Amos 5:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 13:10 : 10 For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.
  • Ezek 34:12 : 12 As the keeper goes looking for his flock when he is among his wandering sheep, so I will go looking for my sheep, and will get them safely out of all the places where they have been sent wandering in the day of clouds and black night.
  • Nah 1:8 : 8 But like water overflowing he will take them away; he will put an end to those who come up against him, driving his haters into the dark.
  • Zeph 1:15 : 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and sorrow, a day of wasting and destruction, a day of dark night and deep shade, a day of cloud and thick dark.
  • Matt 22:13 : 13 Then the king said to the servants, Put cords round his hands and feet and put him out into the dark; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.
  • Jude 1:13 : 13 Violent waves of the sea, streaming with their shame, wandering stars for whom the darkest night is kept in store for ever.
  • Rev 16:10 : 10 And the fifth let what was in his vessel come out on the high seat of the beast; and his kingdom was made dark; and they were biting their tongues for pain.
  • Job 3:4-6 : 4 That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it; 5 Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it. 6 That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
  • Job 10:21-22 : 21 Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black, 22 A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

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    18Sorrow to you who are looking for the day of the Lord! what is the day of the Lord to you? it is dark and not light.

    19As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.

  • Zech 14:6-7
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    6And in that day there will be no heat or cold or ice;

    7And it will be unbroken day, such as the Lord has knowledge of, without change of day and night, and even at nightfall it will be light.

  • Zeph 1:14-15
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    14The great day of the Lord is near, it is near and coming very quickly; the bitter day of the Lord is near, coming on more quickly than a man of war.

    15That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and sorrow, a day of wasting and destruction, a day of dark night and deep shade, a day of cloud and thick dark.

  • Isa 5:30
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    30And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.

  • Job 3:4-7
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    4That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;

    5Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

    6That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

    7As for that night, let it have no fruit; let no voice of joy be sounded in it;

  • Isa 13:9-10
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    9See, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel, with wrath and burning passion: to make the land a waste, driving the sinners in it to destruction.

    10For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.

  • Mic 3:6
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    6For this cause it will be night for you, without a vision; and it will be dark for you, without knowledge of the future; the sun will go down over the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

  • Amos 8:9-10
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    9And it will come about in that day, says the Lord God, that I will make the sun go down in the middle of the day, and I will make the earth dark in daylight:

    10Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

  • Job 18:5-6
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    5For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.

    6The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

  • Job 10:22
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    22A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

  • Jer 13:16
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    16Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

  • Joel 2:2
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    2For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.

  • Joel 3:15
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    15Get your plough-blades hammered into swords, and your vine-knives into spears: let the feeble say, I am strong.

  • Job 5:14
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    14In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

  • Ezek 32:8
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    8All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over you, and put dark night on your land, says the Lord.

  • Job 17:12
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    12They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.

  • Joel 1:15
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    15Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.

  • Job 3:9
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    9Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.

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    22And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.

  • Lam 3:2
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    2By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

    17For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

    12Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.

  • Isa 50:10
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    10Who among you has the fear of the Lord, giving ear to the voice of his servant who has been walking in the dark and has no light? Let him put his faith in the name of the Lord, looking to his God for support.

  • Amos 5:21
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    21Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings.

  • Isa 5:20
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    20Cursed are those who give the name of good to evil, and of evil to what is good: who make light dark, and dark light: who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter!

  • Joel 2:10
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    10The earth is troubled before them and the heavens are shaking: the sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining:

  • Hos 9:5
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    5What will you do on the day of worship, and on the day of the feast of the Lord?

  • Acts 2:20
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    20The sun will become dark and the moon will be turned to blood, before that great day of the Lord comes in glory:

  • Isa 60:19
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    19The sun will not be your light by day, and the moon will no longer be bright for you by night: but the Lord will be to you an eternal light, and your God your glory.

  • Job 20:26
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    26All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.

  • Isa 59:9
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    9For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.

  • Job 34:22
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    22There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.

  • Job 38:19
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    19Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

  • Eccl 5:17
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    17This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.

  • Isa 60:2
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    2For truly, the earth will be dark, and the peoples veiled in blackest night; but the Lord will be shining on you, and his glory will be seen among you.

  • Isa 8:20
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    20Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the witness. ... If they do not say such things. ... For him there is no dawn. ...

  • Job 15:23
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    23He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:

  • 1 Thess 5:4
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    4But you, my brothers, are not in the dark, for that day to overtake you like a thief: