Amos 5:18
Alas for them who are longing for the day of Yahweh,—What good to you, is the day of Yahweh? it, being darkness and not light:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
17Ye, in all vineyards, lamentation,—For I will pass along through thy midst, saith Yahweh.
Cross References
Isaiah 5:19Who say—Let his work quicken—let it hasten, That we may see,—And let the purpose of Israel’s Holy One, draw near and come. That we may know!
Isaiah 9:19Through the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, is the land consumed,—And the people have come to be, as fuel for fire, A man unto his own brother, sheweth not pity;
Isaiah 24:18So shall it be—He that fleeth from the sound of the terror! shall fall into the pit, And, he that getteth up out of the midst of the pit, shall be captured in the snare,—For, the windows on high, have opened, And shaken are the foundations of earth.
Isaiah 58:2Yet, me—day by day, do they seek, And in the knowledge of my ways, they delight,—Like a nation that had done righteousness, And the justice of their God, had not forsaken They ask of me the just regulations, In approaching God, they delight.
Jeremiah 30:7Alas! for, great, is that day, so that none is like it,—Yea, a time of anguish it is for Jacob, But out of it, shall he be saved.
Ezekiel 12:27Son of man. Lo! the house of Israel are saying, the vision which he seeth is for many days, Yea for times far away, hath he prophesied.
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 →