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Amos
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Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!” See also: Psalms 22:12Amos 6:1Amos 5:11The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness, “Behold, the days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks. See also: Jeremiah 16:16Psalms 89:35Habakkuk 1:15-16You will go out at the breaks in the wall, everyone straight before her; and you will cast yourselves into Harmon,” says the LORD. See also: Ezekiel 12:5Ezekiel 12:12Matthew 16:26“Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days, See also: Hosea 4:15Ezekiel 20:39Numbers 28:3-4offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them; for this pleases you, you children of Israel,” says the Lord GOD. See also: Leviticus 22:18-21Psalms 81:12Hosea 9:10“I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says the LORD. See also: Haggai 2:17Jeremiah 5:3Isaiah 9:13“I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One field was rained on, and the field where it didn’t rain withered. See also: Exodus 9:26Jeremiah 3:3Exodus 9:4So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says the LORD. See also: Amos 4:61 Kings 18:5Haggai 1:6“I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards, and the swarming locusts have devoured your fig trees and your olive trees; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says the LORD. See also: Deuteronomy 28:22Haggai 2:17Joel 1:4“I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt. I have slain your young men with the sword, and have carried away your horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you haven’t returned to me,” says the LORD. See also: Deuteronomy 28:60Leviticus 26:252 Kings 13:7“I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says the LORD. See also: Zechariah 3:2Isaiah 13:19Jeremiah 23:14“Therefore I will do this to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel. See also: 1 Thessalonians 5:2-4James 4:1-10Amos 9:1-4For, behold, he who forms the mountains, creates the wind, declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: The LORD, the God of Armies, is his name.” See also: Amos 5:8Micah 1:3Amos 9:6
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)23 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Amos 4:1
Ver. 1. Fat kine. He means the great ones that lived in plenty and wealth, (Ch.) and without restraint, (Is. xv. 5. Jer. xlvi. 20. C.) having no compassion for the poor. W. The women who had too great an ascendency over their husbands, like Jezabel, may also be meant. Theod. Grot.
In many parts of the East the women affect being fat.
↑ 1Amos 4:2
Ver. 2. Holiness. He has none but himself to swear by. Heb. vi. 13. His word is infallible; but he condescends to use an oath to make a deeper impression on man. Pikes; spits, or large shields. Heb. also, "They will lead you away with hooks, (in the nose, Is. xxxvii. 29.) and your children with fishhooks," or pots.
You shall be treated like victims, being either roasted or boiled. No part shall be left.
↑ 2Amos 4:3
Ver. 3. Breaches of the city. C. Sept. "naked." Heb. "apart." H. The victors shall divide you among them. C. Armon, a foreign country; some understand it of Armenia, (Ch.) and this is the general opinion. M. Sept. "on Mount Remmon." Theodot. "Mona." Israel was removed into Armenia, "the mountain of Menni." Jer. li. 27.
↑ 3Amos 4:4
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 4. Galgal. Thither the people went of their own accord, as to a place of devotion. Osee iv.
15. Amos ironically tells them to proceed, as Christ addressed the Jews. Mat.
xxiii. 32. C.
After many admonitions have proved fruitless, God suffers infidels to act as they please. W.
This is the most dreadful of his judgments. H. Morning, with haste. Three days. This also may denote the false exactitude of the Israelites to perform what God did not require, while they neglected the most essential duties, like the Pharisees. It may also imply the giving tithes every third year, (Deut. xiv.
28.) or presenting themselves at the three great festivals. Ex. xxiii. 14. The schismatics observed parts of the law, and had a devotion of their own choice.
C.
↑ 4Amos 4:5
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 5. With. Heb. mechamets, (H.) also "without leaven." It was expressly forbidden, (Lev. ii.
11.) though not in the first fruits. Lev. xxiii. 17. It, to beg that God would remember you.
Num. x. 10. Hence the Pharisees did so when they gave alms, (Mat. vi. 2. C.) but out of ostentation. H. Sept. "And they read the law of their own invention, (Theod.) or of God, out of the land, (which the Jews were not to do.
S. Chrys. or. 3. c. Jud. Const. Apost. vi. 24.) and proclaimed praise or confession." H. These interpreters read inaccurately, (C.) krau méuts thure,
&c. yet S. Jerom explains their words of heretics reading the Scriptures out of the true Church, and misapplying them.
↑ 5Amos 4:6
Ver. 6. Dulness, ( stuporem) as when the teeth have bitten at a stone (H.) and are edged. Jer. xxxi.
29. Sept. "gnashing." Heb. "cleanness," through want of food. Eliseus foretold a famine under Achab. 4 K. viii. 1. That of Joel (i.) seems to have happened later than this. C. God sent these afflictions for their amendment. W.
↑ 6Amos 4:7
Ver. 7. Months. The latter rain falls in April. See Deut. xi. 14. C. Harvest. Sept.
have as usual, "vintage." But this is less accurate, as it never rains in the preceding summer months. S.
Jer.
↑ 7Amos 4:9
Ver. 9. Wind. Prot. "blasting." H. "Pestilential air," (Sept. Sym. &c.) which destroys the corn (C.) and men. H.
↑ 9Amos 4:10
Ver. 10. Egypt, as I published the Egyptians, (C.) or the Hebrews, when they came thence, and wished to return. Chal. S. Cyr. Horses. I have deprived you of them, (H.) under Achab and Joachaz. 4 K. vi. and xiii. Nostrils. Hazael slew many subjects of Jehu. 4 K. x. 32. C. The stench of their carcasses and of the locusts caused death or the plague. H.
↑ 10Amos 4:11
Ver. 11. Burning. This comparison shews the condition of Israel. Hardly any escaped. Zac. iii.
