Amos 8:4
What meaning of the amos 8:4 in the Bible?
What does Amos 8:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,"
What does Amos 8:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,"
Verse Amos 8:4. _HEAR THIS, O YE THAT SWALLOW UP THE NEEDY_] Ye that _bruise_ the poor; exact from them, and _tread them under foot_....
HERE YE THIS, YE THAT SWALLOW - Or, better in the same sense, “that pant for the needy;” as Job says, “the hireling panteth for the evening” Job 7:2. They “panted for the poor,” as the wild beast for...
CHAPTER 8 The Fourth Vision: The Basket With Summer Fruit _ 1. The vision (Amos 8:1) _ 2. Israel ripe for judgment (Amos 8:4) 3. The coming days of famine (Amos 8:11) Amos 8:1. In his fourth visi...
DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEME OF AMOS 3. This section, which re-echoes Amos 2:6, has been regarded as a conglomeration of rather loosely-connected fragments (_cf._ G. A. Smith). The prophet addresses himse...
SWALLOW UP. devour. THE NEEDY. a needy one. Hebrew 'ebyon. See note on. poverty", Proverbs 6:11. MAKE. TO FAIL. destroy, or cause to cease. THE POOR. meek ones. Hebrew 'amah, See note on "poverty",...
_Hear this_ Amos 3:1; Amos 4:1; Amos 5:1. _that_ PANT AFTER _the needy_ i.e. who are eager to destroy them: the word has the same figurative sense in Psalms 56:1-2; Psalms 57:3; cf. also above Amos 2...
_THE NATURE OF ISRAEL'S SIN -- AMOS 8:4-6:_ God reminded the leaders of Israel of their sins in taking advantage of the poor to expand their own selfish interests. They had literally swallowed up the...
O YE THAT SWALLOW UP THE NEEDY— _Ye that tread down the poor, and oppress the meek of the land._ Houbigant....
CAUSES OF JUDGMENT PROPHESIEDGOD'S LONGSUFFERING HAS EXPIRED TEXT: Amos 8:1-6 1 Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, a basket of summer fruit. 2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I...
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, HEAR THIS. The nobles needed to be urged thus, as hating to hear reproof. O YE THAT SWALLOW UP THE NEEDY - o...
8:4 poor (b-15) Lit. 'meek,' or 'afflicted,' as Psalms 9:18 ....
THE VISION OF THE RIPE FRUIT, FOLLOWED BY A FIFTH ADDRESS 1-3. The vision. 4-14. The address, denouncing dishonest traders (Amos 8:4), threatening earthquakes, eclipse, mourning, a painful sense of...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 8 A PICTURE OF A BASKET OF FRUIT V1 This is what the *Lord the Ruler showed me: I saw a basket of ripe fruit. V2 The *L...
YE THAT SWALLOW UP... — Better, _ye that pant_ (or _are greedy_)_ for the very ashes on their heads._ MAKE... TO FAIL. — Literally, _make_... _to cease: i.e.,_ destroy....
שִׁמְעוּ ־זֹ֕את הַ שֹּׁאֲפִ֖ים אֶבְיֹ֑ון וְ לַ שְׁבִּ֖ית _עֲנִיֵּי_† ־אָֽרֶץ׃...
5. THE PROPHET AND HIS MINISTRY Amos 7:1 - Amos 8:1 We have seen the preparation of the Man for the Word; we have sought to trace to its source the Word which came to the Man. It now remains for us...
THE WORST FAMINE OF ALL Amos 8:1-14 What is more fragile than summer fruit! So beautiful, so refreshing, yet so readily corrupted and diseased. To Amos it was an emblem of the rapidity with which di...
The next vision, that of the basket of summer fruit, indicated the im minence of the judgment. Jehovah declared that the end was come, that He would not pass by them any more. This announcement was f...
Hear this, O ye that (c) swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, (c) By stopping the sale of food and necessary things which you have gotten into your own hands, and so cause...
When devotion itself is out of tune by the heart being under no influences of grace; alas! what a sacrifice of fools is then offered! Sabbaths are burdens, ordinances tiresome, prayer a drudgery, in s...
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...
And he assails by name the princes of the people, _Hear this, _he says, _ye who tread upon _or _swallow up the poor _The Prophets, as we have already stated, did not without reason direct their discou...
Chapter 8 renews the declaration, that the end of Israel was come on account of their iniquity. God would no longer pass it over. The prophet announces likewise the distress the people should come int...
HEAR THIS, O YE THAT SWALLOW UP THE NEEDY,.... Like a man that pants after a draught of water when thirsty; and, when he has got it, greedily swallows it down at one gulp; so these rich men swallowed...
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, Ver. 4. _Hear this, ye that swallow up the needy_] That seep them up as drink (our word seep seems to come of the...
_Hear, O ye that swallow up the needy_ That greedily and cruelly devour such as would have been objects of your compassion, had you been just and merciful as well as rich and great. He alludes to the...
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, panting after the poor in their anxiety to destroy them and to grasp their property, EVEN TO MAKE THE POOR OF THE LAND TO FAIL, in order to take their proper...
4-10 The rich and powerful of the land were the most guilty of oppression, as well as the foremost in idolatry. They were weary of the restraints of the sabbaths and the new moons, and wished them ov...
Though the prophet had several times told them what were the sins for which God would thus punish Israel, yet on a repeated threat he repeateth the rehearsal of the sins which draw down these judgment...
Amos 8:4 Hear H8085 (H8798) swallow H7602 (H8802) needy H34 make H7673 poor H6041 (H8675) H6035 land H776 fail H7673 (H8687) Hear - Amos 7:16; 1 Kings 22:19; Isaiah 1:10,...
THE FOURTH VISION - THE VISION OF THE BASKET OF SUMMER FRUIT INDICATING THAT ISRAEL WERE ABOUT TO BE HARVESTED (AMOS 8:1). In his fourth vision Amos was shown a basket of summer fruit (e.g. figs and p...
CONTENTS: The basket of summer fruit foretelling Israel's near ruin. Summary of the case against Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Amos. CONCLUSION: The time of God's patience draws surely to a conclusion, a...
Amos 8:1. _A basket of summer fruit._ The Lord would not wait till the vintage; he would cause their sun, as a nation, to set at noon, and rise no more. Amos 8:5. _That we may sell corn making the ep...
_Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy._ AVARICE I. It is execrable in its spirit. 1. It is sacrilegious. Bad as Israel was, it still kept up the mere observances of religion, yet these observa...
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CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 8:4. HEAR] The nobles hated reproof. SWALLOW] Heb. gape after, earnestly desire (Job 7:2); pant after goods as wild beasts for prey. They sought to rid the land of all the poor....
EXPOSITION AMOS 8:1 § 5. _In the fourth vision, the basket of summer fruit, the Lord shows that the people is ripe for judgment. _Explaining this revelation, Amos denounces the oppression and greed...
Now in chapter 8: Thus hath the Lord GOD showed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit (Amos 8:1). So now another vision, and in this vision he sees this summer fruit, apricots and peaches, pl...
1 Kings 22:19; Amos 2:6; Amos 5:11; Amos 7:16; Isaiah 1:10; Isaiah 28:14; Isaiah 32:6; Isaiah 32:7; James 5:6; Jeremiah 28:15;...
To fail — Either to root them out, or to enslave them....