George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Amos 3:4
Nothing? Thus, shall I inveigh against your crimes, if there were no need?
Nothing? Thus, shall I inveigh against your crimes, if there were no need?
Verse Amos 3:4. _WILL A LION ROAR_] Should I threaten such a judgment without cause?...
WILL A LION ROAR IN THE FOREST, WHEN HE HATH NO PREY? - Then, further, each question by itself suggests its own thought. Amos had already, in repeating Joel’s words, spoken of God’s Voice, under the i...
II. THE PROPHETIC MESSAGES UNCOVERING THE CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE CHAPTER 3 The First Discourse _ 1. There is cause for judgment (Amos 3:1) _ 2. The coming judgment visitation (Amos 3:9) Amos 3:1...
ISRAEL'S RESPONSIBILITY AND THE PROPHET'S OBLIGATION. Amos, after addressing the children of Israel, includes Judah by adding the whole family, unless this is a gloss, as it may be, since the inclusio...
WILL... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis_. App-6. FOREST = thicket....
_when he hath no prey_ i.e. when it is not within his reach: the roar is that with which the lion springs upon its prey: cf. Isaiah 5:29 _a_(not Isaiah 5:29 _b_, where the word used is a different one...
Examples of sights, or sounds, from which the action of some proper or sufficient cause may, in each case, be inferred....
Such a severe rebuke might provoke contradiction among the prophet's hearers: he therefore proceeds to indicate the authority upon which it rests, arguing by means of a series of illustrations drawn f...
_THE LORD WILL PUNISH EVIL -- AMOS 3:4-6_ God wanted it understood that there was a cause for the punishment that He would bring upon Israel. The Lord would do this to Israel because of her transgress...
CAN TWO WALK, &C.— The similies in these verses have the same meaning, and they all tend to shew that calamities happen according to the appointing, permissive, or suffering will of God; and that prop...
PENITENCE PROMOTEDREASON CALLS FOR REPENTANCE THE LORD DOES NOT ROAR WITHOUT CAUSE TEXT: Amos 3:1-8 1 Hear this word that Jehovah hath spoken against you, O children of Israel against the whole fam...
Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing? WILL A LION ROAR IN THE FOREST WHEN HE HATH NO PREY? The same idea as in . Whe...
THE FIRST ADDRESS 1-8. A call to attention. 9, 10. The oppressions practised by the powerful. 11-15. The disasters which should overtake them, their sanctuary and their palaces. 1. 'Race' would be...
THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 3 GOD WARNS ISRAEL’S PEOPLE V1 People in Israel, listen to this message. The *Lord has spoken against you. This message...
LION. — The questions suggest that the prey is being seized. This is intimated by the lion’s roar, the loud roar of the lion in the forest, the growl of the famished young lions in the den. Aben-Ezra...
הֲ יִשְׁאַ֤ג אַרְיֵה֙ בַּ † יַּ֔עַר וְ...
CIVILIZATION AND JUDGMENT Amos 3:1 - Amos 4:3 WE now enter the Second Section of the Book of Amos: Chapter s 3-6. It is a collection of various oracles of denunciation, grouped partly by the recurren...
Amos 3:3, Amos 7:14 THE MAN AND THE PROPHET THE Book of Amos opens one of the greatest stages in the religious development of mankind. Its originality is due to a few simple ideas, which it propels...
THE LORD'S WORD MUST COME TRUE Amos 3:1-15 The closer our relationship with God, the more searching His scrutiny and chastening. The sins of God's children which may seem of slight consequence are ri...
Having thus uttered the declamations of Jehovah's judgment on all the nations, the prophet delivered his special message to Israel in a series of three discourses. In each the introductory word is, "H...
Will a (c) lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing? (c) Will God threaten by his Prophet, unless there is some great occasion?...
The Lord is going on in his expostulations. He first shews, that by Israel's revolt that sweet communion between the Lord and his people was interrupted. Ca n two walk together except they be agreed?...
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...
The second similitude follows, _Will a lion roar in the forest without a prey? Will a lion send forth his voice from his den when he has caught nothing? _By this verse he intimates that God does not c...
After having specified each one of the nations that were found on the territory promised to Abraham, God addresses Judah and Israel together-the whole family whom He had brought up from Egypt. These o...
WILL A LION ROAR IN THE FOREST WHEN HE HATH NO PREY?.... He will not, unless he has it in his sight, or in his paws; he roars when he first sees it, whereby he terrifies the creature, that it cannot m...
Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing? Ver. 4. _Will a lion roar in the forest, when, &c._] It is said of the lion, that...
_Will a lion roar, &c., when he hath no prey?_ “Naturalists assert that when the lion sees his prey, he roars before he rushes on it; and that at this roaring many animals show great fear. He likewise...
THE LORD READY TO PUNISH...
Will a lion roar in the forest when he hath no prey? Jehovah is the lion, and His roaring is that of satisfaction over the certainty that His prey cannot escape, that is, that Israel, in its present s...
CRY OUT: _ Heb._ give forth his voice...
1-8 The distinguishing favours of God to us, if they do not restrain from sin, shall not exempt from punishment. They could not expect communion with God, unless they first sought peace with him. Whe...
In this verse, by a double similitude, Amos certifieth the Jews of near and inevitable punishment; first, by similitude of a lion roaring at sight of his prey, which seldom escapes when the lion roare...
Amos 3:4 lion H738 roar H7580 (H8799) forest H3293 prey H2964 lion H3715 out H5414 (H8799) H6
THE INEVITABILITY OF JUDGMENT, BOTH BECAUSE OF WHAT YHWH IS, AND BECAUSE HE WILL ACT (AMOS 3:1). Following up on the idea in Amos 2:9 Amos commences this section of his prophecy (introduced by ‘hear t...
THE COVENANT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YHWH AND HIS PEOPLE (AMOS 3:1). The covenant relationship between YHWH and His people is revealed in this carefully constructed passage in which there is constant re...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's controversy with Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Amos. CONCLUSION: Judgment begins at the house of God. The nearer men are to God in profession, and the kinder notice God has taken of t...
Amos 3:1. _Against the whole family_ of the twelve tribes, _which I brought up from Egypt._ It was a laborious work to make them hear. The prophets did not confine their labours to local districts. Am...
_Will a lion roar in the forest when he hath no prey?_ RETRIBUTION I. Retribution springs out of the nature of things. Poiset, in his travels, states that the lion has two different modes of hunting...
_You only have I known of all the families of the earth._ SIN IN THE HIGHLY-FAVOURED This is shameful ingratitude. The honour and blessing conferred on the Israelites gave the stain of ingratitude to...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 3:3 With a series of questions, Amos shows that disaster is coming for Israel. In nature, certain sequences of events lead to predictable outcomes. If a LION roars (vv....
CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 3:3. TWO] The prophet and the Spirit of God. Israel did not believe that _God_ threatened such denunciations by the prophets (ch. Amos 6:1; Amos 1:7). Amos spoke because God com...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-CH. 6:14 Part II. THREE ADDRESSES PARTICULARIZING THE SINS OF ISRAEL AND ANNOUNCING IMMINENT JUDGMENT. AMOS 3:1 § 1.
Hear this word [Amos said] that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, and against the whole family (Amos 3:1) So that would include Judah also. which I brought up from the land of...
Amos 1:2; Amos 3:8; Hosea 11:10; Psalms 104:21...