Isa 5:7, 33:15, 58:6, Jer 7:6-7, Amo 2:6, 8:4-6, Mic 2:1, 3:2 | TSK | STEP | the vineyard. his pleasant plant. Heb. plant of his pleasures. he looked. but.The paronomasia, or play of words, is very remarkable here: he looked for {mishpat,} "judgment," but behold {mispach,} "oppression;" for {tzedakah,} "justice," but behold {tzëdkah,} "a cry." oppression. Heb. a scab. a cry.

Isaiah 5:7

the vineyard.

his pleasant plant. Heb. plant of his pleasures.

62:5; Ps 147:11; 149:4; So 7:6; Zep 3:17

he looked.

2; 58:6-8; Ex 22:22-27; Mic 6:8; Zec 7:9-14; Mt 3:8-10; 23:23

but.The paronomasia, or play of words, is very remarkable here: he looked for {mishpat,} "judgment," but behold {mispach,} "oppression;" for {tzedakah,} "justice," but behold {tzëdkah,} "a cry."

oppression. Heb. a scab.

1:6; 3:17

a cry.

Ge 4:10; Ex 2:23,24; 3:7; 22:21-24,27; De 15:9; Ne 5:1-5

Job 31:38,39; 34:28; Pr 21:13; Lu 18:7; Jas 5:4

Isaiah 33:15

that walketh.

56:1,2; Ps 1:1-3; 15:1,2; 24:4,5; 26:1,2; 106:3; Eze 18:15-17

Mal 2:6; Lu 1:6; Ro 2:7; Tit 2:11,12; 1Jo 3:7

righteously. Heb. in righteousnesses. uprightly. Heb. inuprightnesses. despiseth.

Ne 5:7-13; Job 31:13-25; Lu 3:12-14; 19:8; Jas 5:4

oppressions. or, deceits. shaketh.

Ex 23:6-9; Nu 16:15; De 16:19; 1Sa 12:3; Jer 5:26-28; Mic 7:3,4

Mt 26:15; Ac 8:18-23; 2Pe 2:14-16

stoppeth.

1Sa 24:4-7; 26:8-11; Job 31:29-31; Ps 26:4-6,9-11; Jer 40:15,16

Eph 5:11-13

blood. Heb. bloods. shutteth.

Ps 119:37

Isaiah 58:6

to loose.

Ne 5:10-12; Jer 34:8-11; Mic 3:2-4

heavy burdens. Heb. bundles of the yoke. oppressed. Heb.broken. ye break.

1Ti 6:1

Jeremiah 7:6-7

oppress.

22:3,4,15,16; Ex 22:21-24; De 24:17; 27:19; Job 31:13-22

Ps 82:3,4; Zec 7:9-12; Mal 3:5; Jas 1:27

and shed.

2:30,34; 22:17; 26:15,23; 2Ki 21:6; 24:4; Ps 106:38; Isa 59:7

La 4:13; Eze 22:3-6; Mt 23:35-37; 27:4,25

neither walk.

13:10; De 6:14,15; 8:19; 11:28; Eze 18:6

will I.

17:20-27; 18:7,8; 25:5

in the land.

3:18; De 4:40; 2Ch 33:8

Amos 2:6

Thus saith.Amos, says Abp. Newcome, first prophesies against the Syrians, Philistines, Tyrians, Edomites, Ammonites, and Moabites, who dwelt in the neighbourhood of the twelve tribes, and had occasionally become their enemies and persecutors. Having thus taught his countrymen that the providence of God extended to other nations, he briefly mentions the idolatrous practices and consequent destruction of Judah, and then passes on to his proper subject, which was to exhort and reprove the kingdom of Israel, and to denounce against it the Divine judgments.

For three.

6:3-7; 2Ki 17:7-18; 18:12; Eze 23:5-9; Ho 4:1,2,11-14; 7:7-10; 8:4-6

Ho 13:2,3; Mic 6:10-16

because.

5:11,12; 8:4-6; Isa 5:22,23; 29:21; Joe 3:3,6; Mic 3:2,3