Amos 5:18
Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
KJV
Væ desiderantibus diem Domini ! ad quid eam vobis ? Dies Domini ista, tenebræ, et non lux.
Vulgate
οὐαὶ οἱ ἐπιθυμοῦντες τὴν ἡμέραν Κυρίου· ἵνα τί αὕτη ὑμῖν ἡ ἡμέρα τοῦ κυρίου; καὶ αὕτη ἐστὶν σκότος καὶ οὐ φῶς.
LXX
Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah! Wherefore would ye have the day of Jehovah? It is darkness, and not light.
ASV
ה֥וֹי הַ/מִּתְאַוִּ֖ים אֶת י֣וֹם יְהוָ֑ה לָ/מָּה זֶּ֥ה לָ/כֶ֛ם י֥וֹם יְהוָ֖ה הוּא חֹ֥שֶׁךְ וְ/לֹא אֽוֹר
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
א֣וֹר
'vr
noun · 120×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
ה֖וּא
hv'
pronoun · 1878×
ה֣וֹי
hvy
particle · 51×
זֶּֽה
zh
pronoun · 1173×
חֹ֔שֶׁךְ
chshk
noun · 80×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
מַה
mh
particle · 745×
תְּאַוֶּ֖ה
t'vh
verb · 28×
Themes
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 2Pet 3:4 — And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
- Ezek 12:22 — Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?
- Ezek 12:27 — Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are far off.
- Ezek 13:5 — Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.
- Isa 5:19 — That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
- Isa 5:19 — That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
- Isa 5:30 — And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
- Isa 9:19 — Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
- Isa 13:6 — Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
- Isa 22:5 — For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
- Isa 24:11 — There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
- Jer 5:6 — Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: becau
- Jer 30:7 — Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.
- Jer 30:7 — Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.
- Job 3:4 — Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
- Joel 1:15 — Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
- Joel 2:1 — Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
- Joel 2:2 — A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be a
- Joel 2:10 — The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
- Joel 2:31 — The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
- Lam 3:2 — He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
- Luke 23:44 — And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
- Mal 3:1 — Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold,
- Mal 3:2 — But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
- Mal 4:1 — For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that i
- Zeph 1:7 — Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.
- Zeph 1:14 — The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.