Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Amos 8:13
In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst, this in spite of their natural strength and stamina, which was lacking in those who had been overcome before them.
In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst, this in spite of their natural strength and stamina, which was lacking in those who had been overcome before them.
In this hopelessness as to all relief, those too shall fail and sink under their sufferings, in whom life is freshest and strongest and hope most buoyant. Hope mitigates any sufferings. When hope is g...
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)...
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...
VIRGINS. Hebrew. _bethulah (plural)_ See note on Genesis 24:43....
A fresh denunciation of Israel's sin, followed by a fresh picture of the impending calamities....
In the day of agony and distress then coming upon Israel, the young men and fair maidens, the strength and pride of the population, will _faint for thirsty_, exhausted by the privations of a siege, or...
_A FAMINE FOR THE WORD OF GOD -- AMOS 8:11-14:_ God promised a horrible famine in the land. It would not be a shortage of food and water. The people would be hungry and thirsty to hear the word of God...
DESCRIPTION OF JUDGMENTS PROPHESIEDSPIRITUAL FAMINE TEXT: Amos 8:11-14 11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord Jehovah, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst f...
In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. IN THAT DAY SHALL THE FAIR VIRGINS AND YOUNG MEN FAINT FOR THIRST - namely, thirst for hearing the words of the Lord, being desti...
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...
FAINT. — That fair virgins and strong brave youths should faint by reason of their raging thirst suggests that the less vigorous would suffer even more keenly. It is sad when old men stumble into the...
בַּ † יֹּ֨ום הַ ה֜וּא תִּ֠תְעַלַּפְנָה הַ...
1. EARTHQUAKE, ECLIPSE, AND FAMINE Amos 8:4 "Hear this, ye who trample the needy, and would put an end to the lowly of the land, saying, When will the New-Moon be over, that we may sell grain, and th...
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 dis...
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...
What an awful sound is here! And how dreadfully awful in that land, that parish, that people, that family, or person, in whom it is fulfilled. A famine of bread the common staff of life is distressing...
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 Prophet, having threatened spiritual famine, now adds, that the people would in every respect be barren and destitute of every good: for I take not thirst here in the same sense as before; but tha...
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...
IN THAT DAY SHALL THE FAIR VIRGINS AND YOUNG MEN FAINT FOR THIRST. After the word, for want of that grain and wine, which make young men and maids cheerful, Zechariah 9:17; but, being destitute of the...
In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. Ver. 13. _In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst_] When God depriveth a People of his ordinances, and so...
_And they shall wander from sea to sea_ From the sea of Tiberias to the great sea, from one border of the country to another. _And from the north even to the east_ The prophet omits naming the _south_...
11-14 Here was a token of God's highest displeasure. At any time, and most in a time of trouble, a famine of the word of God is the heaviest judgment. To many this is no affliction, yet some will fee...
It is probable these in their strength and rigour would seek earnestly to know what end they might expect, whether they should outlive this famine of the word, and the famine of bread and water, but b...
Amos 8:13 day H3117 fair H3303 virgins H1330 men H970 faint H5968 (H8691) thirst H6772...
THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE JUDGMENT (AMOS 8:8). For these people there would be a heavy price to pay because of their sins. The land would tremble and all its inhabitants mourn. For YHWH was about to br...
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 eph...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 8:1 In powerful word-pictures, Amos describes the final end of Israel. ⇐ ⇔...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 8:13 Israel had depended on their paganized ideas of Yahweh, represented by the idols at Samaria and DAN, or on the ancestral tradition of Yahweh at BEERSHEBA (see...
_HOMILETICS_ CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 8:11. FAMINE] The light and comfort of God’s word shall fail; they despise now what they shall look for in vain then. AMOS 8:12. WANDER] Lit. reel, like drunken m...
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...
Deuteronomy 32:25; Hosea 2:3; Isaiah 40:30; Isaiah 41:17; Jerem