Amos 5:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. ”

Amos 5:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Take thou away from Me - Literally, “from upon Me,” that is, from being a burden to Me, a weight on Me. So God says by Isaiah, “your new moons and your appointed feasts My soul hateth; they are a...
Amos 5:23 - 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 5:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

It follows, Take away from me the multitude of thy songs By speaking of multitude, he aims at hypocrites, who toil much in their devices without measure or end, as we see done at this day by...
Amos 5:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. The noise of thy songs - the melody of thy viols - They had both vocal and instrumental music in those sacr...
Amos 5:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. Take thou away from me - literally, 'Take away from upon me;' the idea being that of a burden press...
Amos 5:23 - 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 5:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Songs. — The very sound of their tumultuous songs was a burden to Jehovah. As Christ cleansed the Temple, so would He dispel all this hypocritical and perilous confusion of ideas.
Amos 5:23 - 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 5:23 - 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 5:23 - 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 5:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

We have here the Lord's threatenings concerning the captivity of the people, and which we know came to pass. Stephen, the first martyr, made a quotation from this scripture. Acts 7:42-43 . But what...
Amos 5:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs ,.... The ten tribes, very probably, imitated the, temple music at Jerusalem, both vocal and instrumental, and had their songs and hymns of praise, whic...
Amos 5:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. Ver. 23. Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs ] No more pleasing to me than the grunting of a h...
Amos 5:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I hate and despise your feast-days This and the three following verses are the same in sense with Isaiah 1:11-16 , and the other texts referred to in the margin, on which the reader is desired to...
Amos 5:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Hypocritical Services Rejected; Threatenings against Israel. B. C. 790. 21 I hate, I d...
Amos 5:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The noise of thy songs; by way of contempt and loathing, God calls their songs noise; how harmonious, delightful, and ravishing soever they might be to their ears, they were not pleasing unto God....
Amos 5:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The First Woe, Concerning The Day of YHWH ( Amos 5:18-27 ). A ‘woe' was the opposite of a ‘blessed be you of YHWH'. It was the announcing of troubles and disaster that would come on His people dir...
Amos 5:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES . ] Amos 5:21 .] Festivals and sacrifices will not avert judgments. Your feasts ] of human origin, not Divine appointment ( Isaiah 1:10-15 ); the expression of Divine abhorrence...
Amos 5:23 - 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 5:23 - 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 5:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

I hate, I despise your feast days. The Divinely abhorrent and the Divinely demanded I. The Divinely abhorrent. The same aversion from the ceremonial observances of the insincere and rebellious...
Amos 5:23 - 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 5:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Woe upon Fools and Hypocrites
Amos 5:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 6:5 ; Amos 8:10 ; Amos 8:3
Amos 5:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Thy songs — Used in their sacrifices, and solemn feasts; herein they imitated the temple — worship, but all was unpleasing to the Lord. Will not hear — Not with delight and acceptance. Thy viols —...

Amos 5:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Amos 5:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 5:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 5:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Amos 5:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Amos 5:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 5:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Amos 5:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Amos 5:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Amos 5:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Amos 5:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Amos 5:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Amos 5:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Amos 5:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 5:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Amos 5:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Amos 5:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 5:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Amos 5:23 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Amos 5:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Amos 5:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

Amos 5:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Amos 5:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Amos 5:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 5:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes