アモス書 5:17 JC

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Amos 5:16-20

Here is, I. A very terrible threatening of destruction approaching, Amos 5:16, 17. Since they would not take the right course to obtain the favour of God, God would take an effectual course to make them feel the weight of his displeasure. The threatening is introduced with more than ordinary solemnity, to strike an awe upon them; it is not the word of the prophet only (if so, it might be made light of) but it is the Lord Jehovah, who has an infinite eternal being; it is the God of hosts, who... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 5:17

And in all vineyards shall be wailing ,.... The vines being destroyed, and no grapes to be gathered, and put into the press; when there used to be great shoutings, and large expressions of joy, at the gathering in of the vintage, and pressing the grapes; but now there shall be a different tone; see Jeremiah 48:32 ; for I will pass through thee, saith the Lord ; through their cities, towns, and country, fields and vineyards, and destroy all in his way, as he passed through Egypt when... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:17

And in all vineyards shall be wailing - The places where festivity especially used to prevail. I will pass through thee - As I passed, by the ministry of the destroying angel, through Egypt, not to spare, but to destroy. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:17

Verse 17 A reason is now added, why the whole country would be taken up with lamentation and mourning; for the Lord would pass through the whole land. Surely nothing was more to be desired, than that God should visit his own land; but he here declares that he would pass through as an enemy. As then an enemy runs through a country and spreads devastation wherever he comes, such would be the passing through, which the Prophet now threatens. “God, then, of whom ye boast, as dwelling in the midst... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:16-17

The retribution for their incorrigible iniquity is here announced. For "they that would not be reformed by that correction, wherein he dallied with them, shall feel a judgment worthy of God" (Wis. 12:26). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:16-17

The track of the destroyer. Each name of God is a guarantor of his action. It expresses a character, or relation, or operation, in which he thereby reveals himself. The multiplication of his names and titles here is a cumulative argument for the sureness of the matter revealed. He who is God of hosts or the Omnipotent One, Lord or the Absolute One, and Jehovah or the Self-existent One, is the Being with whom to decide is to act, and to will is to accomplish. Of the deliverance so... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:17

Vineyards . The place of mirth and gladness, that, says St. Jerome, "ubi quondam fuit materia laetitiae, sit origo lacrymarum" ( Isaiah 16:10 ). I will pass through thee. A terrible echo of the last plague of Egypt ( Exodus 12:12 ), when God will not "pass over" thee as he did then, but treat thee as Egypt, and "pass through" to smite and punish ( Nahum 1:12 ). read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 5:17

And in all vineyards shall be wailing - All joy should be turned into sorrow. Where aforetime was the vintage-shout in thankfulness for the ingathering, and anticipating gladness to come, there, in the source of their luxury, should be wailing, the forerunner of sorrow to come. it was a vintage, not of wine, but of woe.For I will pass through thee - In the destruction of the firstborn in Egypt, God did not “pass through” but “passed over” them, and they kept, in memory thereof the feast of the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 5:16-17

Amos 5:16-17. Therefore the Lord saith thus The prophet, foreseeing their obstinacy, proceeds in denouncing judgments against them: and the word therefore, which introduces his threatenings, is to be referred to the twelfth verse, and not to the verses immediately foregoing. As if he had said, It is on account of your evil deeds, and because you will not be persuaded to hate the evil and love the good, that the Lord saith thus. Wailing shall be in all streets, and in all the highways ... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Amos 5:16-27

The day of the Lord (5:16-27)God’s terrible judgment will result in grief and mourning throughout the nation, in city and country areas alike (16-17). This intervention of God in judgment is commonly called the day of the Lord. Israelites thought that this day would be one of victory and rejoicing for them because their enemies would be destroyed. Amos tells them that when God acts in judgment, he will act against all the wicked, and Israel will be the first to suffer. There will be no way of... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Amos 5:16-20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 5:17

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:17

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 5:17

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:16-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:16-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 5:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 5:17

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 5:16-17

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Amos 5:16-27

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