Amos 5:1

CHAPTER V

This chapter opens with a tender and pathetic lamentation, in

the style of a funeral song, over the house of Israel, 1, 2.

The prophet then glances at the awful threatening denounced

against them, 3;

earnestly exhorting them to renounce their idols, and seek

Jehovah, of whom he gives a very magnificent description, 4-9.

He then reproves their injustice and oppression with great

warmth and indignation; exhorts them again to repentance; and

enforces his exhortation with the most awful threatenings,

delivered with great majesty and authority, and in images full

of beauty and grandeur, 10-24.

The chapter concludes with observing that their idolatry was

of long standing, that they increased the national guilt, by

adding to the sins of their fathers; and that their punishment,

therefore, should be great in proportion, 25-27.

Formerly numbers of them were brought captive to Damascus, 2 Kings 10:32-12;

but now they must go beyond it to Assyria, 2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 17:6.

NOTES ON CHAP. V

Verse Amos 5:1. Hear ye this word] Attend to this doleful song which I make for the house of Israel.