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Amos
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Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit. See also: Amos 7:1Amos 7:4Amos 7:7He said, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the LORD said to me, “The end has come on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more. See also: Amos 7:8Lamentations 4:18Micah 7:1The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord GOD. “The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence. See also: Amos 6:9-10Amos 5:23Jeremiah 9:21-22Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail, See also: Proverbs 30:14Amos 5:11Psalms 14:4saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit; See also: Nehemiah 13:15-21Micah 6:10-11Hosea 12:7that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’” See also: Amos 2:6Amos 8:4Joel 3:3The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their works. See also: Amos 6:8Hosea 9:9Hosea 8:13Won’t the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt. See also: Amos 9:5Jeremiah 46:8Hosea 4:3It will happen in that day,” says the Lord GOD, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day. See also: Mark 15:33Matthew 27:45Jeremiah 15:9I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day. See also: Jeremiah 6:26Zechariah 12:10Jeremiah 48:37Behold, the days come,” says the Lord GOD, “that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the LORD’s words. See also: 1 Samuel 3:1Psalms 74:92 Chronicles 15:3They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run back and forth to seek the LORD’s word, and will not find it. See also: Romans 11:7-10Matthew 12:302 Timothy 3:6-7In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint for thirst. See also: Hosea 2:3Lamentations 1:18Lamentations 2:21Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, ‘As your god, Dan, lives,’ and, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives,’ they will fall, and never rise up again.” See also: Amos 5:51 Kings 12:28-29Deuteronomy 9:21
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)19 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 8:1
Ver. 1. Hook. Heb. "basket of summer fruit." Sept. "bird cage or net." H.
Israel was ripe for destruction. v. 2. C. vii. 8. C. Not only those who were near, (4 K. xv. 29.) but the rest also were taken, (4 K. xvii. 6.) as we pull with a hook the fruit when we cannot reach otherwise. W.
↑ 1Amos 8:3
Ver. 3. Temple, when God comes like a mighty warrior; or when the profane temples shall be pillaged. C. ix. 1. Heb. also, "the canticles of the temple or palace shall be changed into lamentations." Place. Heb. "a multitude of dead bodies shall be cast in every place. Keep silence." C.
↑ 3Amos 8:5
Ver. 5. Mouth: the first day was observed as a festival. Num. x. 10. H. At the expiration of the month usurers demanded their money. Hor. i. sat. 3. Aristoph.
Nub. ii. 1. Corn, to sell after the sabbatical year, when it was dearest.
Sabbath also denotes all "festivals." These misers think that there are too many. Sicle. Having a large measure to buy, and a small one to sell again.
Deut. xxv. 13. Prov. xx. 10.
↑ 5Amos 8:6
Ver. 6. Shoes, for almost nothing. Thus they forced the poor to serve, or to sell their effects.
↑ 6Amos 8:7
Ver. 7. Jacob, because the rich despise the poor. It may also mean, that he swore by heaven, or the temple, (Lev. xxvi. 19.) or that he would destroy the high places. C.
↑ 7Amos 8:8
Ver. 8. Altogether. Sept. "its total ruin shall rise as a river." Egypt. The whole land shall be visited with misery, as Egypt is by the Nile. H. The enemy shall retire with the booty. The Nile overflows in summer, and covers Egypt for six weeks, carrying much earth with its impetuous waves. Is. xviii. 2.
↑ 8Amos 8:9
Ver. 9. Light. Usher (A. 3213.) explains this of an eclipse, at Pentecost. The Fathers generally understand that which accompanied the death of Christ; but it only implies great desolation and terror. Jer. xv. 9. Joel iii. 11. S. Jer. &c. C.
In their greatest prosperity, calamities shall unexpectedly fall upon them. W.
↑ 9Amos 8:10
Ver. 10. Baldness, the hair being cut in mourning. Job i. 20. Son, most afflicted. Zac. xii. 10.
Jer. vi. 26. C.
↑ 10Amos 8:11
Ver. 11. Lord. During the siege provisions were wanting, but instruction still more so. W.
