Therefore justice is far from us,
and righteousness does not reach us.
We hope for light, but there is darkness;
for brightness, but we live in the night.
10 We grope along a wall like the blind;
we grope like those without eyes.(A)
We stumble at noon as though it were twilight;
we are like the dead among those who are healthy.

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13 He is here:
the One who forms the mountains,(A)
creates the wind,(B)
and reveals His[a] thoughts to man,(C)
the One who makes the dawn out of darkness
and strides on the heights of the earth.(D)
Yahweh, the God of Hosts, is His name.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 4:13 Or his

The One who made the Pleiades and Orion,(A)
who turns darkness[a] into dawn(B)
and darkens day into night,(C)
who summons the waters of the sea(D)
and pours them out over the face of the earth(E)
Yahweh is His name.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 5:8 Or turns the shadow of death

The Death of Jesus

45 From noon until three in the afternoon[a] darkness came over the whole land.[b](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 27:45 Lit From the sixth hour to the ninth hour
  2. Matthew 27:45 Or whole earth

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