the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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Amos 6:7
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You people are stretched out on your couches now, but your good times will end. You will be taken away as prisoners to a foreign country, and you will be some of the first people taken.
Therefore, they will now go into exile at the head of the exiles, And the revelry of those who lounge around will come to an end.
so you will be some of the first ones taken as slaves. Your feasting and lying around will come to an end.
Therefore they will now be the first to go into exile, and the religious banquets where they sprawl on couches will end.
Therefore they shall now go captive with the first that go captive; and the revelry of those that stretched themselves shall pass away.
Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
Therefore, they will now go into exile with the first of the captives, And the cultic revelry and banqueting of those who lounge around [on their luxurious couches] will pass away.
Therefore they shall now be the first of those who go into exile, and the revelry of those who stretch themselves out shall pass away."
Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive; And the feasting and lounging will end.
Wherfor now thei schulen passe in the heed of men passynge ouer, and the doyng of men doynge letcherie schal be don awei.
Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the revelry of them that stretched themselves shall pass away.
Therefore, you will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and your feasting and lounging will come to an end.
So you will be the first to be dragged off as captives; your good times will end.
Therefore shall they now go captive with the first that go captive; and the revelry of them that stretched themselves shall pass away.
So now they will go away prisoners with the first of those who are made prisoners, and the loud cry of those who were stretched out will come to an end.
Therefore now they will be the first to go into exile with those being exiled, and the revelry of those who lounged, sprawling, will pass away.
Therefore shall they now go captive, with the first that go captive, and the revelry of them that stretched themselves shall pass away.
Therefore now shall they go captive at the head of them that go captive, and the revelry of them that stretched themselves shall pass away.
Therefore now shall they goe captiue, with the first that goe captiue, and the banquet of them that stretched themselues, shalbe remoued.
Therefore, you will be the first to be led away as captives. Suddenly, all your parties will end.
You will be among the first to be taken away as prisoners to a strange land, and your happy times of rest will pass away.
Therefore they shall now be the first to go into exile, and the revelry of the loungers shall pass away.
Therefore nowe shal they go captiue with the first that go captiue, and the sorow of them that stretched themselues, is at hand.
Therefore now they shall be carried captive with the first who go captive, and the joy shall be taken away from their rulers.
Wherefore now they shall go captive at the head of them that go into captivity: and the faction of the luxurious ones shall be taken away.
Therefore they shall now be the first of those to go into exile, and the revelry of those who stretch themselves shall pass away."
Therfore nowe shall they go captiue with the first that go captiue, and the sorowe of them that stretched them selues is at hande.
Therefore now shall they depart into captivity from the dominion of princes, and the neighing of horses shall be cut off from Ephraim.
So you will be the first to go into exile. Your feasts and banquets will come to an end.
Therefore, they will now go into exileas the first of the captives,and the feasting of those who sprawl outwill come to an end.
Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive; And the feasting and lounging will end.
Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
Therefore, they shall now go into exile at the head of the exiles and the feast of lounging shall pass away.
So now they shall go into exile with the first of the exiles, and the feast of those who stretch themselves shall cease.
Therefore now they remove at the head of the captives, And turned aside is the mourning-feast of stretched-out ones.
Therfore now shall ye be the first of them, that shal be led awaye captyue, and the lusty chere of the wylfull shall come to an ende.
But here's what's really coming: a forced march into exile. They'll leave the country whining, a rag-tag bunch of good-for-nothings.
Therefore they shall now go captive as the first of the captives, And those who recline at banquets shall be removed.
Therefore, they will now go into exile at the head of the exiles, And the sprawlers' banqueting will pass away.
Therefore, they will now go into exile among the first of the exiles,And the sprawlers' banqueting will turn aside.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
shall they: Amos 5:5, Amos 5:27, Amos 7:11, Deuteronomy 28:41, Luke 21:24
and the: 1 Kings 20:16-20, Esther 5:8, Esther 5:12-14, Esther 7:1, Esther 7:2, Esther 7:8-10, Isaiah 21:4, Daniel 5:4-6, Nahum 1:10
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 18:10 - they took it Isaiah 17:3 - fortress Hosea 9:1 - Rejoice James 5:1 - weep
Cross-References
And it came to pass when men had begun to multiply on the face of the ground and daughters had been born to them,
that the sons of God saw the daughters of men! that they were, fair, - so they took to themselves wives of whomsoever they chose,
And Yahweh said - My spirit shall not rule in man to times age - abiding, for that, he also, is flesh, - Yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
The giants, were in the each in these days, and also, after that, when the sons of God began to go in unto the daughters of men, and sons were born to them, the same, were the heroes that were from age-past times the men of renown.