Israel had banished Amos. They would be left destitute. We find no prophet among the during the captivity, except Tobias. C. xiii. 3. We may apply this to the state of the Jews since the death of Christ. They have no guides. C.
They read incessantly, and do not understand (S. Jer.
Mercer.) the Bible, which non will ever penetrate who refuse to receive the key from the Church.
H.
↑ 11Amos 8:12
Ver. 12. Sea to sea: from west to south, or to the ocean; in whatever part of the world they may be. C.
↑ 12Amos 8:14
Ver. 14. Sin. Sept. "propitiation," which the pagans deemed requisite; (Hor. i.
ode 2.) or worship (H.) of Baal, (4 K. xvii. 16. C.) and all the other superstitions.
H. Way. Sept. "thy God," or religion, (Acts ix. 2.) or pilgrimage to Bersabee.
C. v. 5. Perhaps the true God was here adored; but it was in a manner which he condemned. C. In vain do those pretend to honour Him, who follow the traditions of unbelieving men. H.
↑ 14Amos 8:1
Ver. 1. Hook. Heb. "basket of summer fruit." Sept. "bird cage or net." H. ---
Israel was ripe for destruction. v. 2. C. vii. 8. C. --- Not only those who were near, (4 K. xv. 29.) but the rest also were taken, (4 K. xvii. 6.) as we pull with a hook the fruit when we cannot reach otherwise. W.
↑ 1Amos 8:3
Ver. 3. Temple, when God comes like a mighty warrior; or when the profane temples shall be pillaged. C. ix. 1. Heb. also, "the canticles of the temple or palace shall be changed into lamentations." --- Place. Heb. "a multitude of dead bodies shall be cast in every place. Keep silence." C.
↑ 3Amos 8:5
Ver. 5. Mouth: the first day was observed as a festival. Num. x. 10. H. --- At the expiration of the month usurers demanded their money. Hor. i. sat. 3. Aristoph.
Nub. ii. 1. --- Corn, to sell after the sabbatical year, when it was dearest.
Sabbath also denotes all "festivals." These misers think that there are too many. --- Sicle. Having a large measure to buy, and a small one to sell again.
Deut. xxv. 13. Prov. xx. 10.
↑ 5Amos 8:8
Ver. 8. Altogether. Sept. "its total ruin shall rise as a river." --- Egypt. The whole land shall be visited with misery, as Egypt is by the Nile. H. --- The enemy shall retire with the booty. The Nile overflows in summer, and covers Egypt for six weeks, carrying much earth with its impetuous waves. Is. xviii. 2.
↑ 8Amos 8:9
Ver. 9. Light. Usher (A. 3213.) explains this of an eclipse, at Pentecost. The Fathers generally understand that which accompanied the death of Christ; but it only implies great desolation and terror. Jer. xv. 9. Joel iii. 11. S. Jer. &c. C. ---
In their greatest prosperity, calamities shall unexpectedly fall upon them. W.
↑ 9Amos 8:10
Ver. 10. Baldness, the hair being cut in mourning. Job i. 20. --- Son, most afflicted. Zac. xii. 10.
Jer. vi. 26. C.
↑ 10Amos 8:11
Ver. 11. Lord. During the siege provisions were wanting, but instruction still more so. W. ---
Israel had banished Amos. They would be left destitute. We find no prophet among the during the captivity, except Tobias. C. xiii. 3. We may apply this to the state of the Jews since the death of Christ. They have no guides. C. ---
They read incessantly, and do not understand (S. Jer.
Mercer.) the Bible, which non will ever penetrate who refuse to receive the key from the Church.
H.
↑ 11Amos 8:14
Ver. 14. Sin. Sept. "propitiation," which the pagans deemed requisite; (Hor. i.
ode 2.) or worship (H.) of Baal, (4 K. xvii. 16. C.) and all the other superstitions.
H. --- Way. Sept. "thy God," or religion, (Acts ix. 2.) or pilgrimage to Bersabee.
C. v. 5. Perhaps the true God was here adored; but it was in a manner which he condemned. C. --- In vain do those pretend to honour Him, who follow the traditions of unbelieving men. H.
↑ 14License: 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