5:21
    73%

    21 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can't stand your solemn assemblies.

  • Isa 5:20
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    20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

  • Joel 2:10
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    10 The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

  • Hos 9:5
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    5 What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of Yahweh?

  • Acts 2:20
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    20 The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.

  • Isa 60:19
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    19 The sun shall be no more your light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light to you: but Yahweh will be to you an everlasting light, and your God your glory.

  • Job 20:26
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    26 All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

  • Isa 59:9
    72%

    9 Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

  • Job 34:22
    72%

    22 There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

  • Job 38:19
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    19 "What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

  • Eccl 5:17
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    17 All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.

  • Isa 60:2
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    2 For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.

  • Isa 8:20
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    20 Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don't speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

  • Job 15:23
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    23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

  • 1 Thess 5:4
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    4 But you, brothers, aren't in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.