Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Amos 5:17
Vineyards — In these places were usually the greatest joy. Pass through — To punish all every where.
Vineyards — In these places were usually the greatest joy. Pass through — To punish all every where.
Verse 17. _AND IN ALL VINEYARDS_ SHALL BE _WAILING_] The places where festivity especially used to prevail. _I WILL PASS THROUGH THEE_] As I passed, by the ministry of the destroying angel, through E...
AND IN ALL VINEYARDS SHALL BE WAILING - All joy should be turned into sorrow. Where aforetime was the vintage-shout in thankfulness for the ingathering, and anticipating gladness to come, there, in th...
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...
PASS THROUGH. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 12:12). App-92....
The wailing will embrace even the vineyards, which, as the season of vintage came round, were annually the scenes of mirth and hilarity (Isaiah 16:10). _for I will pass through_ THE MIDST OF _thee_ vi...
But Amos sees that his exhortation will not be listened to, and again therefore he draws a dark picture of the future to which the nation is hastening: so great will be the slaughter wrought by the fo...
_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...
FOR I WILL PASS THROUGH THEE— "About to avenge mine own injuries; not, as before, sending the pestilence and famine." To the same purpose it is said in the 12th verse of the former chapter, _Prepare t...
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...
And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD. IN ALL VINEYARDS SHALL BE WAILING - where usually songs of joy were heard. FOR I WILL PASS THROUGH THEE - taki...
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...
וּ בְ כָל ־כְּרָמִ֖ים מִסְפֵּ֑ד כִּֽי ־אֶעֱבֹ
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...
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...
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...
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...
A reason is now added, why the whole country would be taken up with lamentation and mourning; for the Lord would pass through the whole land. Surely nothing was more to be desired, than that God shoul...
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...
AND IN ALL VINEYARDS [SHALL BE] WAILING,.... The vines being destroyed, and no grapes to be gathered, and put into the press; when there used to be great shoutings, and large expressions of joy, at th...
And in all vineyards [shall be] wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD. Ver. 17. _And in all vineyards shall be wailing_] Where used to be great jollity and revelry riot in time of vin...
_Therefore the Lord saith thus_ The prophet, foreseeing their obstinacy, proceeds in denouncing judgments against them: and the word _therefore_, which introduces his threatenings, is to be referred t...
WOE UPON FOOLS AND HYPOCRITES...
And in all vineyards shall be wailing, instead of the shouts of joy formerly heard there; FOR I WILL PASS THROUGH THEE, SAITH THE LORD, with His visitation of wrath....
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...
IN ALL VINEYARDS SHALL BE WAILING: in these places was usually the greatest jollity, and they gathered their vintage with joy; but now it is quite contrary, either vines are blasted, or eaten up, or d...
Amos 5:17 vineyards H3754 wailing H4553 pass H5674 (H8799) through H7130 Says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 in -
A CLOSING LAMENTATION (AMOS 5:16). Having previously opened with a lamentation, Amos closes with a lamentation by YHWH, for he is well aware that on the whole his words would not be heeded. (As always...
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. ⇐ ⇔
AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 5:16 Although Israel could have returned to God, they would not. As a result, Amos announces that a great funeral cry of WAILING... MOURNING... LAMENTATION (see v. Am
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...
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...
Exodus 12:12; Exodus 12:23; Hosea 9:1; Hosea 9:2; Isaiah 16:10;...