“ Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time. ”
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time - The “time” may be either the time of the obduracy of the wicked, or that of the common punishment. For a time may be called “evil,” whether...
Therefore (h) the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it [is] an evil time. (h) God will so plague them that they will not allow the godly to open their mouths once to admonish them of thei...
The Impending Punishment. The prophet gives his next few words the form of a dirge ( kî nah , Amos 5:1 ). This ( Amos 5:2 ) is characterised by the peculiar kî nah-metre , consisting of three b...
Therefore, &c. Compare Proverbs 28:11 ; Proverbs 28:28 . an evil time,. time of calamity. Hebrew raa'. App-44. See note on Amos 3:6 .
Some interpreters think that a punishment is here denounced on the people of Israel, and that is, that the Lord would deprive them of Prophets and teachers. We indeed know that nothing is more...
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time. The prudent shall keep silence - A wise man will consider that it is useless to complain. He can have no justice witho...
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence, &c.— "The prophet who finds that he shall not be heard, and that his remonstrances will not be regarded, shall retire, and keep silence till the Lord c...
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time. Therefore the prudent - the spiritually wise. Shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time - not...
The Third Address 1-6. A lament, a warning, and an invitation. 7, 10-20 . Denunciation of injustice and oppression, with threats of pestilence and judgment. 21-27 . A repudiation of their atte...
Prudent... silence. — The dumb silence of the prudent is the awful curse which comes upon a people when they are given up to selfishness and rapacity. Thus the doom: — “Ephraim is joined to idols,...
2. FOR WORSHIP, JUSTICE Amos 5:1-27 In the next of these groups of oracles Amos continues his attack on the national ritual, and now contrasts it with the service of God in public life-the reli...
“Prepare to Meet Thy God” Amos 4:12-13 ; Amos 5:1-15 Worse judgments than those mentioned in the previous verses were in store but before they are inflicted, the entire nation is summoned to t...
The third discourse was a description of Jehovah's judgment. This opened with a lamentation for the virgin of Israel, "The virgin of Israel is fallen, she shall no more rise, she is cast down upon he...
The first verse in this paragraph is a confirmation, if it were needed, of what I advanced in my observations on the former. Seeking the Lord, implies the hope of finding him, and indeed the promise...
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence at that time ,.... Not the prophets of the Lord, whose business it was at all times to reprove, and not hold their peace, let the consequence be what it woul...
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it [is] an evil time. Ver. 13. Therefore the prudent shall keep silence ] According to that old and good rule, Either keep silence, or sp...
Forasmuch, therefore, as your treading is upon the poor It appears by this, that their acts of oppression were more than ordinarily proud and tyrannical. They were the effect of fraud executed with...
God's Message to Israel; The Aggravated Sins of Israel; Warnings and Exhortations; Exhortations and Encouragements. B. C. 790....
Therefore, because that men are so universally impatient of hearing reproof, and yet their sins so much abound, and so much deserve reproof; since they will sooner turn against the speaker, than tu...
A Lamentation Over Israel ( Amos 5:1-17 ). While speaking powerfully Amos had no joy in what was to happen to Israel, and having pronounced judgment on them, he now laments what must necessarily b...
CRITICAL NOTES . ] Amos 5:7-9 .] God in his omnipotence in contrast with the ungodly people, indicating that he who can destroy should be feared. Wormwood] Justice embittered, corrupted, and m...
Amos 5:4 . For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: And that it just the message of God to professing Christians now: «Seek ye me.» Get away from your mere...
Amos 5:2 . The virgin of Israel is fallen. Babylon, which had never been stormed by a besieging army, is called a virgin. Isaiah 47:1 . Thus Israel, whose kingdom had never yet been wholly subdue...
EXPOSITION Verse 1-ch. 6:14 § 8. Third address : the prophet utters a lamentation over the fall of Israel . ( Amos 6:1-30 .) He calls her to repentance, while he shows wherein she has decli...
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time, for it is an evil time, and when things have reached such extremities as here pictured, all admonitions are futile. Still the love of the prophe...
2 Timothy 3:1 ; Amos 6:10 ; Ecclesiastes 3:7 ; Ecclesiastes 9:12 ; Ephesians 5:15 ; Ephesians 5:16 ; Ephesians 6:13 ; Habakkuk 3:16 ; Hosea 4:4 ; Isaiah 36:21 ; Isaiah 37:3 ; Micah 2:3 ;...
Shall keep silence — Be forced to it. Evil — Both for the sinfulness of it, and for the troubles, wars, and captivity now at hand.