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Sense of the Prophets and Psalms.1 This work includes a verse-by-verse overview of each of the nine chapters of Amos. The overview gives a general statement about the internal sense.
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- (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...
c. Seek good and not evil, that you may live; so the LORD God of hosts will be with you: Amos proclaimed God’s cure for Israel’s sin. They must begin to simply seek good and not evil. They must transform their corrupt courts and establish justice in the gates. B. Wailing and woe upon Israel. 1. (Amos 5:16-20) Wailing and woe in the day of ...
MULZAC: AMOS 5:18—20 97 Òwith presumptuous arroganceÓ (5:14, 18—20; 6:3).18 It was into this milieu that Amos was called to pronounce the message of the ÒDay of the Lord.Ó Interpretation The Ho¤y Particle. The passage (5:18—20) begins as a woe oracle, as indi-cated by the ho¤y particle.19 Since the particle is not completely defined ...
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2024. The essay delves into the theological implications of the Day of the Lord as portrayed in the book of Amos. Set against the backdrop of social injustice, economic exploitation, and religious corruption in the Northern Kingdom of Israel during the 8th century BCE, Amos's prophetic message serves as a sobering reminder of God's covenantal relationship with His people and the consequences ...
Verse 7. - The prophet brings out the con-trust between Israel's moral corruption and God's omnipotence. Ye who turn judgment to wormwood. As Jerome puts it," Converterunt dulcedinem judicii in absinthii amaritudinem," "They turned the sweetness of judgment into the bitterness of absinth" (comp. Amos 6:12).
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The chapter concludes with a prophecy of exile for the unrepentant Israelites. Amos Chapter 5 is a poignant chapter from the Old Testament prophetic book of Amos. This chapter presents the divine lament over the impending destruction of Israel due to their persistent sinfulness and societal injustices.
