Amos 5:8 (WEB)

Passage

seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

Nearby Context

Amos 5:6 Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

Amos 5:7 You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:

Amos 5:8 seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

Amos 5:9 who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress.

Amos 5:10 They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "seek", "pleiades", "orion", "turns", "shadow", "death", "morning", and "makes". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "seek" and "pleiades", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 7's "You who turn justice to wormwood and..." into verse 9's "who brings sudden destruction on the strong...", so "seek" and "pleiades" belong inside that flow. In Amos context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "seek" and "pleiades" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.