Amos 5:17

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 viz. as a destroyer (cf. Exodus 12:12), guiding, as it were, the foe by whose agency Amos conceives the disaster to be accomplished.

(2) Amos 5:18-27. A rebuke, addressed to those who desired the "Day of Jehovah," and trusted to the splendour and regularity of their religious services, to secure for them Jehovah's favour. They have mistaken the principles upon which Jehovah acts: His -day," when it arrives, will be a day on which, so far from sparing them for their zealous discharge of ritual observances, He will consign them to exile for their disregard of moral obligations.