Amos 5:20
Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
Amos 5:20 in other translations
| BSB | Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it? |
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| WEB | Won’t the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it? |
| ASV | Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it? |
| YLT | Is not the day of Jehovah darkness and not light, Even thick darkness that hath no brightness? |
| DARBY | Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it? |
| BBE | Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it? |
| Webster | Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it? |
What does Amos 5:20 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Amos 5:18-27
Woe unto those that desire the day of the Lord's judgments, that wish for times of war and confusion; as some who long for changes, hoping to rise upon the ruins of their country! but this should be so great a desolation, that nobody could gain by it. The day of the Lord will be a dark, dismal, gloomy day to all impenitent sinners. When God makes a day dark, all the world cannot make it light. Those who are not…
Amos 5:20 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Amos 5:20
- Isaiah 13:10
For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
- Zephaniah 1:15
That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
- Ezekiel 34:12
As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
- Job 10:21-22
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
- Jude 1:13
Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
- Nahum 1:8
But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
- Revelation 16:10
And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
- Matthew 22:13
Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- Job 3:4-6
Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
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Context
- Amos 5:19
As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
- Amos 5:20
Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
- Amos 5:21
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
Amos 5:20 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿No será el día de Jehová tinieblas, y no luz; oscuridad, que no tiene resplandor? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Le jour de l’ Éternel n’est-il pas ténèbres, et non lumière? et profonde obscurité, et non splendeur? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wird denn nicht der Tag Jehovas Finsternis sein und nicht Licht, und Dunkelheit und nicht Glanz? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Numquid non tenebræ dies Domini, et non lux; et caligo, et non splendor in ea? |