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Amos 6:3
3You put off the day of disaster and bring near a reign of terror.
Amos 6:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
- English Standard Version (ESV)O you who put far away the day of disaster and bring near the seat of violence?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Woe to you who put far off the day of doom, Who cause the seat of violence to come near;
- New Living Translation (NLT)You push away every thought of coming disaster, but your actions only bring the day of judgment closer.
Context of Amos 6:3
1Woe to you who are complacent in Zion, and to you who feel secure on Mount Samaria, you notable men of the foremost nation, to whom the people of Israel come! 2Go to Kalneh and look at it; go from there to great Hamath, and then go down to Gath in Philistia. Are they better off than your two kingdoms? Is their land larger than yours? You put off the day of disaster and bring near a reign of terror. 4You lie on beds adorned with ivory and lounge on your couches. You dine on choice lambs and fattened calves. 5You strum away on your harps like David and improvise on musical instruments.
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הַֽמְנַדִּ֖ים לְי֣וֹם רָ֑ע וַתַּגִּישׁ֖וּן שֶׁ֥בֶת חָמָֽס׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Amos 6:3
- Amos 5:18Woe to you who long for the day of the Lord! Why do you long for the day of the Lord? That day will be darkness, not light.
- Amos 9:10All the sinners among my people will die by the sword, all those who say, ‘Disaster will not overtake or meet us.’
- Ecclesiastes 8:11When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.
- Isaiah 47:7You said, ‘I am forever— the eternal queen!’ But you did not consider these things or reflect on what might happen.
- Isaiah 56:12“Come,” each one cries, “let me get wine! Let us drink our fill of beer! And tomorrow will be like today, or even far better.”
- Ezekiel 12:22“Son of man, what is this proverb you have in the land of Israel: ‘The days go by and every vision comes to nothing’?
- Matthew 24:48But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,’
- 1 Thessalonians 5:3While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
- 2 Peter 3:4They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.”
- Revelation 18:17In one hour such great wealth has been brought to ruin!’ “Every sea captain, and all who travel by ship, the sailors, and all who earn their living from the sea, will stand far off.
- Amos 6:12Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness—
- Amos 5:12For I know how many are your offenses and how great your sins. There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.
- Psalms 94:20Can a corrupt throne be allied with you— a throne that brings on misery by its decrees?
Commentaries on Amos 6:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Ye that put far away the evil day - Wo to you who will not consider the day of approaching vengeance; but continue in your iniquity, and harden your hearts. Ye bring your iniquities nearer, and still suppose your punishment to be at a greater distance.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Ye that put far away - Probably “with aversion.” They bade that day as it were, be gone. The Hebrew idiom expresses, how they would put it off, if they could; as far as in them lay, they “assigned a distance to it,, although they could not remove the day itself. The “evil day” is that same “day of the Lord,” which the scoffers or misbelievers professed to long for Amos 5:18. The thought that the Lord has a Day, in which to judge man, frets or frightens…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3day of calamity (literally seat of violence): By this phrase, Amos either meant that: Israel's actions may have sped up the Assyrian conquest's violence, or the people might have ignored the looming disaster, leading to everyday violence against the poor.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. Ye persuade yourselves that "the evil day" foretold by the prophets is "far off," though they declare it near (Eze 12:22, 27). Ye in your imagination put it far off, and therefore bring near violent oppression, suffering it to sit enthroned, as it were, among you (Psa 94:20). The notion of judgment being far off has always been an incentive to the sinner's recklessness of living (Ec 8:12, 13; Mt 24:48). Yet that very recklessness brings near the evil…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Amos 6
- 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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