Of the bird after its kind and of the beast after its kind, and of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of each, shall come in unto thee. for keeping alive.
And Noah did so , - according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
For, the lawless, shall perish, and, the foes of Yahweh, be like the glory of the meadows, They have vanished! In smoke, have they vanished!
The reverence of Yahweh, addeth days, but, the years of the lawless, shall be shortened.
Everything, hath Yahweh made for its own purpose, yea, even the lawless one, for the day of calamity.
For this cause, shall the land mourn, and everyone who dwelleth therein shall languish, with the wild beast of the field and with the bird of the heavens, - moreover also, the fishes of the sea, shall be withdrawn.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive,.... That is, these men, who were the first and chief in the nation, who would not believe the day of Israel's captivity would ever come; or, however, had very distant apprehensions of it; but indulged and gratified their several senses of tasting, hearing, smelling, in a carnal way, and had no sympathy with and compassion upon their afflicted brethren; these should be the first the enemy should lay hold upon, and carry captive; as we find the royal family, the princes and nobles, the courtiers and chief tradesmen, were the first that were carried captive of the Jews, in Jeconiah's captivity, 2 Kings 24:12;
and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed; that stretched themselves upon couches, Amos 6:4; they shall have no more banquets or feasting bouts to attend to, by stretching themselves out, and lying upon couches at their ease; these shall be taken from them; and be glad of bread and water in an enemy's country, without a couch to recline upon. Some understand this of a funeral banquet, as in
Jeremiah 16:5; and so the sense is, that when they die, they shall not have that honour done to their memory, as to have a funeral feast provided for those that attend their burial, as was customary. Kimchi interprets it, "the mourning [of such] shall draw nigh" b; and according to his father, Joseph Kimchi, the word in the Arabic language signifies to lift up the voice, either in mourning or joy; and so may signify, that as all feasts, and the joy that attends them, should be removed, which is the sense of the Targum, instead of that, mourning should take place; or they should be deprived of the common ceremony at death of mourning men and women.
b סר "ad veniet", Munster; "appropinquabit", Mercerus; "veniet", Calvin. So R. Sol. Urbin. Ohel Moed, fol. 84. 2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Therefore now (that is, shortly) shall they go captive with the first (at the head) of those who go captive - They had sought eminence; they should have it. Jerome: “Ye who are first in riches, shall, the first, endure the yoke of captivity, as it is in Ezekiel, ‘begin from My sanctuary’ Ezekiel 9:6, that is, from the destruction of the Temple which is holy. For ‘mighty men shall be mightily tormented’ (Wisdom Ezekiel 6:6); and, ‘to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more’ Luke 12:48.”
And the banquet - Probably, “the screech.” The root, רדסח radsach, whose consonants contain most of those of our screech, signifies the loud sharp cry, which the mind cannot control, either in revelry or distress. Here it is probably, the drunken scream, or reckless cry of revelry, whose senseless shrillness is more piercing, in its way, than the scream of distress, of which Jeremiah Jeremiah 16:5 uses it. For it is the scream of the death of the soul. Amos seems to have purposely joined together similar harsh sibilants or guttural sounds in order the more to express the harshness of that scream of luxurious self-indulgence. סרוּחים מרזח mı̂rezach seruchı̂ym, the screech of the outstretched.” Of this he says, “it shall depart,” and forever. “In that very day all his thoughts perish” Psalms 146:4. It shall “depart;” but by what should it be replaced to those to whom it was their god and their all? On earth, by siege, pestilence, death or captivity: after death, by hell to the unrepentant.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Amos 6:7. With the first that go captive — The house of Israel shall be carried into captivity before the house of Judah.
