--- title: "Amos 5 - Study King James Bible with trapps complete commentary" description: "Read Amos 5 with trapps complete commentary commentary. 1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel. 2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is f" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/amos/5" --- [ Read](/kjv/amos/5)[ Commentary](/study/amos/5)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/amos/5) Audio 1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, *even* a lamentation, O house of Israel. 2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; *there is* none to raise her up. 3 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out *by* a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth *by* an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel. 4 ¶ For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: 5 But seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought. 6 Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour *it*, and *there be* none to quench *it* in Beth-el. 7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, 8 *Seek him* that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD *is* his name: 9 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.* 10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. 11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading *is* upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.* 12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate *from their right*.* 13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it *is* an evil time. 14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken. 15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. 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 did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. 20 *Shall* not the day of the LORD *be* darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it? 21 ¶ I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.* 22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept *them:* neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.* 23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. 24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.* 25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? 26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.* 27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name *is* The God of hosts. [Amos 4](/study/amos/4) [Amos 6](/study/amos/6) ## Commentary To verse 1 [Amo 5:1](/kjv/amo/5/1) Hear ye this word which I take up against you, [even] a lamentation, O house of Israel. Ver. 1. **Hear ye this word** ] A new sermon, as appeareth by this new O yes; not unlike that of St Paul, [Acts 13:16](/kjv/acts/13/16) , "Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience": or rather, that of Diogenes, who cried out at Athens, Aκουσατε ανδρες , Hear, O ye men. And when as (thereupon) a great sort of people resorted to him, expecting some great matter, he looked about him, and said, ανδρας εκαλεσα, ου καθαρματα , I called men, and not slaves. They were no better surely that our prophet had to deal with; "Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers," [Isaiah 1:4](/kjv/isaiah/1/4) , children that were corrupters; they had forsaken the Lord, provoked the Holy One of Israel, they had increased revolt. Hence this *onerosa prophetia,* this word, this weighty word, this burdensome prophecy. **** **Which I take up against you** ] Heb. lift up, being scarce able to stand under the burden of it, גשׁא , from this משׁא , *onus.* burden. *See Trapp on "*[Mal 1:1](/kjv/-mal/1/1) *"* And it is against you, not for you; but that is your own fault; for "do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?" [Micah 2:7](/kjv/micah/2/7) . Excellently Austin, *Adversarius est nobis quandiu sumus et ipsi nobis.* The word of God is adversary to none but such as are adversaries to themselves; neither doth it condemn any but those that shall be assuredly condemned by the Lord except they repent. But we have in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, saith the apostle, [2 Corinthians 10:6](/kjv/2-corinthians/10/6) , and if any man will hurt God’s faithful witnesses, for discharging their duties, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies; and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed, [Revelation 11:5](/kjv/revelation/11/5) , for Elisha had his sword as well as Jehu and Hazael, [1 Kings 19:17](/kjv/1-kings/19/17) . And when Elisha unsheatheth and brandisheth his sword, it is a fair warning that the sword of Jehu and Hazael are at hand,[See Hos 6:5](/kjv/-see-hos/6/5) [Jeremiah 1:18](/kjv/jeremiah/1/18) . **** **Even a lamentation** ] Heb. a very bitter lamentation, [Ezekiel 19:14](/kjv/ezekiel/19/14) , like those of Jeremiah for Judah, or of the mourners in Jerusalem, [Ezekiel 9:4](/kjv/ezekiel/9/4) , or of Christ weeping over that city, [Luke 19:41-42](/kjv/luke/19/41-42) . Or of Paul bewailing his wretched countrymen, [Romans 9:3](/kjv/romans/9/3) ; [Romans 10:1](/kjv/romans/10/1) : or of the two witnesses clothed in sackcloth, [Revelation 11:3](/kjv/revelation/11/3) , the habit of mourners: or of Athanasius, who by his tears (as by the bleeding of a chaste vine) sought to cure the leprosy, and prevent the misery of that tainted age. *Heu, heu, Domine Deus,* Alas alas, Oh God, God, was the cry of the ancient Christians. *Flete nefas magnum, nam toto flebitis orbe* (Cardan.). Their books are like that in Ezekiel, written on both sides, and there was written therein, "lamentations, and mourning, and woe," [Ezekiel 2:10](/kjv/ezekiel/2/10) . This of Amos was a sad song, a doleful ditty, a lamentable prophecy of Israel’s utter destruction, as it followeth in the second verse, where (prophet-like) he speaketh of it as already done, notwithstanding their present prosperity and tranquillity. And have not England’s turtledoves groaned out for a great while the sad and lamentable tunes of woe and misery to this sinful nation; and plainly foretold what we have felt already, and have yet cause enough to fear. Ah! great be the plagues that hang over England (said Mr Philpot, martyr, long since). Happy shall that person be whom the Lord shall take out of this world, not to see them, &c. And the like said Rogers, our proto-martyr, Bradford, Ridley, Lever, &c., besides the concurrent predictions of God’s faithful servants lately, whose hearts and tongues he hath so guided, as that they all, as one man, have denounced heavy judgments, and taken up loud lamentations against us. Now, as before great storms cocks crow loud and thick: so is it here; and so it should be,[Exo 32:31-32](/kjv/-exo/32/31-32)[Jer 18:20](/kjv/-jer/18/20) [Joel 2:17](/kjv/joel/2/17) ; else God will be displeased, [Ezekiel 13:5](/kjv/ezekiel/13/5) ; [Ezekiel 22:30-31](/kjv/ezekiel/22/30-31) . ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com","name":"Real Bible Believers","description":"RBB","publisher":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/search?q={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/amos/5#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","width":672,"height":448,"caption":"Real Bible Believers"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/amos/5#webpage","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/amos/5","name":"Amos 5 - Study King James Bible with trapps complete commentary","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/amos/5#primaryimage"},"author":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"description":"Read Amos 5 with trapps complete commentary commentary. 1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel. 2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is f","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/amos/5#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/amos/5"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/amos/5#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study","name":"Study Bible"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary","name":"trapps complete commentary"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/amos","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/amos","name":"Amos"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/amos/5","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/amos/5","name":"5"}}]},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/android-chrome-512x512.png","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/android-chrome-512x512.png","width":512,"height":512},"logo":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#personlogo"},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/RBiblebeliever","https://www.facebook.com/RBibleBelievers"]}]} ```