Amos 5:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. ”

Amos 5:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Woe unto you that desire - for yourselves. The Day of the Lord - There were “mockers in those days” 2 Peter 3:3-4 ; Jude 1:18 , as there are now, and as there shall be in the last. And as t...
Amos 5:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Woe unto you that (k) desire the day of the LORD! to what end [is] it for you? the day of the LORD [is] darkness, and not light. (k) He speaks in this way because the wicked and hypocrites said they...
Amos 5:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Israel's Delusions. The prophet resumes the subject of Israel's delusions, how she disregards the essential conditions of real welfare. In Amos 5:18-20 he deals with a peculiar example of this, t...
Amos 5:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Woe. The first woe. See the Structure above. the day of the LORD. See notes on Isaiah 2:12 ; Isaiah 13:6 ; Joel 2:1 darkness, and not light. Note the Figure of speech Pleonasm (App-6) for...
Amos 5:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet expresses here more fully what he briefly and obscurely touched upon as to the passing of God through the land; for he shows that the Israelites acted strangely in setting up the na...
Amos 5:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. Wo unto you that desire the day of the Lord - The prophet had often denoun...
Amos 5:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Woe unto you, &c.— Woe unto them that wish for the day of the Lord. And why? To you the day of the Lord will be, &c. Infidels made a mock at the words of the prophets, when they told them...
Amos 5:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! - Woe unto you who do no...
Amos 5:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Amos 5:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Desire the day of the Lord. — Expecting that day to bring you deliverance and judgments upon your enemies. It shall bring the reverse! There is a dark side to the pillar of fire.
Amos 5:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Amos 5:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Dark Day for Hypocrites Amos 5:16-27 Mighty sins had been committed, and mighty judgments were at hand. The oppression of the poor, Amos 5:11 ; the erection of elegant dwellings from unright...
Amos 5:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Amos 5:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

It should seem from what is here said, that there were characters in those days not unlike the scoffers the Apostle describes, that should come in the last days, who derided the day of the Lord's com...
Amos 5:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord ,.... Either the day of Christ's coming in the flesh, as Cocceius interprets it; and which was desired by the people of Israel, not on account of spiritu...
Amos 5:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end [is] it for you? the day of the LORD [is] darkness, and not light. Ver. 18. Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord ] The day of his...
Amos 5:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Wo unto you that desire the day of the Lord Scoffingly, not believing any such day will come: for this seems to be spoken of some among them, who, in mockery, expressed a desire of seeing those thi...
Amos 5:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Threatenings and Reproofs. B. C. 790. 16 Therefore the L ORD , the God of hosts, the L...
Amos 5:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

That desire, scoffingly, or not believing any such day would come: the prophets had long threatened such a day, but these scoffers thought no such thing could overtake them, and if it did they woul...
Amos 5:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Day Of YHWH That Is Coming Come On Israel Will Be A Day Of Darkness, Not Light ( Amos 5:18-20 ). Amos 5:18 ‘Woe to you who desire the day of YHWH! Why would you have the day of YHWH? It is...
Amos 5:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES . ] Amos 5:16 . Therefore] if ye seek not God, there will be lamentation not only by professional mourners, but in the streets of the city, in all towns of the kingdom, and in pla...
Amos 5:18 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 5:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Amos 5:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! The day of the Lord I. AN AWAKENING COMMINATION. 1. What is meant by the “day of the Lord”? The day of death, or personal dissolution. The day...
Amos 5:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Amos 5:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Woe upon Fools and Hypocrites
Amos 5:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Peter 3:10 ; 2 Peter 3:4 ; Ezekiel 12:22 ; Ezekiel 12:27 ; Isaiah 24:11 ; Isaiah 24:12 ; Isaiah 28:15-22 ; Isaiah 5:19 ; Isaiah 5:30 ; Isaiah 9:19 ; Jeremiah 17:15 ; Jeremiah 30:7 ; Jo...
Amos 5:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

That desire — Scoffingly, not believing any such day would come. To what end — What do you think to get by it? Is darkness — All adversity, black and doleful. Not light — No joy, or comfort an it.

Amos 5:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Amos 5:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Amos 5:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 5:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Amos 5:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 5:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Amos 5:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Amos 5:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Amos 5:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 5:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Amos 5:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Amos 5:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Amos 5:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Amos 5:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Amos 5:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Amos 5:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Amos 5:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 5:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Amos 5:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Amos 5:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 5:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Amos 5:18 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Amos 5:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 5:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

Amos 5:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Amos 5:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Amos 5:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 5:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes