Amos 5:8-9
8 But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion;
he can turn the darkness into morning
and daylight ▼
▼tn Heb “darkens the day into night.”
into night. He summons the water of the seas
and pours it out on the earth’s surface.
The Lord is his name!
9 He flashes ▼
▼tn The precise meaning of the Hebrew verb בָּלַג (balag, translated here “flashes”) is uncertain.
destruction down upon the strong so that destruction overwhelms ▼
▼tn Heb “comes upon.” Many prefer to repoint the verb as Hiphil and translate, “he brings destruction upon the fortified places.”
the fortified places.
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