Amos 5:1
What meaning of the amos 5:1 in the Bible?
What does Amos 5:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel."
What does Amos 5:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel."
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...
In order to impress Israel the more, Amos begins this his third appeal by a “dirge” over its destruction, mourning over those who were full of joy, and thought themselves safe and enviable. As if a li...
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 (Amos 5:21) Amos 5:1. This chap...
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...
TAKE UP. lift up as. burden. LAMENTATION. dirge. HOUSE OF ISRAEL. See note on Amos 8:1....
_a_ DIRGE] Heb. _ḳînâh_, which signifies, not a spontaneous effusion of natural emotion, but a composition, longer or shorter as the case might be, constructed with some art in a definite poetical for...
_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...
EVEN A LAMENTATION— This and the following chapter contain a kind of mournful song upon the misfortunes of Israel. See Jeremiah 9:17 and the introduction to the book of Lamentations....
REVELATION CALLS FOR REPENTANCEGOD'S WORD AGAINST ISRAEL TEXT: Amos 5:1-5 1 Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel. 2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she...
Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel. HEAR YE THIS WORD WHICH I TAKE UP AGAINST YOU, EVEN A LAMENTATION - an elegy for the destruction coming on you...
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...
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...
שִׁמְע֞וּ אֶת ־הַ דָּבָ֣ר הַ זֶּ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר אָנֹכִ֜י נֹשֵׂ֧א עֲלֵיכֶ֛ם קִינָ֖ה בֵּ֥ית יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃...
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 th...
“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 divi...
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...
_Lamentation. Such canticles were usual, Isaias xiv. --- Israel. It no longer formed a separate kingdom. (Calmet) --- When the people fear no evil, God laments for them. (Worthington)_...
CONTENTS We have here the same subject continued, and in which the Lord is taking up a lamentation for the land of Israel. The close of the Chapter brings forward an additional charge against them fo...
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...
Some render the verse thus, “Hear ye this word, because upon you, or for you, I raise a lamentation:” but we shall hereafter speak more at large as to the proper rendering. Let us see what the subject...
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...
HEAR YE THE WORD WHICH I TAKE UP AGAINST YOU,.... And which was not his own word, but the word of the Lord; and which he took up, by his direction as a heavy burden as some prophecies are called, and...
Hear ye this word which I take up against you, [even] a lamentation, O house of Israel. Ver. 1. _Hear ye this word_] A new sermon, as appeareth by this new O yes; not unlike that of St Paul, Acts 13:...
_Hear ye_, &c. It is justly observed by Grotius, that this verse would be translated more according to the Hebrew thus; _Hear ye this word, even a lamentation, which I take up over you_ It alludes to...
Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel, an elegy, dirge, or mournful song sung over the downfall of Israel....
1-6 The convincing, awakening word must be heard and heeded, as well as words of comfort and peace; for whether we hear or forbear, the word of God shall take effect. The Lord still proclaims mercy to...
AMOS CHAPTER 5 A lamentation for Israel, AMOS 5:1. An exhortation to repentance, AMOS 5:4. God rejecteth their hypocritical service, AMOS 5:21. This preface you have in the same words AMOS 3:1, and in...
Amos 5:1 Hear H8085 (H8798) word H1697 up H5375 (H8802) lamentation H7015 house H1004 Israel H3478 Hear - Amos 3:1, Amos 4:1 I take - Amos 5:16; Jeremiah 7:29, Jeremiah 9:10,...
OPENING LAMENTATION. AMOS PRONOUNCES A FUNERAL DIRGE OVER ISRAEL (AMOS 5:1). Amos now looks ahead into the future and proclaims a funeral dirge over Israel because her hope has gone (unless she repen...
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...
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...
_Hear ye this word which I take up against you._ THE END OF CARNAL SECURITY Such words as these must have fallen like a thunderbolt into the midst of the corrupt and careless inhabitants of Samaria...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 5:1 Although they face imminent destruction, God still pleads with his people to return to him. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.len...
CRITICAL NOTES.] THIS WORD] A mournful song (2 Samuel 1:17). TAKE UP] Lit. lift up as if to cast down upon them. AMOS 5:2. VIRGIN] The Israelite state unsubdued by foreigners. FALLEN] Violent death ...
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...
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...
Amos 3:1; Amos 4:1; Amos 5:16; Ezekiel 19:1; Ezekiel 19:14; Ezekiel 26:17; Ezekiel 27:2; Ezekiel 27:27; Ezekiel 28:12; Ezekiel 32:16;...