9It will happen in that day,| says the Lord Yahweh, |that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.


In Context

6 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'|

7 Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, |Surely I will never forget any of their works.

8 Won't the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.

9 It will happen in that day,| says the Lord Yahweh, |that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

10 I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.

11 Behold, the days come,| says the Lord Yahweh, |that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Yahweh.

Amos 8:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:9And 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:

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:9"In that day," declares the Sovereign Lord , "I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:9And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:9And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that the sun shall go down at midday, and I will make the earth dark in the day of light:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:9And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the land in the clear day.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:9And 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:9And 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:

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:9And it hath come to pass in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, I have caused the sun to go in at noon, And caused darkness on the land in a day of light,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:9And it shall come to pass in that day, said the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day: