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He turns the light of dawn into darkness and treads on the heights of the earth. The LORD God of Heaven’s Armies is his name! <a href="/esv/amos/4.htm">English Standard Version</a> For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth— the LORD, the God of hosts, is his name! <a href="/bsb/amos/4.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.” <a href="/kjv/amos/4.htm">King James Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nkjv/amos/4.htm">New King James Version</a> For behold, He who forms mountains, And creates the wind, Who declares to man what his thought is, And makes the morning darkness, Who treads the high places of the earth— The LORD God of hosts is His name. <a href="/nasb_/amos/4.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> For behold, He who forms mountains and creates the wind, And declares to a person what are His thoughts, He who makes dawn into darkness And treads on the high places of the earth, The LORD God of armies is His name. <a href="/nasb/amos/4.htm">NASB 1995</a> For behold, He who forms mountains and creates the wind And declares to man what are His thoughts, He who makes dawn into darkness And treads on the high places of the earth, The LORD God of hosts is His name. <a href="/nasb77/amos/4.htm">NASB 1977 </a> For behold, He who forms mountains and creates the wind And declares to man what are His thoughts, He who makes dawn into darkness And treads on the high places of the earth, The LORD God of hosts is His name. <a href="/lsb/amos/4.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> For behold, He who forms mountains and creates the wind And declares to man what are His thoughts, He who makes dawn into gloom And treads on the high places of the earth, Yahweh God of hosts is His name. <a href="/amp/amos/4.htm">Amplified Bible</a> For behold, He who forms the mountains and creates the wind And declares to man what are His thoughts, He who makes the dawn into darkness And treads on the heights of the earth— The LORD God of hosts is His name. <a href="/csb/amos/4.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> He is here: the one who forms the mountains, creates the wind, and reveals his thoughts to man, the one who makes the dawn out of darkness and strides on the heights of the earth. The LORD, the God of Armies, is his name. <a href="/hcsb/amos/4.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> He is here: the One who forms the mountains, creates the wind, and reveals His thoughts to man, the One who makes the dawn out of darkness and strides on the heights of the earth. Yahweh, the God of Hosts, is His name. <a href="/asv/amos/4.htm">American Standard Version</a> 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? Jehovah, the God of hosts, is his name. <a href="/cev/amos/4.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> I created the mountains and the wind. I let humans know what I am thinking. I bring darkness at dawn and step over hills. I am the LORD God All-Powerful! <a href="/erv/amos/4.htm">English Revised Version</a> 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. <a href="/gwt/amos/4.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> God forms the mountains and creates the wind. He reveals his thoughts to humans. He makes dawn and dusk [appear]. He walks on the high places of the earth. His name is the LORD God of Armies. <a href="/gnt/amos/4.htm">Good News Translation</a> God is the one who made the mountains and created the winds. He makes his thoughts known to people; he changes day into night. He walks on the heights of the earth. This is his name: the LORD God Almighty! <a href="/isv/amos/4.htm">International Standard Version</a> Look! The one who crafts mountains, who creates the wind, who reveals what he is thinking to mankind, who darkens the morning light, who tramples down the high places of the land— the LORD, the God of the Heavenly Armies is his name. <a href="/msb/amos/4.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth?the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.? <a href="/net/amos/4.htm">NET Bible</a> For here he is! He formed the mountains and created the wind. He reveals his plans to men. He turns the dawn into darkness and marches on the heights of the earth. The LORD, the God who commands armies, is his name!" <a href="/nheb/amos/4.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> For, look, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: The LORD, the God of hosts, is his name." <a href="/wbt/amos/4.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> For lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth to 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. <a href="/web/amos/4.htm">World English Bible</a> For, behold, he who forms the mountains, creates the wind, declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.” <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/amos/4.