Amos 5:8

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

She who has borne seven languishes. She has given up the spirit. Her sun has gone down while it was yet day. She has been disappointed and confounded. I will deliver their residue to the sword before their enemies,” says Yahweh.

He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

“Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”

He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.

before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?

He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.

For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

Therefore the showers have been withheld and there has been no latter rain; yet you have had a prostitute’s forehead and you refused to be ashamed.

For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.

For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place, and will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.

“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.

But immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.

In a little while, the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.

Now Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It will also come on the land for seven years.”

For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen.

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together. They will return as a great company.

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.

It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.

I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn’t turn to me,’ says Yahweh.

Every valley will be filled. Every mountain and hill will be brought low. The crooked will become straight, and the rough ways smooth.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.

Yahweh is a man of war. Yahweh is his name.

and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.

They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

Out of its room comes the storm, and cold out of the north.

By your power, you form the mountains, having armed yourself with strength.

For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night,”

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

A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.

Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.

Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name, is the Holy One of Israel.

saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.

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 deep darkness.

Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:

He has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

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

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;

He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

“Therefore behold, I will cause them to know, this once I will cause them to know my hand and my might. Then they will know that my name is Yahweh.”

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

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.

Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

Whether it is for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness, that he causes it to come.

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?

He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn’t rebel against his words.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

We grope for the wall like the blind. Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were twilight. Among those who are strong, we are like dead men.

“Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who forms it to establish it—Yahweh is his name, says:

He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.

I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground produces, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands.”

the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”