阿摩司書 8:12-13 RCUVTS

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 8:13

This verse is parallel to the preceding. The thirst, spiritual and physical, shall affect the fair virgins and young men —those in all the freshness, beauty, and vigour of youth. Shall faint; literally, shall be veiled, covered, expressive of the feeling of faintness, when the sight grows dim and a mantle of darkness drops over one ( Jonah 4:8 ). If the strongest thus fail, much more will the rest succumb to the threatened calamity. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 8:12

They shall wander - Literally, “reel.” The word is used of the reeling of drunkards, of the swaying to and fro of trees in the wind, of the quivering of the lips of one agitated, and then of the unsteady seeking of persons bewildered, looking for what they know not where to find. “From sea to sea,” from the sea of Galilee to the Mediterranean, that is, from east to west, “and from the north even to the sunrising,” round again to the east, from where their search had begun, where light should... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 8:13

In this hopelessness as to all relief, those too shall fail and sink under their sufferings, in whom life is freshest and strongest and hope most buoyant. Hope mitigates any sufferings. When hope is gone, the powers of life, which it sustains, give way. “They shall faint for thirst,” literally, “shall be mantled over, covered” , as, in fact, one fainting seems to feel as if a veil came over his brow and eyes. “Thirst,” as it is an intenser suffering than bodily hunger, includes sufferings of... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 8:12-13

Amos 8:12-13. And they shall wander from sea to sea From the sea of Tiberias to the great sea, from one border of the country to another. And from the north even to the east The prophet omits naming the south, because the idolaters, to whom he directs his discourse, would choose to inquire anywhere rather than of the true prophets of the Lord, who dwelt in the tribe of Judah, which was situated to the south of the ten tribes. They shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord To... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Amos 8:1-14

Israel nears its end (8:1-14)Just as the harvest comes to an end and the fruit is gathered into baskets, so Israel has come to its end and will be punished. Celebration will be turned to mourning, and hope will be replaced by despair. When the enemy attacks, the slaughter will be so extensive that bodies will lie unburied in the streets and fields for days (8:1-3).Amos returns to conditions in Israel to indicate that one reason for the nation’s downfall is the upper classes’ exploitation of the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 8:12

wander. Hebrew go tottering, or staggering. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 8:13

virgins. Hebrew. bethulah (plural) See note on Genesis 24:43 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Amos 8:12

"And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah, and shall not find it."Although this was fulfilled by the cessation of the prophetic missions to Israel in the long centuries preceding Christ:"The wide scope taken by the prophecy, which is not exhausted by one fulfillment, reveals here the fate of the Jews to the present time hopelessly seeking Messiah and the Word of God, never finding that which they once... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Amos 8:13

"In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst."This indicates that the flower and glory of Israel shall not be spared from the disaster achieved by their leaders who were the architects of their long and stubborn rebellion against God. But it must not be thought that the terrible results of such a famine were restricted to Israel. No, indeed! Every people which forgets God and rejects the Christ shall suffer the same fate; and there is much in our own culture today to... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Amos 8:12

Amos 8:12. They shall wander from sea to sea, &c.— From the west to the south. Houbigant. read more