Amos 8:1--9:10
Amos <05986> [Amos.]
basket <03619> [A basket.]
end <07093> [the end.]
There is here not only an allusion to the nature of the summer fruit, which must be eaten as soon as gathered, but also a paronomasia upon the words {kayitz,} "summer fruit," and {ketz,} "an end."
<03254> [I will not.]
singing <07892> [the songs.]
wail <03213> [shall be howlings. Heb. shall howl. many.]
littered <07993> [they shall.]
Be quiet <02013> [with silence. Heb. be silent.]
Listen <08085> [Hear.]
trample <07602> [swallow.]
new moon <02320> [When.]
new moon <02320> [new moon. or, month. be gone.]
Sabbath ................... price <07676 08255> [and the.]
open up <06605> [set forth. Heb. open. making.]
cheat ..... rigged scales <03976 04820 05791> [falsifying the balances by deceit. Heb. perverting the balances of deceit.]
oath <07650> [sworn.]
never <05331> [I will.]
earth <0776> [the land.]
It is supposed that an earthquake is here intended; the rising and falling of the ground, with a wave-like motion, and its leaving its proper place and bounds, in consequence of an earthquake, being justly and beautifully compared to the swelling, overflowing, and subsiding of the Nile.
mourn <056> [every one.]
rise <05927> [rise.]
sun <08121> [that I.]
This is supposed to refer to an eclipse; and Abp. Usher has shown that about eleven years after Amos prophesied there were two great eclipses of the sun, one at the feast of tabernacles, and the other some time before the passover.
dark <02821> [and I.]
turn <02015> [I will turn.]
funeral clothes <08242> [sackcloth.]
funerals ............................ mourn <060> [as the.]
bitter <04751> [a bitter.]
divine revelation <08085> [but.]
wander about <07751> [shall run.]
oaths <07650> [swear.]
sinful <0819> [sin.]
beloved <01870> [manner. Heb. way.]
Beer Sheba <0884> [Beer-sheba. See on ver.]
fall down <05307> [shall fall.]
saw <07200> [I saw.]
altar <04196> [upon.]
Strike <05221> [Smite.]
tops of the support pillars <03730> [lintel. or, chapiter, or knop. cut them. or, wound them. in the head.]
run away <05127> [shall not flee.]
dig ........... up ........ climb up <02864 05927> [Though.]
All these energetic expressions were intended to shew the utter impossibility of escape.
dig <02864> [dig.]
up ........ climb up <05927> [climb.]
hide <02244> [hide.]
hide <05641> [hid.]
Sea Serpent <05175> [the serpent.]
<03212> [go.]
I .... let <07760> [set.]
touches <05060> [toucheth.]
live <03427> [and all.]
rises <05927> [shall rise.]
builds <01129> [buildeth.]
upper rooms <04609> [stories. or, spheres. Heb. ascensions.]
{M„ƒloth,} "upper chambers," which in eastern houses are the principal apartments. Perhaps there is a reference here to the various systems which God has created in illimitable space, transcending each other as the planets do in our system.
supports <092> [troop. or, bundle.]
{Aguddah} probably is the same as the Arabic {ijad,} "an arch, vault," and may here denote the vault of heaven, or atmosphere, which God "hath founded, or established, upon, or over, {Æ’l,} the earth," and into which "he calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth."
summons <07121> [calleth.]
Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
Israelites ...... Ethiopians <01121> [ye not.]
up <05927> [Have not.]
Philistines <06430> [the Philistines.]
Arameans <0758> [the Syrians.]
<05869> [the eyes.]
destroy ............. completely destroy <08045> [and I.]
[savings.]
shake ............. resemble <05128> [and I.]
shake ............. resemble <05128> [sift. Heb. cause to move. grain. Heb. stone.]
sinners <02400> [the sinners.]
Disaster <07451> [The evil.]
