Amos 5:20

Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Shall not the Day of the Lord be darkness? - He had described that Day as a day of inevitable destruction, such its man’s own conscience and guil...
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

Shall not. ? Figure of speech Erotesis (App-6), for emphasis and no brightness. Note the Figures of speech Pleonasm and Erotesis (App-6)....
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

“ You have no reason,” he says, “to hope for any light from the day of Jehovah.” Why? “For Jehovah will not come, except when armed; for, as ye c...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
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

Darkness. — In the form of an interrogative, the condemnation contained in Amos 5:18 is emphatically reasserted. The term rendered “very dark” is...
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

[Shall] not the day of the Lord [be] darkness, and not light ?.... The design of such a question is strongly to affirm, that, in this day of the Lor...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Amos 5:20 [Shall] not the day of the LORD [be] darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it? Ver. 20. Shall not the day of t...
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

All these things considered, ye secure, profane, and atheistical scoffers, speak yourselves, will not that day be as dark as I have described, and as...
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 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

Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness and not light? full of tribulation and misery; the day of the Lord is darkness and not light; it would brin...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 34:12 ; Isaiah 13:10 ; Job 10:21 ; Job 10:22 ; Job 3:4-6 ; Jude 1:13 ; Matthew 22:13 ; Nahum 1:8 ; Revelation 16:10

²⁰ Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

Related Commentaries of Amos 5:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the 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

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 Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 5:20