Amo 5:1 | Clarke | STEP | This chapter opens with a tender and pathetic lamentation, in the style of a funeral song, over the house of Israel, , . The prophet then glances at the awful threatening denounced against them, ; earnestly exhorting them to renounce their idols, and seek Jehovah, of whom he gives a very magnificent description, . He then reproves their injustice and oppression with great warmth and indignation; exhorts them again to repentance; and enforces his exhortation with the most awful threatenings, delivered with great majesty and authority, and in images full of beauty and grandeur, . The chapter concludes with observing that their idolatry was of long standing, that they increased the national guilt, by adding to the sins of their fathers; and that their punishment, therefore, should be great in proportion, . Formerly numbers of them were brought captive to Damascus, , ; but now they must go beyond it to Assyria, ; . Verse 1 Hear ye this word - Attend to this doleful song which I make for the house of Israel.

Amos 5:1

Introduction

This chapter opens with a tender and pathetic lamentation, in the style of a funeral song, over the house of Israel, Amo 5:1, Amo 5:2. The prophet then glances at the awful threatening denounced against them, Amo 5:3; earnestly exhorting them to renounce their idols, and seek Jehovah, of whom he gives a very magnificent description, Amo 5:4-9. He then reproves their injustice and oppression with great warmth and indignation; exhorts them again to repentance; and enforces his exhortation with the most awful threatenings, delivered with great majesty and authority, and in images full of beauty and grandeur, Amo 5:10-24. The chapter concludes with observing that their idolatry was of long standing, that they increased the national guilt, by adding to the sins of their fathers; and that their punishment, therefore, should be great in proportion, Amo 5:25-27. Formerly numbers of them were brought captive to Damascus, 2Kgs 10:32, 2Kgs 10:33; but now they must go beyond it to Assyria, 2Kgs 15:29; 2Kgs 17:6.

Verse 1

Hear ye this word - Attend to this doleful song which I make for the house of Israel.