New American Standard Bible 2020
Amos 5:18-27
18Woe to you who are longing for the 1day of the Lord, For what 2purpose will the day of the Lord be to you? It will be 3darkness and not light;19As when a man 4flees from a lion And a bear confronts him, 5Or he goes home, leans with his hand against the wall, And a snake bites him.20Will the day of the Lord not be 6darkness instead of light, Even gloom with no brightness in it?
21“I hate, I 7reject your festivals, Nor do I 89delight in your festive assemblies.22Even though you 10offer up to Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them; And I will not even look at the 11peace offerings of your fattened oxen.23Take away from Me the noise of your songs; I will not even listen to the sound of your harps.24But let 12justice roll out like waters, And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
25“1314Did you present Me with sacrifices and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, house of Israel? 2615You also carried along 16Sikkuth your king and 17Kiyyun, your images, 18the star of your gods which you made for yourselves. 27Therefore I will make you go into exile beyond Damascus,” says the Lord, whose name is the God of armies.
Notes
- 1. Amos 5:18 Is 5:19; Jer 30:7; Joel 1:15; 2:1, 11, 31 ↩
- 2. Amos 5:18 Lit will this be to you, the day ↩
- 3. Amos 5:18 Is 5:30; Joel 2:2 ↩
- 4. Amos 5:19 Job 20:24; Is 24:17, 18; Jer 15:2, 3; 48:44 ↩
- 5. Amos 5:19 Or Then ↩
- 6. Amos 5:20 Is 13:10; Zeph 1:15 ↩
- 7. Amos 5:21 Is 1:11-16; 66:3; Amos 4:4, 5; 8:10 ↩
- 8. Amos 5:21 Lit like to smell your ↩
- 9. Amos 5:21 Lev 26:31; Jer 14:12; Hos 5:6 ↩
- 10. Amos 5:22 Is 66:3; Mic 6:6, 7 ↩
- 11. Amos 5:22 Lev 7:11-15; Amos 4:5 ↩
- 12. Amos 5:24 Jer 22:3; Ezek 45:9; Mic 6:8 ↩
- 13. Amos 5:25 Or You presented Me with the sacrifices and a grain offering ↩
- 14. Amos 5:25 Deut 32:17; Josh 24:14; Neh 9:18-21; Acts 7:42, 43 ↩
- 15. Amos 5:26 Acts 7:43 ↩
- 16. Amos 5:26 Or Sakkuth (Saturn), or the tabernacle of your Moloch ↩
- 17. Amos 5:26 Or Kaiwan (Saturn), or stands of ↩
- 18. Amos 5:26 Or your star gods ↩
Commentaries on Amos 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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