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> For behold, the Former of mountains, and Creator of wind, "" And the Declarer to man what [is] His thought, "" He is making dawn obscurity, "" And is treading on high places of earth, "" YHWH, God of Hosts, [is] His Name! <a href="/ylt/amos/4.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> For, lo, the former of mountains, and creator of wind, And the declarer to man what is His thought, He is making dawn obscurity, And is treading on high places of earth, Jehovah, God of Hosts, is His name! <a href="/slt/amos/4.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> For behold, he forming the mountains and creating the wind, and announcing to man his meditation, making the morning darkness and treading upon the heights of the earth, Jehovah, God of armies his name.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/amos/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> For behold he that formeth the mountains and createth the wind, and declareth his word to man, he that maketh the morning mist, and walketh upon the high places of the earth: the Lord the God of hosts is his name. <a href="/cpdv/amos/4.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind and announces his speech to man, who makes the morning mist and steps over the heights of the earth: the Lord God of hosts is his name. <a href="/nabre/amos/4.htm">New American Bible</a> The one who forms mountains and creates winds, and declares to mortals their thoughts; Who makes dawn into darkness and strides upon the heights of the earth, the LORD, the God of hosts, is his name! <a href="/nrsvce/amos/4.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> For lo, the one who forms the mountains, creates the wind, reveals his thoughts to mortals, makes the morning darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth— the LORD, the God of hosts, is his name!<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/amos/4.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> For lo, he who creates the wind and creates the mountains and declares to man what is his glory, who makes the morning darkness and walks upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, the God of hosts, is his name. <a href="/hpbt/amos/4.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> Because he who created the wind and created the mountains and shows to the children of man what his glory is, he makes dawn a blackness and treads on the height of the Earth; LORD JEHOVAH God Almighty is his name <div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/amos/4.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> 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. <a href="/sep/amos/4.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> For, behold, I am he that strengthens the thunder, and creates the wind, and proclaims to men his Christ, forming the morning and the darkness, and mounting on the high places of the earth, The Lord God Almighty is his name. <a href="/parallel/amos/4-13.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u4uh7eMswjw?start=678" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/amos/4.htm">Punishment Brings No Repentance</a> …12“Therefore, that is what I will do to you, O Israel, and since I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel! 13<a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">For</a> <a href="/hebrew/2009.htm" title="2009: hin·nêh (Interjection) -- Lo! behold! Prolongation for hen; lo!">behold,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3335.htm" title="3335: yō·w·ṣêr (V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- Probably identical with yatsar;); to mould into a form; especially as a potter; figuratively, to determine (i.e. Form a resolution).">He who forms</a> <a href="/hebrew/2022.htm" title="2022: hā·rîm (N-mp) -- Mountain, hill, hill country. A shortened form of harar; a mountain or range of hills.">the mountains,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1254.htm" title="1254: ū·ḇō·rê (Conj-w:: V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- To create, to cut down, select, feed. A primitive root; to create; to cut down, select, feed.">who creates</a> <a href="/hebrew/7307.htm" title="7307: rū·aḥ (N-cs) -- Breath, wind, spirit. From ruwach; wind; by resemblance breath.">the wind</a> <a href="/hebrew/5046.htm" title="5046: ū·mag·gîḏ (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-Prtcpl-ms) -- To be conspicuous. ">and reveals</a> <a href="/hebrew/7808.htm" title="7808: śê·ḥōw (N-msc:: 3ms) -- A thought. For siyach; communion, i.e. meditation.">His thoughts</a> <a href="/hebrew/120.htm" title="120: lə·’ā·ḏām (Prep-l:: N-ms) -- Man, mankind. From 'adam; ruddy i.e. A human being.">to man,</a> <a href="/hebrew/4100.htm" title="4100: mah- (Interrog) -- What? how? anything. