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Amos 5:18-14

AMOS—NOTE ON Amos 5:18 This fourth message (see note on 2:6–6:14) gives details about the kinds of sins that will provoke Israel’s “funeral” as a nation (see note on 5:16–17). Three times the funeral cry of “Woe” appears: Amos 5:18; Amos 6:1; Amos 6:4. Each woe introduces another category of sin.

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See also Amos 5:18-14 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 18. _WO UNTO YOU THAT DESIRE THE DAY OF THE LORD_] The prophet had often denounced the coming of _God's day_, that is, of a _time of judgment_; and the unbelievers had said, "Let his day come, t...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WOE UNTO YOU THAT DESIRE - for yourselves. THE DAY OF THE LORD - There were “mockers in those days” 2 Peter 3:3; Jude 1:18, as there are now, and as there shall be in the last. And as the “scoffers in...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 5 The Third Discourse _ 1. The lamentation (Amos 5:1) _ 2. Seek the Lord and ye shall live (Amos 5:4) 3. The wailing (Amos 5:16) 4. The captivity announced ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISRAEL'S DELUSIONS. The prophet resumes the subject of Israel's delusions, how she disregards the essential conditions of real welfare. In Amos 5:18 he deals with a peculiar example of this, the conce...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WOE. The first woe. See the Structure above. the day of the LORD. See notes on Isaiah 2:12; Isaiah 13:6; Joel 2:1 DARKNESS, AND NOT LIGHT. Note the Figure of speech _Pleonasm_ (App-6) for emphasis. Co...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Woe unto you that_ AH! THEY THAT. … The interjection _Hôy_(the same as that used in 1 Kings 13:30 &c. quoted on Amos 5:16) implies commiseration rather than denunciation. It is used frequently, as he...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Those who desire the "Day of Jehovah," as though it could be anything but an interposition in their favour, will find to their surprise that it is a day fraught with peril and disaster....

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _JUDGMENT IS COMING -- AMOS 5:16-20 _ Many of the people of Israel were wanting God's judgment to come. But they were in for trouble! It would not be a time of sunshine; all would be darkness. God had...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WOE UNTO YOU, &C.— _Woe unto them that wish for the day of the Lord. And why? To you the day of the Lord will be,_ &c. Infidels made a mock at the words of the prophets, when they told them the day of...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    RIGHTEOUSNESS DEMANDS REPENTANCEHATE EVIL AND LOVE GOD TEXT: Amos 5:14-20 14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be with you, as ye say. 15 Hate the...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. WOE UNTO YOU THAT DESIRE THE DAY OF THE LORD! - Woe unto you who do not scru...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DAY OF THE LORD] see Intro., and cp. Isaiah 5:30; Isaiah 8:22; Joel 2:2; Obadiah 1:15. 21. Festivals such as Tabernacles ...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE THIRD ADDRESS 1-6. A lament, a warning, and an invitation. 7, 10-20. Denunciation of injustice and oppression, with threats of pestilence and judgment. 21-27. A repudiation of their attempt to...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 5 GOD ENCOURAGES ISRAEL’S PEOPLE TO COME BACK TO HIM V1 People in Israel, listen to this song. ‘This funeral song is ab...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    DESIRE THE DAY OF THE LORD. — Expecting that day to bring you deliverance and judgments upon your enemies. It shall bring the reverse! There is a dark side to the pillar of fire....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֹ֥וי הַ מִּתְאַוִּ֖ים אֶת ־יֹ֣ום יְהוָ֑ה לָמ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    2. FOR WORSHIP, JUSTICE Amos 5:1 In the next of these groups of oracles Amos continues his attack on the national ritual, and now contrasts it with the service of God in public life-the relief of the...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A DARK DAY FOR HYPOCRITES Amos 5:16-27 Mighty sins had been committed, and mighty judgments were at hand. The oppression of the poor, Amos 5:11; the erection of elegant dwellings from unrighteous ex...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The third discourse was a description of Jehovah's judgment. This opened with a lamentation for the virgin of Israel, "The virgin of Israel is fallen, she shall no more rise, she is cast down upon her...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Woe unto you that (k) desire the day of the LORD! to what end [is] it for you? the day of the LORD [is] darkness, and not light. (k) He speaks in this way because the wicked and hypocrites said they w...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _The day. Some imprudently laughed at the prophets, Isaias v. 19., and Jeremias xvii. 15. Others wished for the coming of the Lord, not reflecting that he would punish their guilt. (Calmet) --- Thus,...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    It should seem from what is here said, that there were characters in those days not unlike the scoffers the Apostle describes, that should come in the last days, who derided the day of the Lord's comi...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. "The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet expresses here more fully what he briefly and obscurely touched upon as to the passing of God through the land; for he shows that the Israelites acted strangely in setting up the name of G...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    After having deplored the ruin of Israel, He contrasts the places of their false worship with Jehovah, the Creator, and exhorts them to come unto Him and live. But Israel put off the thought of the ev...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WOE UNTO YOU THAT DESIRE THE DAY OF THE LORD,.... Either the day of Christ's coming in the flesh, as Cocceius interprets it; and which was desired by the people of Israel, not on account of spiritual...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end [is] it for you? the day of the LORD [is] darkness, and not light. Ver. 18. _Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord_] The day of his vi...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Wo unto you that desire the day of the Lord_ Scoffingly, not believing any such day will come: for this seems to be spoken of some among them, who, in mockery, expressed a desire of seeing those thin...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! believing that their external communion with the Lord's people would save them from the judgment which was to strike the heathen. TO WHAT END IS IT FOR YO...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    WOE UPON FOOLS AND HYPOCRITES...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    18-27 Woe unto those that desire the day of the Lord's judgments, that wish for times of war and confusion; as some who long for changes, hoping to rise upon the ruins of their country! but this shou...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THAT DESIRE, scoffingly, or not believing any such day would come: the prophets had long threatened such a day, but these scoffers thought no such thing could overtake them, and if it did they would k...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Amos 5:18 Woe H1945 desire H183 (H8693) day H3117 LORD H3068 good H4100 day H3117 LORD H3068 darkness...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FIRST WOE, CONCERNING THE DAY OF YHWH (AMOS 5:18). A ‘woe' was the opposite of a ‘blessed be you of YHWH'. It was the announcing of troubles and disaster that would come on His people directly fro...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DAY OF YHWH THAT IS COMING COME ON ISRAEL WILL BE A DAY OF DARKNESS, NOT LIGHT (AMOS 5:18). Amos 5:18 ‘Woe to you who desire the day of YHWH! Why would you have the day of YHWH? It is darkness,...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Amos 5:4. _For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:_ And that it just the message of God to professing Christians now: «Seek ye me.» Get away from your mere ce...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: God's lamentation over Israel and captivity foretold. The day of the Lord. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: If men will not take a right course to obtain the favor of God, God will take an eff...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Amos 5:2. _The virgin of Israel is fallen._ Babylon, which had never been stormed by a besieging army, is called a virgin. Isaiah 47:1. Thus Israel, whose kingdom had never yet been wholly subdued, is...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! _ THE DAY OF THE LORD I. AN AWAKENING COMMINATION. 1. What is meant by the “day of the Lord”? The day of death, or personal dissolution. The day of ca...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 5:16. Therefore] if ye seek not God, there will be lamentation not only by professional mourners, but in the streets of the city, in all towns of the kingdom, and in places whe...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION VERSE 1-CH. 6:14 § 8. _Third address_:_ the prophet utters a lamentation over the fall of Israel_. (Amos 6:1.) He calls her to repentance, while he shows wherein she has declined from the...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation (Amos 5:1), Weeping over the house of Israel now. The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her l...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Peter 3:10; 2 Peter 3:4; Ezekiel 12:22; Ezekiel 12:27; Isaiah 24:11

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    That desire — Scoffingly, not believing any such day would come. To what end — What do you think to get by it? Is darkness — All adversity, black and doleful. Not light — No joy, or comfort an it....

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