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 8:11

8:11 Be certain of this, ²  the time is ³  coming,” says the sovereign Lord,

“when I will send a famine through the land –

not a shortage of food or water

but an end to divine revelation! ⁴ 

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

[8:11]  ² tn Heb “behold” or “look.”

[8:11]  ³ tn Heb “the days are.”

[8:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “not a hunger for food or a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of the Lord.”