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Verse Amos 5:7. _YE WHO TURN JUDGMENT TO WORMWOOD_] Who pervert
judgment; causing him who obtains his suit to mourn sorely over the
_expenses_ he has _incurred_ in gaining his _right_....
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YE WHO TURN - Those whom he calls to seek God, were people filled with
all injustice, who turned the sweetness of justice into the bitterness
of wormwood . Moses had used “gall” and “wormwood” as a
pr...
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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 ...
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THE IMPENDING PUNISHMENT. The prophet gives his next few words the
form of a dirge (_kî nah_,_ Amos 5:1_). This (Amos 5:2) is
characterised by the peculiar _kî nah-metre_, consisting of three
beats or...
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WORMWOOD. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 29:18).
LEAVE OFF. IN. cast down. to....
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Proof that Israel merits the fate which has just been pronounced
against it: it has sought Jehovah by a ritual which He does not value,
and it has spurned the virtues which He really prizes.
_Seek ye...
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Jehovah demands righteousness: the prophet, with passion and
indignation, declares abruptly how far Israel is from righteousness,
and then proceeds to announce again the doom which it may in
consequen...
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_SEEK HIM THAT MADE THE STARS -- AMOS 5:1-9:_ Amos brought a mournful
message from God to the house of Israel. He called upon them to listen
to God's word. God is grieved over their wrongs and his des...
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TO WORMWOOD, &C.— _Into wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the
earth._...
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REVELATION CALLS FOR REPENTANCEGOD'S OMNIPOTENCE AND OMNISCIENCE
TEXT: Amos 5:6-13
6
Seek Jehovah, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the
house of Joseph, and it devour and there be...
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Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the
earth,
YE WHO TURN JUDGMENT TO WORMWOOD - i:e. pervert it to most bitter
wrong. As justice is sweet, so injustice is bitterness...
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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...
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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...
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Is placed after Amos 5:9 by Ewald, since Amos 5:7 stand in the Heb.
without any connecting-link. The holy thing “judgment” is
perverted into the bitter thing “wormwood,” that which is
execrated.
LEAVE...
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הַ הֹפְכִ֥ים לְ לַעֲנָ֖ה מִשְׁפָּ֑ט
וּ צְדָקָ
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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...
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“PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD”
Amos 4:12-13; Amos 5:1-15
Worse judgments than those mentioned in the previous verses were in
store but before they are inflicted, the entire nation is summoned to
the divin...
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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...
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Ye who turn (d) judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in
the earth,
(d) Instead of judgment and fairness they execute cruelty and
oppression....
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_You. Septuagint, "the Lord, [God] who does judgment on high, and has
placed justice on the earth; (8) who maketh and transformeth all
things, and turneth," &c. (Haydock) --- Hebrew agrees with the
Vu...
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The first verse in this paragraph is a confirmation, if it were
needed, of what I advanced in my observations on the former. Seeking
the Lord, implies the hope of finding him, and indeed the promise i...
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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...
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Here the Prophet, after having inveighed against superstitions, comes
to the second table of the law. The Prophets are sometimes wont to
shake off self-complacencies from hypocrites, when they spread...
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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...
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YE WHO TURN JUDGMENT TO WORMWOOD,.... This seems to be spoken to kings
and judges, as Aben Ezra and Kimchi observe; in whose hands is the
administration of justice, and who often pervert it, as these...
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Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the
earth,
Ver. 7. _Ye who turn judgment to wormwood_] Ye grandees and governors
of the people, that turn the sweetest thing into the...
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_Ye who turn judgment to wormwood_ Or into hemlock, as the word here
used is translated, Amos 6:12. Ye judges and rulers that pervert the
law that was designed to protect innocence, and under colour o...
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Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, by perverting justice into a bitter
wrong, AND LEAVE OFF RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE EARTH, casting it down,
trampling it under foot,...
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ISRAEL'S ONLY SAFETY IN SEEKING THE LORD...
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7-17 The same almighty power can, for repenting sinners, easily turn
affliction and sorrow into prosperity and joy, and as easily turn the
prosperity of daring sinners into utter darkness. Evil times...
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YE; rulers and judges. JUDGMENT; the righteous sentence of the law,
the equity of it, which is sweet and pleasing to just men, and safe
for all. WORMWOOD; proverbially understood, bitterness, grief,
i...
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Amos 5:7 turn H2015 (H8802) justice H4941 wormwood H3939 lay H3240
righteousness H6666 rest H3240 (H8689) earth...
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THE FIRST INDICTMENT ON ISRAEL (AMOS 5:7)
Amos followed up his appeal to Israel to repent with a reminder of why
they needed to repent. It was because they were those who turned
justice into somethin...
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A LAMENTATION OVER ISRAEL (AMOS 5:1).
While speaking powerfully Amos had no joy in what was to happen to
Israel, and having pronounced judgment on them, he now laments what
must necessarily be their e...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
Amos 5:7.] God in his omnipotence in contrast with the ungodly people,
indicating that he who can destroy should be feared. WORMWOOD] Justice
embittered, corrupted, and made hateful...
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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...
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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...
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Amos 5:11; Amos 5:12; Amos 6:12; Deuteronomy 29:18; Ezekiel 18:24;...
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Ye — Rulers and judges. Judgment — The righteous sentence of the
law. To wormwood — Proverbially understood; bitterness, injustice
and oppression. Leave off — Make to cease in your courts of
judicatur...