8Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:
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For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.
Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-15)This is a message from God to the house of Israel, in which, I. They are told of their faults, that they might see what occasion there was for them to repent and reform, and that, when they were called to return, they might not need to ask, Wherein shall we return ? 1. God tells them, in general (Amos 5:12), “ I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins ; and you shall be made to kno…
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