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: ‘ō·śêh (V-Qal-Prtcpl-msc) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">who turns</a> <a href="/hebrew/7837.htm" title="7837: ša·ḥar (N-ms) -- Dawn. From shachar; dawn.">the dawn</a> <a href="/hebrew/5890.htm" title="5890: ‘ê·p̄āh (N-fs) -- Darkness. Feminine from uwph; obscurity.">to darkness</a> <a href="/hebrew/1869.htm" title="1869: wə·ḏō·rêḵ (Conj-w:: V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- To tread, march. A primitive root; to tread; by implication, to walk; also to string a bow.">and strides</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">on</a> <a href="/hebrew/1116.htm" title="1116: bā·mo·ṯê (N-fpc) -- A high place. From an unused root; an elevation.">the heights</a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: ’ā·reṣ (N-fs) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">of the earth—</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">the LORD,</a> <a href="/hebrew/430.htm" title="430: ’ĕ·lō·hê- (N-mpc) -- Plural of 'elowahh; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used of the supreme God">the God</a> <a href="/hebrew/6635.htm" title="6635: ṣə·ḇā·’ō·wṯ (N-cp) -- Or tsbadah; from tsaba'; a mass of persons, especially reg. Organized for war; by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively.">of Hosts,</a> <a href="/hebrew/8034.htm" title="8034: šə·mōw (N-msc:: 3ms) -- A primitive word; an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character.">is His name.”</a> <div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/job/9-8.htm">Job 9:8-10</a> He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea. / He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, of the Pleiades and the constellations of the south. / He does great things beyond searching out, and wonders without number. <a href="/isaiah/40-28.htm">Isaiah 40:28</a> Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out. <a href="/jeremiah/10-12.htm">Jeremiah 10:12-13</a> The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding. / When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses. <a href="/psalms/104-24.htm">Psalm 104:24</a> How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures. <a href="/psalms/33-6.htm">Psalm 33:6-9</a> By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the stars by the breath of His mouth. / He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses. / Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the people of the world revere Him. ... <a href="/isaiah/45-7.htm">Isaiah 45:7</a> I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things. <a href="/psalms/139-2.htm">Psalm 139:2-4</a> You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar. / You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways. / Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD. <a href="/isaiah/42-5.htm">Isaiah 42:5</a> This is what God the LORD says—He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it: <a href="/psalms/146-6.htm">Psalm 146:6</a> the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He remains faithful forever. <a href="/jeremiah/51-15.htm">Jeremiah 51:15-16</a> The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding. / When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses. <a href="/hebrews/4-13.htm">Hebrews 4:13</a> Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. <a href="/colossians/1-16.htm">Colossians 1:16-17</a> For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him. / He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. <a href="/john/1-1.htm">John 1:1-3</a> In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. / He was with God in the beginning. / Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made. <a href="/romans/11-33.htm">Romans 11:33-36</a> O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways! / “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?” / “Who has first given to God, that God should repay him?” ... <a href="/revelation/4-11.htm">Revelation 4:11</a> “Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things; by Your will they exist and were created.”</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>For, see, he that forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, that makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.he that.<a href="/job/38-4.htm">Job 38:4-11</a> Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding… <a href="/psalms/65-6.htm">Psalm 65:6</a> Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power:<a href="/isaiah/40-12.htm">Isaiah 40:12</a> Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?and createth.<a href="/psalms/135-7.htm">Psalm 135:7</a> He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.<a href="/psalms/147-18.htm">Psalm 147:18</a> He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.<a href="/jeremiah/10-13.htm">Jeremiah 10:13</a> When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.wind.<a href="/john/3-8.htm">John 3:8</a> The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.and declareth.<a href="/psalms/139-2.htm">Psalm 139:2</a> Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.<a href="/daniel/2-28.htm">Daniel 2:28</a> But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;<a href="/matthew/9-4.htm">Matthew 9:4</a> And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?that maketh.<a href="/amos/5-8.htm">Amos 5:8</a> Seek 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:<a href="/amos/8-9.htm">Amos 8:9</a> 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:<a href="/exodus/10-22.htm">Exodus 10:22</a> And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:and treadeth.<a href="/deuteronomy/32-13.htm">Deuteronomy 32:13</a> He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/amos/3-13.htm">Armies</a> <a href="/numbers/16-30.htm">Creates</a> <a href="/isaiah/57-19.htm">Createth</a> <a href="/joel/2-31.htm">Darkness</a> <a href="/amos/4-11.htm">Declares</a> <a href="/hosea/4-12.htm">Declareth</a> <a href="/amos/3-14.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/jeremiah/33-2.htm">Formeth</a> <a href="/ezekiel/43-11.htm">Forms</a> <a href="/amos/4-3.htm">High</a> <a href="/joel/2-32.htm">Makes</a> <a href="/hosea/7-1.htm">Maketh</a> <a href="/amos/4-4.htm">Morning</a> <a href="/amos/3-9.htm">Mountains</a> <a href="/amos/4-6.htm">Places</a> <a href="/amos/1-9.htm">Thought</a> <a href="/daniel/7-23.htm">Treadeth</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-11.htm">Treads</a> <a href="/amos/4-9.htm">Wind</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/amos/5-14.htm">Armies</a> <a href="/romans/14-20.htm">Creates</a> <a href="/isaiah/57-19.htm">Createth</a> <a href="/amos/5-8.htm">Darkness</a> <a href="/amos/6-14.htm">Declares</a> <a href="/habakkuk/2-3.htm">Declareth</a> <a href="/amos/5-7.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/zechariah/12-1.htm">Formeth</a> <a href="/zechariah/12-1.htm">Forms</a> <a href="/amos/6-8.htm">High</a> <a href="/amos/5-8.htm">Makes</a> <a href="/amos/5-8.htm">Maketh</a> <a href="/amos/5-8.htm">Morning</a> <a href="/amos/9-13.htm">Mountains</a> <a href="/amos/5-16.htm">Places</a> <a href="/jonah/1-6.htm">Thought</a> <a href="/micah/5-6.htm">Treadeth</a> <a href="/micah/1-3.htm">Treads</a> <a href="/jonah/1-4.htm">Wind</a><div class="vheading2">Amos 4</div>1. <a href="/amos/4-1.htm">He reproves Israel for oppression,</a> 4. <a href="/amos/4-4.htm">for idolatry,</a> 6. <a href="/amos/4-6.htm">and for their incorrigibleness.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/amos/4.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/amos/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/amos/4.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>For behold, He who forms the mountains This phrase emphasizes God's power and sovereignty as the Creator. The mountains, often seen as symbols of strength and stability, are crafted by God, highlighting His supreme authority over creation. In biblical times, mountains were also places of divine revelation, such as Mount Sinai where Moses received the Law (Exodus 19). This underscores God's role as the ultimate source of wisdom and law.who creates the wind The wind is a symbol of God's invisible yet powerful presence. In Hebrew, the word for wind, "ruach," can also mean spirit, indicating the divine breath of life (<a href="/genesis/2-7.htm">Genesis 2:7</a>). This creation of the wind signifies God's control over the natural world and His ability to influence events and people, as seen in the parting of the Red Sea (<a href="/exodus/14-21.htm">Exodus 14:21</a>).and reveals His thoughts to man God's revelation to humanity is a central theme in the Bible. Through prophets like Amos, God communicates His will and intentions. This phrase highlights the importance of prophecy and the role of prophets as God's messengers. It also points to the ultimate revelation of God through Jesus Christ, who is the Word made flesh (<a href="/john/1-14.htm">John 1:14</a>).who turns the dawn to darkness This imagery of altering the natural order serves as a metaphor for God's judgment. It reflects the theme of divine retribution found throughout the prophetic books, where God warns of impending judgment due to Israel's disobedience. This phrase can also be seen as a foreshadowing of the darkness that covered the land during Christ's crucifixion (<a href="/matthew/27-45.htm">Matthew 27:45</a>).and strides on the heights of the earth This expression conveys God's majesty and omnipresence. The "heights of the earth" symbolize places of power and authority, suggesting that God is above all earthly rulers and powers. It echoes the imagery of God as a warrior and king, as seen in passages like <a href="/psalms/47-2.htm">Psalm 47:2</a>, where God is described as the "great King over all the earth."the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name. This declaration affirms God's identity and His command over the heavenly armies. "LORD" (Yahweh) is the covenant name of God, emphasizing His faithfulness to His people. "God of Hosts" underscores His role as the leader of the angelic forces, ready to execute His will. This title is a reminder of God's ultimate authority and the assurance of His protection and justice, as seen in the deliverance of Israel from their enemies (<a href="/2_kings/6-17.htm">2 Kings 6:17</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/a/amos.htm">Amos</a> A prophet from the southern kingdom of Judah, Amos was called by God to deliver a message of judgment to the northern kingdom of Israel. His prophecies are characterized by a strong emphasis on social justice and the sovereignty of God. 2. <a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a> The northern kingdom, which had fallen into idolatry and social injustice. Amos's message was directed towards their spiritual and moral failings. 3. <a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God (Yahweh)</a> The sovereign Creator and Judge, who is depicted in <a href="/amos/4-13.htm">Amos 4:13</a> as the one who forms the mountains, creates the wind, and reveals His thoughts to man.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty.htm">God's Sovereignty</a> <a href="/amos/4-13.htm">Amos 4:13</a> emphasizes God's ultimate authority over creation and history. Recognizing His sovereignty should lead us to trust in His plans and purposes, even when they are beyond our understanding. <a href="/topical/g/god's_revelation.htm">God's Revelation</a> The verse highlights that God reveals His thoughts to humanity. This underscores the importance of seeking God's guidance through prayer and Scripture, as He desires to communicate with us. <a href="/topical/a/accountability_to_god.htm">Accountability to God</a> As the Creator who knows our thoughts, God holds us accountable for our actions. This should encourage us to live righteously and justly, aligning our lives with His will. <a href="/topical/t/the_power_of_creation.htm">The Power of Creation</a> The imagery of God forming mountains and creating the wind serves as a reminder of His immense power. This should inspire awe and worship, recognizing that the same God who created the universe is actively involved in our lives.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_amos_4.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Amos 4</a> <a href="/q/is_there_a_god.htm">Is there a God?</a> <a href="/q/what_does_''three_sins,_even_four''_mean.htm">What does 'three sins, even four' mean in the Bible?</a> <a href="/q/micah_1_3__god_descending_vs._science.htm">Micah 1:3 – How can the imagery of God physically descending and treading on the earth be reconciled with modern scientific understanding of the natural world? </a> <a href="/q/is_amos_9_13's_prophecy_literal_or_symbolic.htm">Amos 9:13 - Is the prophecy of the plowman overtaking the reaper a literal farming impossibility, and does it conflict with more realistic agricultural references elsewhere in scripture?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/amos/4.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(13) God of hosts.--The Lord whom they have to meet is no mere national deity, but the supreme Creator.Createth the wind.--Not "spirit" (as margin). But the two ideas "wind" and "spirit" were closely associated in Heb. (as in Greek), being designated by the same word ruach (in Greek ??????, comp. <a href="/john/3-8.htm" title="The wind blows where it wants, and you hear the sound thereof, but can not tell from where it comes, and where it goes: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.">John 3:8</a>). Hence the transition in thought to the next clause is natural. This is curiously rendered in LXX. "and declareth to man his Christ" through a misunderstanding of the original.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/amos/4.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 13. - The prophet enforces his threats by declaring God's power and omniscience. He that formeth the mountain; ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ στερεῶν βροντήν, "I am he that strengtheneth thunder" (Septuagint, reading differently). The mountains are mentioned as the most solid and everlasting of his works; the wind, as the subtlest and most immaterial of created things. Declareth unto man what is his thought; i.e. man's thought; reveals man to himself shows that he knows man's thought before man puts it into words. This he does sometimes by the stings of conscience, sometimes by inspiring his prophets to declare men's secret motives and the real state of their heart (see <a href="/jeremiah/17-9.htm">Jeremiah 17:9</a>, l0; and comp. <a href="/1_john/3-20.htm">1 John 3:20</a>). Vulgate, Annuntians homini eloquium suum, where eloquium is equivalent to cognitatio. The LXX., with some change of letters, has, ἀπαγγέλλων εἰς ἀνθρώπους τὸν Ξριστὸν αὐτοῦ, "proclaiming unto men his Christ" - a reading which supports the misinterpretation of "his thought" as meaning God's thought, Christ being regarded as the Λόγος of God. Many of the Fathers have seen here a prophesy of the Messiah. See Tirinus and Corn. a Lapide on this verse. That maketh