Amos 5:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it? ”

Amos 5:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Shall not the Day of the Lord be darkness? - He had described that Day as a day of inevitable destruction, such its man’s own conscience and guilty fears anticipate, and then appeals to their own...
Amos 5:20 - 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 5:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Shall not. ? Figure of speech Erotesis (App-6), for emphasis and no brightness. Note the Figures of speech Pleonasm and Erotesis (App-6). Some codices omit "and".
Amos 5:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

“ You have no reason,” he says, “to hope for any light from the day of Jehovah.” Why? “For Jehovah will not come, except when armed; for, as ye conduct yourselves in a hostile manner towards him,...
Amos 5:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
Amos 5:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it? No JFB commentary on this verse.
Amos 5:20 - 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 5:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Darkness. — In the form of an interrogative, the condemnation contained in Amos 5:18 is emphatically reasserted. The term rendered “very dark” is that used to denote the gross Egyptian darkness t...
Amos 5:20 - 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 5:20 - 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 5:20 - 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 5:20 - 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 5:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

[Shall] not the day of the Lord [be] darkness, and not light ?.... The design of such a question is strongly to affirm, that, in this day of the Lord spoken of, there should be nothing but misery an...
Amos 5:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Amos 5:20 [Shall] not the day of the LORD [be] darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it? Ver. 20. Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, &c. ] q.d. How say ye n...
Amos 5:20 - 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 5:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Threatenings and Reproofs. B. C. 790. 16 Therefore the L ORD , the God of hosts, the L...
Amos 5:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

All these things considered, ye secure, profane, and atheistical scoffers, speak yourselves, will not that day be as dark as I have described, and as little to your comfort?
Amos 5:20 - 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 5:20 - 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 5:20 - 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 5:20 - 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 5:20 - 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 5:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Woe upon Fools and Hypocrites
Amos 5:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 34:12 ; Isaiah 13:10 ; Job 10:21 ; Job 10:22 ; Job 3:4-6 ; Jude 1:13 ; Matthew 22:13 ; Nahum 1:8 ; Revelation 16:10

Amos 5:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Amos 5:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 5:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Amos 5:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 5:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Amos 5:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Amos 5:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 5:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Amos 5:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Amos 5:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Amos 5:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Amos 5:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Amos 5:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Amos 5:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Amos 5:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 5:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Amos 5:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Amos 5:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 5:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Amos 5:20 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Amos 5:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 5:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Amos 5:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Amos 5:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge