Amos 6:3 - Exposition

Ye that put far away the evil day. They assigned a distant date to the time of punishment and calamity; they would not look it in the face or contemplate it as approaching and ready to come upon them. Septuagint, οἱ ἐρχόμενοι εἰς ἡμέραν κάκην , "Ye who are coming unto the evil day." The Alexandrian manuscript has οἱ εὐχόμενοι , "ye who pray for" ( Amos 5:18 ), with which the Syriac seems to agree. The Vulgate (as Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion), taking the verb passively, renders , qui separati estis in diem malum. But it is beat to translate it as above, in the sense of "repelling," "putting away with aversion," as in Isaiah 66:5 . And cause the seat of violence to come near. They erected the throne ( shebheth , "the sitting," or "enthroning") of violence in their midst, made themselves the subjects and slaves of wickedness and oppression. The LXX ; mistaking shebheth for shabbath translates, οἱ ἐγγίζοντες καὶ ἐφαπτόμενοι σαββάτων ψευδῶν . "Ye who are drawing near and clinging to false sabbaths."