Amos 5:18

Related Commentaries of 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 ar...
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 th...
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:...
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....
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 t...
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...
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...
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 de...
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 a...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Day of the Lord ] see Intro., and cp. Isaiah 5:30 ; Isaiah 8:22 ; Joel 2:2 ; Obadiah 1:15 . 21 . Festivals such as Tabernacles ( 1 Kings 12:33...
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 d...
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...
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 5:1...
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...
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 th...
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...
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...
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,...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Threatenings and Reproofs. B. C. 790. ...
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...
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 o...
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 troub...
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...
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 Chr...
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 Isra...
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”? T...
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 t...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Woe upon Fools and Hypocrites
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! believing that their external communion with the Lord's people would save them from the judgment which...
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 a...

¹⁸ 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.

Related Commentaries of Amos 5:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Amos 5:18