Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Amos 5:13
Shall keep silence — Be forced to it. Evil — Both for the sinfulness of it, and for the troubles, wars, and captivity now at hand.
Shall keep silence — Be forced to it. Evil — Both for the sinfulness of it, and for the troubles, wars, and captivity now at hand.
Verse 13. _THE PRUDENT SHALL KEEP SILENCE_] A wise man will consider that it is useless to complain. He can have no justice without bribes; and he has no money to give: consequently, in such an _evil...
THEREFORE THE PRUDENT SHALL KEEP SILENCE IN THAT TIME - The “time” may be either the time of the obduracy of the wicked, or that of the common punishment. For a time may be called “evil,” whether evil...
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 ...
THE IMPENDING PUNISHMENT. The prophet gives his next few words the form of a dirge (_kî nah_,_ Amos 5:1_). This (Amos 5:2) is characterised by the peculiar _kî nah-metre_, consisting of three beats or...
Therefore, &c. Compare Proverbs 28:11; Proverbs 28:28. an evil time,. time of calamity. _Hebrew raa'._ App-44. See note on Amos 3:6....
Israel's desperate moral condition, a justification of the sentence just pronounced upon it....
In a time such as that, the prudent man will keep silence; a complaint, or accusation, or attempt to redress the wrongs which he sees about him, will be perilous to him, if he be in a good position, a...
_CHOOSE GOOD INSTEAD OF EVIL -- AMOS 5:9-15 _ Life is a matter of the choices that we make. Israel chose to have fair judges and honest witnesses. Israel did not want to be reminded of her sins so she...
THEREFORE THE PRUDENT SHALL KEEP SILENCE, &C.— "The prophet who finds that he shall not be heard, and that his remonstrances will not be regarded, shall retire, and keep silence till the Lord commands...
REVELATION CALLS FOR REPENTANCEGOD'S OMNIPOTENCE AND OMNISCIENCE TEXT: Amos 5:6-13 6 Seek Jehovah, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour and there be...
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time. THEREFORE THE PRUDENT - the spiritually wise. SHALL KEEP SILENCE IN THAT TIME; FOR IT IS AN EVIL TIME - not mere sil...
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...
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...
PRUDENT... SILENCE. — The dumb silence of the prudent is the awful curse which comes upon a people when they are given up to selfishness and rapacity. Thus the doom: — “Ephraim is joined to idols, let...
לָכֵ֗ן הַ מַּשְׂכִּ֛יל בָּ † עֵ֥ת הַ...
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...
“PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD” Amos 4:12-13; Amos 5:1-15 Worse judgments than those mentioned in the previous verses were in store but before they are inflicted, the entire nation is summoned to the divin...
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...
Therefore (h) the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it [is] an evil time. (h) God will so plague them that they will not allow the godly to open their mouths once to admonish them of their...
CHAPTER V. _ Time. It is to no purpose speaking to the deaf, (Ecclesiasticus xxxii. 9.) or throwing pearls before swine, Matthew vii. 6. Amos was silent for a while, till God opened his mouth again,...
The first verse in this paragraph is a confirmation, if it were needed, of what I advanced in my observations on the former. Seeking the Lord, implies the hope of finding him, and indeed the promise i...
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...
Some interpreters think that a punishment is here denounced on the people of Israel, and that is, that the Lord would deprive them of Prophets and teachers. We indeed know that nothing is more to be d...
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...
THEREFORE THE PRUDENT SHALL KEEP SILENCE AT THAT TIME,.... Not the prophets of the Lord, whose business it was at all times to reprove, and not hold their peace, let the consequence be what it would;...
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it [is] an evil time. Ver. 13. _Therefore the prudent shall keep silence_] According to that old and good rule, Either keep silence, or spea...
_Forasmuch, therefore, as your treading is upon the poor_ It appears by this, that their acts of oppression were more than ordinarily proud and tyrannical. They were the effect of fraud executed with...
WOE UPON FOOLS AND HYPOCRITES...
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time, for it is an evil time, and when things have reached such extremities as here pictured, all admonitions are futile. Still the love of the prophet...
7-17 The same almighty power can, for repenting sinners, easily turn affliction and sorrow into prosperity and joy, and as easily turn the prosperity of daring sinners into utter darkness. Evil times...
THEREFORE, because that men are so universally impatient of hearing reproof, and yet their sins so much abound, and so much deserve reproof; since they will sooner turn against the speaker, than turn...
Amos 5:13 prudent H7919 (H8688) silent H1826 (H8799) time H6256 evil H7451 time H6256 the prudent -...
THE SECOND INDICTMENT ON ISRAEL AMOS 5:10). This second indictment is fuller than the first (Amos 5:7), and is written in chiastic form. Thus: a It opens with reference to those who reprove or speak...
A LAMENTATION OVER ISRAEL (AMOS 5:1). While speaking powerfully Amos had no joy in what was to happen to Israel, and having pronounced judgment on them, he now laments what must necessarily be their e...
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...
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...
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...
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 5:1 Although they face imminent destruction, God still pleads with his people to return to him. ⇐ ⇔
CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 5:7.] God in his omnipotence in contrast with the ungodly people, indicating that he who can destroy should be feared. WORMWOOD] Justice embittered, corrupted, and made hateful...
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...
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...
2 Timothy 3:1; Amos 6:10; Ecclesiastes 3:7; Ecclesiastes 9:12;...