“ In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. ”
In this hopelessness as to all relief, those too shall fail and sink under their sufferings, in whom life is freshest and strongest and hope most buoyant. Hope mitigates any sufferings. When hope i...
Development of the Theme of Amos 3. This section, which re-echoes Amos 2:6-8 , has been regarded as a conglomeration of rather loosely-connected fragments ( cf. G. A. Smith). The prophet addresse...
virgins. Hebrew. bethulah (plural) See note on Genesis 24:43 .
The Prophet, having threatened spiritual famine, now adds, that the people would in every respect be barren and destitute of every good: for I take not thirst here in the same sense as before;...
In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst - namely, thirst for hearing the words of the Lord, being...
The Vision of the Ripe Fruit, followed by a Fifth Address 1-3. The vision. 4-14 . The address, denouncing dishonest traders ( Amos 8:4-6 ), threatening earthquakes, eclipse, mourning, a painful...
Faint. — That fair virgins and strong brave youths should faint by reason of their raging thirst suggests that the less vigorous would suffer even more keenly. It is sad when old men stumble into t...
1. EARTHQUAKE, ECLIPSE, AND FAMINE Amos 8:4-14 "Hear this, ye who trample the needy, and would put an end to the lowly of the land, saying, When will the New-Moon be over, that we may sell grai...
the Worst Famine of All Amos 8:1-14 What is more fragile than summer fruit! So beautiful, so refreshing, yet so readily corrupted and diseased. To Amos it was an emblem of the rapidity with whi...
The next vision, that of the basket of summer fruit, indicated the im minence of the judgment. Jehovah declared that the end was come, that He would not pass by them any more. This announcement was...
What an awful sound is here! And how dreadfully awful in that land, that parish, that people, that family, or person, in whom it is fulfilled. A famine of bread the common staff of life is distressin...
In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. After the word, for want of that grain and wine, which make young men and maids cheerful, Zechariah 9:17 ; but, being destitute o...
In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. Ver. 13. In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst ] When God depriveth a People of his ordinances, and s...
And they shall wander from sea to sea From the sea of Tiberias to the great sea, from one border of the country to another. And from the north even to the east The prophet omits naming the south...
Spiritual Famine Threatened; Judgments Threatened. B. C. 785. 11 Behold, the days come...
It is probable these in their strength and rigour would seek earnestly to know what end they might expect, whether they should outlive this famine of the word, and the famine of bread and water, but...
The Fourth Vision - The Vision Of The Basket Of Summer Fruit Indicating That Israel Were About To Be Harvested ( Amos 8:1-14 ). In his fourth vision Amos was shown a basket of summer fruit (e.g. f...
HOMILETICS CRITICAL NOTES.] Amos 8:11 . Famine ] The light and comfort of God’s word shall fail; they despise now what they shall look for in vain then. Amos 8:12 . Wander ] Lit. reel, l...
Amos 8:1 . A basket of summer fruit. The Lord would not wait till the vintage; he would cause their sun, as a nation, to set at noon, and rise no more. Amos 8:5 . That we may sell corn making t...
EXPOSITION Amos 8:1-30 § 5. In the fourth vision, the basket of summer fruit, the Lord shows that the people is ripe for judgment. Explaining this revelation, Amos denounces the oppressio...
A Last Admonition of the Lord
Deuteronomy 32:25 ; Hosea 2:3 ; Isaiah 40:30 ; Isaiah 41:17-20 ; Jeremiah 48:18 ; Lamentations 1:18 ; Lamentations 2:10 ; Lamentations 2:21 ; Psalms 144:12-15 ; Psalms 63:1 ; Zechariah 9:1...