2. and 1 Cor. iii. 15. C.
↑ 11Amos 4:12
Ver. 12. These. He mentions not what, to keep them in greater suspense and dread; (S. Jer.) or he will put in execution what he had threatened before. v. 2.
Meet. Sept. "beseech." Aq.
"oppose," or to receive the Messias. S. Jer. Prepare by repentance to find mercy. C. After long captivity, Christ will save some. W.
↑ 12Amos 4:13
Ver. 13. Wind. Sept. "the Spirit, and announcing to man his Christ," (H.) or Cyrus. Theod.
But this version has read improperly. C. Some hence brought an argument against the divinity of the Holy Spirit. S. Jer. Mist. Sept. "the morning and the cloud," spreading light or darkness over man. Earth, on the wings of the wind. Ps. xvii. 11. C.
↑ 13Amos 4:1
Ver. 1. Fat kine. He means the great ones that lived in plenty and wealth, (Ch.) and without restraint, (Is. xv. 5. Jer. xlvi. 20. C.) having no compassion for the poor. W. --- The women who had too great an ascendency over their husbands, like Jezabel, may also be meant. Theod. Grot.
--- In many parts of the East the women affect being fat.
↑ 1Amos 4:2
Ver. 2. Holiness. He has none but himself to swear by. Heb. vi. 13. His word is infallible; but he condescends to use an oath to make a deeper impression on man. --- Pikes; spits, or large shields. Heb. also, "They will lead you away with hooks, (in the nose, Is. xxxvii. 29.) and your children with fish-hooks," or pots.
You shall be treated like victims, being either roasted or boiled. No part shall be left.
↑ 2Amos 4:3
Ver. 3. Breaches of the city. C. --- Sept. "naked." Heb. "apart." H. --- The victors shall divide you among them. C. --- Armon, a foreign country; some understand it of Armenia, (Ch.) and this is the general opinion. M. --- Sept. "on Mount Remmon." Theodot. "Mona." Israel was removed into Armenia, "the mountain of Menni." Jer. li. 27.
↑ 3Amos 4:4
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 4. Galgal. Thither the people went of their own accord, as to a place of devotion. Osee iv.
15. Amos ironically tells them to proceed, as Christ addressed the Jews. Mat.
xxiii. 32. C. ---
After many admonitions have proved fruitless, God suffers infidels to act as they please. W. ---
This is the most dreadful of his judgments. H. --- Morning, with haste. --- Three days. This also may denote the false exactitude of the Israelites to perform what God did not require, while they neglected the most essential duties, like the Pharisees. It may also imply the giving tithes every third year, (Deut. xiv.
28.) or presenting themselves at the three great festivals. Ex. xxiii. 14. The schismatics observed parts of the law, and had a devotion of their own choice.
C.
↑ 4Amos 4:5
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 5. With. Heb. mechamets, (H.) also "without leaven." It was expressly forbidden, (Lev. ii.
11.) though not in the first fruits. Lev. xxiii. 17. --- It, to beg that God would remember you.
Num. x. 10. Hence the Pharisees did so when they gave alms, (Mat. vi. 2. C.) but out of ostentation. H. --- Sept. "And they read the law of their own invention, (Theod.) or of God, out of the land, (which the Jews were not to do.
S. Chrys. or. 3. c. Jud. Const. Apost. vi. 24.) and proclaimed praise or confession." H. --- These interpreters read inaccurately, (C.) krau méuts thure,
&c. yet S. Jerom explains their words of heretics reading the Scriptures out of the true Church, and misapplying them.
↑ 5Amos 4:6
Ver. 6. Dulness, ( stuporem) as when the teeth have bitten at a stone (H.) and are edged. Jer. xxxi.
29. Sept. "gnashing." Heb. "cleanness," through want of food. Eliseus foretold a famine under Achab. 4 K. viii. 1. That of Joel (i.) seems to have happened later than this. C. --- God sent these afflictions for their amendment. W.
↑ 6Amos 4:7
Ver. 7. Months. The latter rain falls in April. See Deut. xi. 14. C. --- Harvest. Sept.
have as usual, "vintage." But this is less accurate, as it never rains in the preceding summer months. S.
Jer.
↑ 7Amos 4:9
Ver. 9. Wind. Prot. "blasting." H. --- "Pestilential air," (Sept. Sym. &c.) which destroys the corn (C.) and men. H.
↑ 9Amos 4:10
Ver. 10. Egypt, as I published the Egyptians, (C.) or the Hebrews, when they came thence, and wished to return. Chal. S. Cyr. --- Horses. I have deprived you of them, (H.) under Achab and Joachaz. 4 K. vi. and xiii. --- Nostrils. Hazael slew many subjects of Jehu. 4 K. x. 32. C. --- The stench of their carcasses and of the locusts caused death or the plague. H.
↑ 10Amos 4:12
Ver. 12. These. He mentions not what, to keep them in greater suspense and dread; (S. Jer.) or he will put in execution what he had threatened before. v. 2.
--- Meet. Sept. "beseech." Aq.
"oppose," or to receive the Messias. S. Jer. --- Prepare by repentance to find mercy. C. --- After long captivity, Christ will save some. W.
↑ 12Amos 4:13
Ver. 13. Wind. Sept. "the Spirit, and announcing to man his Christ," (H.) or Cyrus. Theod. ---
But this version has read improperly. C. --- Some hence brought an argument against the divinity of the Holy Spirit. S. Jer. --- Mist. Sept. "the morning and the cloud," spreading light or darkness over man. --- Earth, on the wings of the wind. Ps. xvii. 11. C.
↑ 13License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses