Amos 5:20

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Amos 5:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible

18 Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.

19 It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.

20 Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?

21 “I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.

22 Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 3:4

If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it.

Job 3:5

May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.

Job 3:6

If only darkness had taken that night away! May it not appear among the days of the year; may it never be entered in any of the months.

Job 10:21

before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom,

Job 10:22

to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

Isaiah 13:10

For 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.

Ezekiel 34:12

As a shepherd looks for his scattered sheep when he is among the flock, so I will look for My flock. I will rescue them from all the places to which they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.

Nahum 1:8

But with an overwhelming flood He will make an end of Nineveh and pursue His enemies into darkness.

Matthew 22:13

Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

Jude 1:13

They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.

Revelation 16:10

And the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness, and men began to gnaw their tongues in anguish