Amos 8:7-10
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.]
