Amos 5:8

5:8 (But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion;

he can turn the darkness into morning

and daylight ¹  into night.

He summons the water of the seas

and pours it out on the earth’s surface.

The Lord is his name!

Amos 9:2

9:2 Even if they could dig down into the netherworld, ² 

my hand would pull them up from there.

Even if they could climb up to heaven,

I would drag them down from there.

[5:8]  ¹ tn Heb “darkens the day into night.”

[9:2]  ² tn Heb “into Sheol” (so ASV, NASB, NRSV), that is, the land of the dead localized in Hebrew thought in the earth’s core or the grave. Cf. KJV “hell”; NCV, NLT “the place of the dead”; NIV “the depths of the grave.”