Amos 5:18

Hoy unto you that desire the Yom Hashem! 1 Why do ye seek it? 1 The Yom Hashem is choshech, and not ohr. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.

In Context

17And in all kramim (vineyards) shall be wailing; 1 for I will pass through thee, saith Hashem. 1

19As if a man did flee from an ari, 1 and a dov met him; 1 or went into the bais, 1 and leaned his hand on the kir (wall), 1 and a nachash bit him. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 5:19That say, Let Him make speed, and hasten His Ma'aseh, 1 that we may see it; 1 and let the Atzat Kadosh Yisroel (purpose of the Holy One of Israel) draw near and come, 1 that we may know it! 1

Isaiah 9:19And they grab on the yamin (right hand), and are still hungry; 1 and shall eat on the smol (left hand), and they shall not be satisfied; 1 they shall eat every ish the basar of his own zero'a; 1

Isaiah 24:18And it shall come to pass, 1 that he who fleeth from the noise of the pachad 1 shall fall into the pachat; 1 and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pachat 1 shall be caught in the pach; 1 for the arubot (windows [see Gn 7:11]) from on high are opened, 1 and the Mosedei Eretz (foundations of the Earth) do shake. 1

Isaiah 58:2Yet they seek Me yom yom (daily), 1 and for the da'as of My Drakhim they seem eager, 1 like a Goy (Nation) that doeth tzedakah, 1 like one that did not forsake mishpat Elohav; 1 they ask of Me the mishpetei-tzedek; 1 they seem eager for kirvat Elohim (getting close to G-d, revival). 1

Jeremiah 30:7Alas! For gadol hayom, 1 so that none is like it; 1 it is even the Et (Time) of Tzarah l'Ya'akov (Jacobʼs Trouble), 1 but he shall be saved out of it.

Ezekiel 12:27Ben adam, hinei, they of Bais Yisroel say, The chazon that he seeth is for yamim rabbim to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are far off.

Matthew Henry on Amos 5:17-21

Threatenings and Reproofs. ( b. c. 790.) 16 Therefore the Lord , the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. 17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the Lord . 18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord ! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. 19 As if a man… Read the whole commentary →

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