George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Amos 3:7
Prophets. In vain then would you silence them, chap. ii. 12, and vii. 12. He always tends to the conclusion, ver. 8. (Calmet)
Prophets. In vain then would you silence them, chap. ii. 12, and vii. 12. He always tends to the conclusion, ver. 8. (Calmet)
Verse Amos 3:7. _SURELY THE LORD GOD WILL DO NOTHING_] In reference to the punishment, correction, or blessing of his people- _BUT HE REVEALETH HIS SECRET UNTO HIS SERVANTS THE PROPHETS._] They are...
SURELY THE LORD GOD WILL DO - For the Lord God “doeth” NOTHING, BUT HE REVEALETH HIS SECRET UNTO HIS SERVANTS THE PROPHETS - So our Lord saith, “And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, w...
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...
SURELY. [No:] for. Compare Job 31:18; Micah 6:4. The reason follows and is explained. THE LORD GOD. See note on Amos 1:7. WILL DO. doeth. Hebrew. _'asah =_ work, execute ...
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...
Similarly the horn is a signal of danger; calamity is a sign that Jehovah has willed it; and the appearance of a prophet is an indication that Jehovah has sent him....
_Surely_ FOR, the reason, however, following not in Amos 3:7 but in Amos 3:8 (to which Amos 3:7 is subordinate): -I give all these examples of events and occurrences in nature being due regularly to t...
_THE LORD HAS SPOKEN -- AMOS 3:7-11:_ Whatever God intended to do He revealed through His prophet. It was not just talk. It would happen just as He revealed through His messenger. When God's prophets...
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...
Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. SURELY THE LORD GOD WILL DO NOTHING, BUT HE REVEALETH HIS SECRET - namely, His purpose, hidden from...
HIS SECRET is the purpose He has formed: cp. Genesis 18:17. 8. Luther said, at the Diet of Worms: 'Here I stand: I can do no other.'...
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...
SURELY THE LORD... — In this, and the preceding verse, the future tense should be replaced by a present. Render _doeth nothing,_ and in Amos 3:6 _is a trumpet sounded_... _are not afraid_... _is there...
כִּ֣י לֹ֧א יַעֲשֶׂ֛ה אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִ֖ה דָּבָ֑ר...
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...
Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he (h) revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. (h) God does not deal with the Israelites as he does with other people: for he always warns them b...
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...
But he had before spoken of the sound of the trumpet; for every excuse was thereby taken away from the Israelites, as God had not only recalled them to the right way by his scourges but also preceded...
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...
SURELY THE LORD GOD WILL DO NOTHING,.... In the world, in a nation or city; no remarkable event has happened, or shall happen, to the sons of men: BUT HE REVEALETH HIS SECRET UNTO HIS SERVANTS THE PR...
Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. Ver. 7. _Surely the Lord God will do nothing_] _i.e._ hardly anything. He loveth to foresignify, to wa...
_The Lord will do nothing, but he revealeth_, &c. As if he had said, You cannot complain of your not being forewarned of these calamities coming upon you, for God hath not done, nor will do any thing,...
Surely the Lord God will do nothing but He revealeth His secret unto His servants, the prophets, that is, Jehovah does not send His judgments without warning, but gives the people knowledge of His cou...
THE LORD READY TO PUNISH...
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...
SURELY, since that, or, forasmuch as, the Lord God will do nothing; usually the Lord doth no great tiring for or against his people, neither brings great judgments upon them for sin, nor bestows great...
Amos 3:7 Lord H136 GOD H3069 does H6213 (H8799) nothing H1697 reveals H1540 (H8804) secret H5475 servants...
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...
_Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth His secret unto His servants the prophets._ PROPHECY: A DISCLOSURE OF GOD’S SECRETS I. God and the prophet (or God’s revelations to the prophet)...
_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...
1 Kings 22:19; 2 Kings 22:13; 2 Kings 22:20; 2 Kings 3:17; 2
Will do nothing — Usually the Lord doth no great thing for or against his people, without giving warning of it before it comes....