the morning darkness. Keil, after Calvin, takes these words as asyndeton for "the morning dawn and darkness." So the Septuagint, ποιῶν ὅρθρον καὶ ὁμίχλην, "making morning and gloom." This would be simply a further instance of God's creative power. The Vulgate gives, faciens matutinam nebulam; and it seems probable (comp. <a href="/amos/5-8.htm">Amos 5:8</a>; <a href="/amos/8-9.htm">Amos 8:9</a>) that the clause means that the Lord turns the dawn into darkness. This may refer to the action of clouds or an eclipse; or it may be said metaphorically of prosperity and adversity. Treadeth upon the high places of the earth. An anthropomorphic representation of the might and majesty of God, who governs all things, and has the loftiest in perfect subjection (comp. <a href="/deuteronomy/32-13.htm">Deuteronomy 32:13</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/33-29.htm">Deuteronomy 33:29</a>; <a href="/job/9-8.htm">Job 9:8</a>; <a href="/micah/1-3.htm">Micah 1:3</a>). The Lord, Jehovah, the eternal, self-existent, covenant God, is he who in these things manifests himself, and therefore his threats are not to be despised (<a href="/amos/5-8.htm">Amos 5:8</a>). In the prophet's view the laws and powers of nature have their scope in executing God's commands. <a href="/commentaries/amos/4-13.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>For כִּ֡י (kî) Conjunction <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> A relative conjunction behold, הִנֵּה֩ (hin·nêh) Interjection <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2009.htm">Strong's 2009: </a> Lo! behold! He who forms יוֹצֵ֨ר (yō·w·ṣêr) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3335.htm">Strong's 3335: </a> To mould into a, form, as a, potter, to determine the mountains, הָרִ֜ים (hā·rîm) Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2022.htm">Strong's 2022: </a> Mountain, hill, hill country who creates וּבֹרֵ֣א (ū·ḇō·rê) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1254.htm">Strong's 1254: </a> To create, to cut down, select, feed the wind, ר֗וּחַ (rū·aḥ) Noun - common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7307.htm">Strong's 7307: </a> Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit and reveals וּמַגִּ֤יד (ū·mag·gîḏ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5046.htm">Strong's 5046: </a> To be conspicuous His thoughts שֵּׂח֔וֹ (śê·ḥōw) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7808.htm">Strong's 7808: </a> Communion, meditation to man, לְאָדָם֙ (lə·’ā·ḏām) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_120.htm">Strong's 120: </a> Ruddy, a human being the One who turns עֹשֵׂ֥ה (‘ō·śêh) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> To do, make the dawn שַׁ֙חַר֙ (ša·ḥar) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7837.htm">Strong's 7837: </a> Dawn to darkness עֵיפָ֔ה (‘ê·p̄āh) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5890.htm">Strong's 5890: </a> Obscurity and strides וְדֹרֵ֖ךְ (wə·ḏō·rêḵ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1869.htm">Strong's 1869: </a> To tread, to walk, to string a, bow on עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> Above, over, upon, against the heights בָּ֣מֳתֵי (bā·mo·ṯê) Noun - feminine plural construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1116.htm">Strong's 1116: </a> An elevation of the earth, אָ֑רֶץ (’ā·reṣ) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> Earth, land the LORD, יְהוָ֥ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel the God אֱלֹהֵֽי־ (’ĕ·lō·hê-) Noun - masculine plural construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_430.htm">Strong's 430: </a> gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative of Hosts, צְבָא֖וֹת (ṣə·ḇā·’ō·wṯ) Noun - common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6635.htm">Strong's 6635: </a> A mass of persons, reg, organized for, war, a campaign is His name.” שְׁמֽוֹ׃ (šə·mōw) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8034.htm">Strong's 8034: </a> A name <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/amos/4-13.htm">Amos 4:13 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/amos/4-13.htm">Amos 4:13 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/amos/4-13.htm">Amos 4:13 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/amos/4-13.htm">Amos 4:13 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/amos/4-13.htm">Amos 4:13 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/amos/4-13.htm">Amos 4:13 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/amos/4-13.htm">Amos 4:13 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/amos/4-13.htm">Amos 4:13 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/amos/4-13.htm">Amos 4:13 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/amos/4-13.htm">Amos 4:13 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/amos/4-13.htm">OT Prophets: Amos 4:13 For behold he who forms the mountains (Amo. 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