“ But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. ”
But - (And) let judgment run down (Literally, “roll” English margin) “like water.” The duties of either table include both; since there is no true love for man without the love of God, nor any re...
But let judgment run down as (m) waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. (m) Do your duty to God, and to your neighbour, and so you will plentifully feel his grace, if you show your abundant a...
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...
rundown . roll on. Reference to Gilgal mighty . inexhaustible. stream. Hebrew. nahal = . wady, or intermittent stream; not nahar,. constant-flowing river.
Interpreters variously expound this verse. To some it seems an exhortation, as though the Prophet said, “Ye thrust on me victims of beasts and various ceremonies; but I regard not these things;...
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. Let judgment run down - Let the execution of justice be everywhere like the showers that fall upon the land to render it fer...
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. But let judgment - justice. Run down - literally, roll, i:e., flow abundantly ( Isaiah 48:18 ). Without the desi...
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...
Mighty stream. — Or rather perennial stream.
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...
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...
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...
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...
But let judgments run down as waters ,.... Or "roll" o; in abundance, with great rapidity, bearing down all before them, which nothing can resist; signifying the plenty of justice done in the land,...
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. Ver. 24. But let judgment run down ] Heb. roll down freely, plentifully, and plainly, ut devolutus monte praecipiti torr...
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...
Hypocritical Services Rejected; Threatenings against Israel. B. C. 790. 21 I hate, I d...
But, Heb. And judgment: some interpret this of penal judgment, by God threatened against these hypocrites; but it is better understood of justice to be administered by rulers, whose office it w...
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...
CRITICAL NOTES . ] Amos 5:24 . Run] judgments like a flood over the land [ Keil ]. Others take it as an exhortation to practise justice and truth. HOMILETICS JUDGMENTS LIKE A FLOOD.— Amos...
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...
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...
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...
Woe upon Fools and Hypocrites
Amos 5:14 ; Amos 5:15 ; Amos 5:7 ; Hosea 6:6 ; Job 29:12-17 ; Micah 6:8 ; Mark 12:32-34 ; Proverbs 21:3
Let judgment — Let justice be administered constantly. Righteousness — Equity. Stream — Bearing down all that opposes it.