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!

Genesis 7:11-19

7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month – on that day all the fountains of the great deep ²  burst open and the floodgates of the heavens ³  were opened. 7:12 And the rain fell ⁴  on the earth forty days and forty nights.

7:13 On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons’ three wives. ⁵  7:14 They entered, ⁶  along with every living creature after its kind, every animal after its kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, everything with wings. ⁷  7:15 Pairs ⁸  of all creatures ⁹  that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah. 7:16 Those that entered were male and female, ¹⁰  just as God commanded him. Then the Lord shut him in.

7:17 The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth. 7:18 The waters completely overwhelmed ¹¹  the earth, and the ark floated ¹²  on the surface of the waters. 7:19 The waters completely inundated ¹³  the earth so that even ¹⁴  all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.

Jeremiah 5:22

5:22 “You should fear me!” says the Lord.

“You should tremble in awe before me! ¹⁵ 

I made the sand to be a boundary for the sea,

a permanent barrier that it can never cross.

Its waves may roll, but they can never prevail.

They may roar, but they can never cross beyond that boundary.” ¹⁶ 

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

[7:11]  ² tn The Hebrew term תְּהוֹם (tÿhom, “deep”) refers to the watery deep, the salty ocean – especially the primeval ocean that surrounds and underlies the earth (see Gen 1:2).

[7:11]  ³ sn On the prescientific view of the sky reflected here, see L. I. J. Stadelmann, The Hebrew Conception of the World (AnBib), 46.

[7:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “was.”

[7:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “On that very day Noah entered, and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah, and the three wives of his sons with him into the ark.”

[7:14]  ⁶ tn The verb “entered” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[7:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “every bird, every wing.”

[7:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “two two” meaning “in twos.”

[7:15]  ⁹ tn Heb “flesh.”

[7:16]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Those that went in, male and female from all flesh they went in.”

[7:18]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and the waters were great and multiplied exceedingly.” The first verb in the sequence is וַיִּגְבְּרוּ (vayyigbÿru, from גָּבַר, gavar), meaning “to become great, mighty.” The waters did not merely rise; they “prevailed” over the earth, overwhelming it.

[7:18]  ¹² tn Heb “went.”

[7:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “and the waters were great exceedingly, exceedingly.” The repetition emphasizes the depth of the waters.

[7:19]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and.”

[5:22]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Should you not fear me? Should you not tremble in awe before me?” The rhetorical questions expect the answer explicit in the translation.

[5:22]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “it.” The referent is made explicit to avoid any possible confusion.