Add parallel Print Page Options

But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion;

he can turn the darkness into morning
and daylight[a] into night.
He summons the water of the seas
and pours it out on the earth’s surface.
The Lord is his name!
He flashes[b] destruction down upon the strong
so that destruction overwhelms[c] the fortified places.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Amos 5:8 tn Heb “darkens the day into night.”
  2. Amos 5:9 tn The precise meaning of the Hebrew verb בָּלַג (balag, translated here “flashes”) is uncertain.
  3. Amos 5:9 tn Heb “comes upon.” Many prefer to repoint the verb as Hiphil and translate, “he brings destruction upon the fortified places.”

He who made the Pleiades and Orion,(A)
    who turns midnight into dawn(B)
    and darkens day into night,(C)
who calls for the waters of the sea
    and pours them out over the face of the land—
    the Lord is his name.(D)
With a blinding flash he destroys the stronghold
    and brings the fortified city to ruin.(E)

Read full chapter