Amos 5:1 - Exposition

Hear ye this word. To show the certainty of the judgment and his own feeling about it, the prophet utters his prophecy in the form of a dirge ( kinah, 2 Samuel 1:17 ; 2 Chronicles 35:25 ). Which I take up against you; or, which I raise over you, as if the end had come. O house of Israel; in the vocative. The Vulgate has, Domus Israel cecidit ; so the LXX . But the present Hebrew text is most suitable, making the dirge begin at Amos 5:2 . The ten tribes are addressed as in Amos 5:6 .