アモス書 8:8-10 JC

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:1-14

§ 5. In the fourth vision, the basket of summer fruit, the Lord shows that the people is ripe for judgment. Explaining this revelation, Amos denounces the oppression and greed of the chieftains (verses 4-10), and warns them that those who despise the Word of God shall some day suffer from a famine of the Word (verses 11-14). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:4-10

Avarice. "Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land. to fail," etc. The prophet here resumes his denunciatory discourse to the avaricious oppressors of the people. The verses may be taken as God's homily to greedy men. "Hear this." Hush! pay attention to what I am going to say. Listen, "ye that swallow up the needy." The words suggest three remarks concerning avarice. I. IT IS EXECRABLE IN ITS SPIRIT . 1 . It is sacrilegious. "When... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:8

Shall not the land tremble for this? "This" is the coming judgment, or the oath with which God announced it in the previous verse and the prophet asks, "Shall not the land tremble as with an earthquake when the Lord comes to judgement?" The LXX ; rendering ἐπὶ τούτοις , takes the reference to be to the "works" or sins of the people ( Amos 8:7 ); but the thought in these two verses is the punishment of the transgressions, not the transgressors themselves. And it shall rise up wholly... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:8-10

Carried away as with a flood. A man in earnest is always graphic. If he be also inspired he can afford to be explicit. In this passage Amos is both. The words were spoken before the convulsions they foretell, and written after some of them had occurred. But the descriptions of events, transpired between the speaking and the writing, have no flavour of an ex post facto deliverance. There is a bare record of the original verbal utterance without the attempt to write into any part of it... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:9

I will cause the sun to go down at noon. This is probably to be taken metaphorically of a sudden calamity occurring in the very height of seeming prosperity, such as the fate of Israel in Pekah's time, and Pekah's own murder ( 2 Kings 15:29 , 2 Kings 15:30 ; see also 2 Kings 17:1-6 ). A like metaphor is common enough; e.g. Joel 2:2 : Joel 3:15 ; Micah 3:6 ; Job 5:14 ; Isaiah 13:10 ; Jeremiah 15:9 . Hind calculates that there were two solar eclipses visible in Palestine in... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:9

A sunset at noon. This language is at once prophetic and figurative. It predicts an event in the moral world under the figure of an analogous event in the physical world. The symbolical event is not an eclipse of the sun, which the language does not suit, but his going down at midday; and the event symbolized is clearly death in the midst of young life. Israel was rich and prosperous and young. To all outward seeming she was just in the meridian of her life. But her sun would never reach... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning, etc. (comp. Amos 8:3 : Amos 5:16 , Amos 5:17 ; Lamentations 5:15 ; Hosea 2:11 ; Tobit 2:6). Sackcloth . A token of mourning ( 1 Kings 20:31 ; Isaiah 15:3 ; Joel 1:8 , Joel 1:13 ). Baldness. On shaving the head as a sign of mourning, see note on Micah 1:16 ; and comp. Job 1:20 ; Isaiah 3:24 ; Jeremiah 16:6 ; Jeremiah 47:5 ; Ezekiel 7:18 ). I will make it; Ponam eam (Vulgate); sc . terram . But it is better to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:10

A bitter day. There is something incongruous in this language. Day is the bright and beauteous gift of God, and its sunlight and all the glory it reveals may justly be taken as the emblem of happiness and prosperity. The light is sweet; the day is joyous. Yet here there is depicted a bitter day! The context makes it evident that this is attributable to sin, which makes all sweet things bitter, and all bright things dim. I. THE BITTER DAY OF ISRAEL CONTRASTS WITH BYGONE... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 8:8

Shall not the land tremble for this? - o: “For the greater impressiveness, he ascribes to the insensate earth sense, indignation, horror, trembling. For all creation feels the will of its Creator.” “It shall rise up wholly as a flood,” literally, “like the river.” It is the Egyptian name for “river, which Israel brought with it out of Egypt, and is used either for the Nile, or for one of the artificial “trenches,” derived from it. “And it shall be cast out and drowned,” literally, “shall toss... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 8:9

I will cause the sun to go down - Darkness is heaviest and blackest in contrast with the brightest light; sorrow is saddest, when it comes upon fearless joy. God commonly, in His mercy, sends heralds of coming sorrow; very few burst suddenly on man. Now, in the meridian brightness of the day of Israel, the blackness of night should fall at once upon him. Not only was light to be displaced by darkness, but “then,” when it was most opposite to the course of nature. Not by gradual decay, but by a... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:1-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:4-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:8-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:10

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 8:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 8:9

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