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the book of amos commentary by a. r. fausset chapter 5 amo 5:1-27.elegy over the prostrate kingdom: renewed exhortations to repentance: god declares that the coming day of judgment shall be terrible to the scorners who despise it: ceremonial services are not acceptable to him where true piety exists not: israel shall therefore be removed far eastward.
Dec 19, 2018 · Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is. 15 Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the Lord God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph. 16 Therefore this is what the Lord, the Lord God Almighty, says: “There will be wailing in all the streets and cries of anguish in every public square.
- (1-3) Coming Exile and captivity.
- (4-9) An Invitation to Seek The Lord.
- (10-15) The Cause, The Curse, and The cure.
Hear this word which I take up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel: The virgin of Israel has fallen; She will rise no more. She lies forsaken on her land; There is no one to raise her up. For thus says the Lord GOD: “The city that goes out by a thousand Shall have a hundred left, And that which goes out by a hundred Shall have ten left to...
For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live; But do not seek Bethel, Nor enter Gilgal, Nor pass over to Beersheba; For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, And Bethel shall come to nothing. Seek the LORD and live, Lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph, And devour it, With no one to quench it in Bethel; You who tu...
They hate the one who rebukes in the gate, And they abhor the one who speaks uprightly. Therefore, because you tread down the poor And take grain taxes from him, Though you have built houses of hewn stone, Yet you shall not dwell in them; You have planted pleasant vineyards, But you shall not drink wine from them. For I know your manifold transgres...
The Elegy. - Amos 5:1. "Hear ye this word, which I raise over you; a lamentation, O house of Israel. Amos 5:2. The virgin Israel is fallen; she does not rise up again; cast down upon her soil; no one sets her up. Amos 5:3. For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, The city that goes out by a thousand will retain a hundred, and that which goes out by a ...
The last of them, Amos 9:5-6-which repeats a clause already found in the book {Cf. Amos 8:8} -is as much in sympathy with its context as most of the oracles in the somewhat scattered discourse of that last section of the book. The real difficulty is the second doxology, Amos 5:8-9, which does break the connection, and in a sudden and violent ...
1. (Amos 5:16-20) Wailing and woe in the day of the LORD. Therefore the LORD God of hosts, the Lord, says this: “There shall be wailing in all streets, And they shall say in all the highways, ‘Alas! Alas!’ They shall call the farmer to mourning, And skillful lamenters to wailing. In all vineyards there shall be wailing, For I will pass ...
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chapter 5. amos 5:1-27. elegy over the prostrate kingdom: renewed exhortations to repentance: god declares that the coming day of judgment shall be terrible to the scorners who despise it: ceremonial services are not acceptable to him where true piety exists not: israel shall therefore be removed far eastward.
