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13 Therefore athe prudent keep silent at that time,
For it is an evil time. 
14 Seek good and not evil,
That you may live;
So the Lord God of hosts will be with you,
aAs you have spoken. 
15 aHate evil, love good;
Establish justice in the gate.
bIt may be that the Lord God of hosts
Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.  

The Day of the Lord

16 Therefore the Lord God of hosts, the Lord, says this:
“There shall be wailing in all streets,
And they shall say in all the highways,
‘Alas! Alas!’
They shall call the farmer to mourning,
aAnd skillful lamenters to wailing. 
17 In all vineyards there shall be wailing,
For aI will pass through you,”
Says the Lord. 
18 aWoe to you who desire the day of the Lord!
For what good is bthe day of the Lord to you?
It will be darkness, and not light. 
19 It will be aas though a man fled from a lion,
And a bear met him!
Or as though he went into the house,
Leaned his hand on the wall,
And a serpent bit him! 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Amos 5:15

Hate . . . evil . . . love . . . good— (Isaiah 1:16-17; Romans 12:9).

judgment in the gate—justice in the place where causes are tried.

it may be that the Lord . . . will be gracious—so, "peradventure" (Exodus 32:30). Not that men are to come to God with an uncertainty whether or no He will be gracious: the expression merely implies the difficulty in the way, because of the want of true repentance on man's part, so as to stimulate the zealous earnestness of believers in seeking God (compare Genesis 16:2; Joel 2:14; Acts 8:22).

the remnant of Joseph—(see Amos 5:6). Israel (represented by "Ephraim," the leading tribe, and descendant of Joseph) was, as compared to what it once was, now but a remnant, Hazael of Syria having smitten all the coasts from Jordan eastward, Gilead and Bashan, Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh (II Kings 10:32-33) [HENDERSON]. Rather, "the remnant of Israel that shall have been left after the wicked have been destroyed" [MAURER].




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Amos 5:15:

Amos 4:12
Amos 5:16

 

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