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Amos 8:9

And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.

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ASV

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

KJV

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְהָיָ֣ה׀ve.ha.Yahand it will beH1961 →
בַּיּ֣וֹםbai.Yomon the dayH3117 →
הַה֗וּאha.Hu'<the> thatH1931 →
נְאֻם֙ne.'Um[the] utterance ofH5002 →
אֲדֹנָ֣י'a.do.Nai[the] LordH136 →
יְהוִ֔הYah.wehYahwehH3069 →
וְהֵבֵאתִ֥יve.he.ve.Tiand I will cause to goH935 →
הַשֶּׁ֖מֶשׁha.She.meshthe sunH8121 →
בַּֽצָּהֳרָ֑יִםba.tzo.ho.Ra.yimat <the> noon<s>H6672 →
וְהַחֲשַׁכְתִּ֥יve.ha.cha.shakh.Tiand I will make darkH2821 →
לָאָ֖רֶץla.'A.retz<to> the earthH776 →
בְּי֥וֹםbe.Yomin a day ofH3117 →
אֽוֹר׃'orlightH216 →

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Jeremiah 4:23I looked at the earth, and it was formless and void; I looked to the heavens, and they had no light.Acts 2:20The sun will be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and glorious Day of the Lord.Mark 15:33From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.Matthew 27:45From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.Luke 23:44It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour.Jeremiah 15:9The mother of seven will grow faint; she will breathe her last breath. Her sun will set while it is still day; she will be disgraced and humiliated. And the rest I will put to the sword in the presence of their enemies,” declares the LORD.Micah 3:6Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.Matthew 24:29Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’Amos 5:8He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth—the LORD is His name—Isaiah 59:9–10Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.Genesis 1:14And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.Job 5:14They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.Isaiah 13:10For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.Job 9:7He commands the sun not to shine; He seals off the stars.Revelation 6:12And when I saw the Lamb open the sixth seal, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red,Amos 4:13For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”Isaiah 60:20Your sun will no longer set, and your moon will not wane; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and the days of your sorrow will cease.Revelation 8:12Then the fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun and moon and stars were struck. A third of the stars were darkened, a third of the day was without light, and a third of the night as well.

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The Prophet Amos — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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