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Amos 9:6
He builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His vault upon the earth. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth. The LORD is His name.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The prophet Amos records the Lord God of Hosts addressing the children of Israel during a declaration of His cosmic sovereignty and impending judgment.
The words — בּוֹנֶה (bo.Neh) translates literally as "who builds," and קֹרֵא (ko.Re') as "who summons," identifying God as the architect of the heavens and the commander of elemental waters.
The thread — This pattern of divine construction and command recurs in Psalms 104:3, Amos 5:8, and Amos 4:13, consistently pairing Yahweh's creative acts with His active rule over history.
Why it lands — The text states that Yahweh constructs the upper rooms of heaven, establishes the earth, and pours out the sea's waters. This requires the reader to acknowledge that the same sovereign name governs both nature and human destiny, demanding accountability rather than presumption.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.
Cross-references
- Psalms 104:3 laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.
- Amos 5:8 He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth—the LORD is His name—
- Amos 4:13 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.”
- Psalms 104:13 He waters the mountains from His chambers; the earth is satisfied by the fruit of His works.
- Jeremiah 5:22 Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.
- Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
- Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
- Exodus 3:14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
- Psalms 104:5 He set the earth on its foundations, never to be moved.