“Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light. As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him. Won’t the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
⛓ Read Amos 5 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Amos memorably reframes the day of the Lord as darkness and not light, an inversion that Paul exploits when he contrasts the children of light/day with those overtaken in darkness (5:4-5). The thematic pairing of the Day with darkness and sudden doom is shared.
High confidenceAmos's reversal of the Day of the Lord into darkness rather than light is foundational to the NT's sober expectation of that day. Paul's warning against premature certainty draws on this prophetic gravity.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The reversal whereby those who presume entry are shut out ('Lord, Lord, open to us' / 'I don't know you') resonates with the prophetic Day of the LORD warning that the day will be darkness for the complacent, not the light they expected.
Low confidence