Amos 6:5; Amos 8:10; Amos 8:3
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 an...
Israel's Delusions. The prophet resumes the subject of Israel's delusions, how she disregards the essential conditions of real welfare. In Amos 5:...
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 wit...
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 h...
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 fr...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 quotat...
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs ,.... The ten tribes, very probably, imitated the, temple music at Jerusalem, both vocal and instrumen...
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...
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...
Hypocritical Services Rejected; Threatenings against Israel. B. C. 790....
The noise of thy songs; by way of contempt and loathing, God calls their songs noise; how harmonious, delightful, and ravishing soever they might b...
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...
The Day Of Darkness Is Coming Because Of The Falsity of Their Worship In That While They Worship They Ignore Justice And Righteousness ( Amos 5:21-2...
CRITICAL NOTES . ] Amos 5:21 .] Festivals and sacrifices will not avert judgments. Your feasts ] of human origin, not Divine appointment ( Isai...
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...
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...
I hate, I despise your feast days. The Divinely abhorrent and the Divinely demanded I. The Divinely abhorrent. The same aversion from the cerem...
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...
Woe upon Fools and Hypocrites
Take thou away from Me the noise of thy songs, as He contemptuously calls their congregational singing; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols,...
Thy songs — Used in their sacrifices, and solemn feasts; herein they imitated the temple — worship, but all was unpleasing to the Lord. Will not he...
23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.