Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Amos 5:18
Desire the day of the Lord. — Expecting that day to bring you deliverance and judgments upon your enemies. It shall bring the reverse! There is a dark side to the pillar of fire.
Desire the day of the Lord. — Expecting that day to bring you deliverance and judgments upon your enemies. It shall bring the reverse! There is a dark side to the pillar of fire.
Verse 18. _WO UNTO YOU THAT DESIRE THE DAY OF THE LORD_] The prophet had often denounced the coming of _God's day_, that is, of a _time of judgment_; and the unbelievers had said, "Let his day come, t...
WOE UNTO YOU THAT DESIRE - for yourselves. THE DAY OF THE LORD - There were “mockers in those days” 2 Peter 3:3; Jude 1:18, as there are now, and as there shall be in the last. And as the “scoffers in...
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 ...
ISRAEL'S DELUSIONS. The prophet resumes the subject of Israel's delusions, how she disregards the essential conditions of real welfare. In Amos 5:18 he deals with a peculiar example of this, the conce...
WOE. The first woe. See the Structure above. the day of the LORD. See notes on Isaiah 2:12; Isaiah 13:6; Joel 2:1 DARKNESS, AND NOT LIGHT. Note the Figure of speech _Pleonasm_ (App-6) for emphasis. Co...
_Woe unto you that_ AH! THEY THAT. … The interjection _Hôy_(the same as that used in 1 Kings 13:30 &c. quoted on Amos 5:16) implies commiseration rather than denunciation. It is used frequently, as he...
Those who desire the "Day of Jehovah," as though it could be anything but an interposition in their favour, will find to their surprise that it is a day fraught with peril and disaster....
_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...
WOE UNTO YOU, &C.— _Woe unto them that wish for the day of the Lord. And why? To you the day of the Lord will be,_ &c. Infidels made a mock at the words of the prophets, when they told them the day of...
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...
Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. WOE UNTO YOU THAT DESIRE THE DAY OF THE LORD! - Woe unto you who do not scru...
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...
DAY OF THE LORD] see Intro., and cp. Isaiah 5:30; Isaiah 8:22; Joel 2:2; Obadiah 1:15. 21. Festivals such as Tabernacles ...
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...
הֹ֥וי הַ מִּתְאַוִּ֖ים אֶת ־יֹ֣ום יְהוָ֑ה לָמ
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...
Woe unto you that (k) desire the day of the LORD! to what end [is] it for you? the day of the LORD [is] darkness, and not light. (k) He speaks in this way because the wicked and hypocrites said they w...
_The day. Some imprudently laughed at the prophets, Isaias v. 19., and Jeremias xvii. 15. Others wished for the coming of the Lord, not reflecting that he would punish their guilt. (Calmet) --- Thus,...
It should seem from what is here said, that there were characters in those days not unlike the scoffers the Apostle describes, that should come in the last days, who derided the day of the Lord's comi...
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 expresses here more fully what he briefly and obscurely touched upon as to the passing of God through the land; for he shows that the Israelites acted strangely in setting up the name of G...
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...
WOE UNTO YOU THAT DESIRE THE DAY OF THE LORD,.... Either the day of Christ's coming in the flesh, as Cocceius interprets it; and which was desired by the people of Israel, not on account of spiritual...
Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end [is] it for you? the day of the LORD [is] darkness, and not light. Ver. 18. _Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord_] The day of his vi...
_Wo unto you that desire the day of the Lord_ Scoffingly, not believing any such day will come: for this seems to be spoken of some among them, who, in mockery, expressed a desire of seeing those thin...
Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! believing that their external communion with the Lord's people would save them from the judgment which was to strike the heathen. TO WHAT END IS IT FOR YO...
WOE UPON FOOLS AND HYPOCRITES...
18-27 Woe unto those that desire the day of the Lord's judgments, that wish for times of war and confusion; as some who long for changes, hoping to rise upon the ruins of their country! but this shou...
THAT DESIRE, scoffingly, or not believing any such day would come: the prophets had long threatened such a day, but these scoffers thought no such thing could overtake them, and if it did they would k...
Amos 5:18 Woe H1945 desire H183 (H8693) day H3117 LORD H3068 good H4100 day H3117 LORD H3068 darkness...
THE FIRST WOE, CONCERNING THE DAY OF YHWH (AMOS 5:18). A ‘woe' was the opposite of a ‘blessed be you of YHWH'. It was the announcing of troubles and disaster that would come on His people directly fro...
THE DAY OF YHWH THAT IS COMING COME ON ISRAEL WILL BE A DAY OF DARKNESS, NOT LIGHT (AMOS 5:18). Amos 5:18 ‘Woe to you who desire the day of YHWH! Why would you have the day of YHWH? It is darkness,...
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...
_Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! _ THE DAY OF THE LORD I. AN AWAKENING COMMINATION. 1. What is meant by the “day of the Lord”? The day of death, or personal dissolution. The day of ca...
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...
2 Peter 3:10; 2 Peter 3:4; Ezekiel 12:22; Ezekiel 12:27; Isaiah 24:11
That desire — Scoffingly, not believing any such day would come. To what end — What do you think to get by it? Is darkness — All adversity, black and doleful. Not light — No joy, or comfort an it....