Amos 8:9-11
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"And on that day," declares the Lord God,
s "I will make the sun go down at noon
and darken the earth in broad daylight.
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t I will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation;
u I will bring sackcloth on every waist
u and baldness on every head;
v I will make it like the mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.
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"Behold, the days are coming," declares the Lord God,
"when w I will send a famine on the land -
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
x but of hearing the words of the Lord.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 15:9
She who bore seven has grown feeble; she has fainted away; her sun went down while it was yet day; she has been shamed and disgraced. And the rest of them I will give to the sword before their enemies, declares the Lord.
Micah 3:6
Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without divination. The sun shall go down on the prophets, and the day shall be black over them.
Matthew 24:29
Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Amos 4:13
For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth - the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!
Amos 5:8
He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 7:34
And I will silence in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, for the land shall become a waste.
Jeremiah 16:9
For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will silence in this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
Hosea 2:11
And I will put an end to all her mirth, her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her appointed feasts.
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Cross References
Isaiah 3:24
Instead of perfume there will be rottenness; and instead of a belt, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a skirt of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.
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Cross References
Isaiah 3:24
Instead of perfume there will be rottenness; and instead of a belt, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a skirt of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 6:26
O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
Zechariah 12:10
And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.
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Cross References
Isaiah 8:20 - 21
To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.
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Cross References
Psalms 74:9
We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long.
Proverbs 29:18
Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law.
Micah 3:7
The seers shall be disgraced, and the diviners put to shame; they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.
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