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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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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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....
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הֹ֥וי הַ מִּתְאַוִּ֖ים אֶת ־יֹ֣ום
יְהוָ֑ה לָמ
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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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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...
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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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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...
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_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,...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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WOE UPON FOOLS AND HYPOCRITES...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Amos 5:18 Woe H1945 desire H183 (H8693) day H3117 LORD H3068 good
H4100 day H3117 LORD H3068 darkness...
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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,...
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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...
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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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_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...
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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...
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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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2 Peter 3:10; 2 Peter 3:4; Ezekiel 12:22; Ezekiel 12:27; Isaiah 24:11
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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....