Amós 4:3

La Biblia Reina-Valera

Y saldrán por los portillos la una en pos de la otra, y seréis echadas del palacio, dice Jehová.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Saldréis por las brechas, una tras otra, y seréis expulsadas al Harmón —declara el Señor .

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Y saldr�is por las brechas la una en pos de la otra, y ser�is echadas del palacio, dice Jehov�.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Y saldr�n por los portillos la una en pos de la otra, y ser�is echadas del palacio, dice el SE�OR.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ye shall go: 2 Kings 25:4, Ezekiel 12:5, Ezekiel 12:12

them into the palace: or, away the things of the palace, 2 Kings 7:7, 2 Kings 7:8, 2 Kings 7:15, Isaiah 2:20, Isaiah 31:7, Zephaniah 1:18, Matthew 16:26

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 49:5 - ye shall Amos 4:12 - thus

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And ye shall go out at the breaches,.... Not at the gates of the city, as they had used to do at pleasure; but at the breaches of the walls of it, made by the enemy, in order to make their escape, if possible; they who had broke down the fences of law and justice, and injured the poor and needy, shall now have the walls of their city broken down and they themselves exposed to the most imminent danger, and glad to get out of them to save their lives:

every [cow] at that [which is] before her; every woman, as Jarchi and Kimchi; or every great person, compared to the kine of Bashan, shall make up as fast as he can to the breach before him, to get out; shall follow one another as quick as they can, and clamber on one another's backs, as such cattle do, to get out first; which shows the hurry and confusion they should be in, upon the taking of their city Samaria:

and ye shall cast [them] into the palace, saith the Lord; either their children, or their substance, which they shall cast into the royal palace, or fort, or citadel, for safety. Some render it, "ye shall cast yourselves"; so Abarbinel; that is, such as could not get out at the breaches should betake themselves to the palace or fort for their security. The Targum of the whole is,

"and they shall break down the wall upon you, and bring you out, gathered everyone before him, and carry you beyond the mountains of Armenia.''

And so some others, taking it to be the name of a place, render it, "ye shall be cast into Armon", or Mona; which Bochart r suspects to be the same with Minni, mentioned with Ararat, a mountain in Armenia, Jeremiah 51:27.

r Geograph. Sacr. l. 1. c. 3. col. 20.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ye shall go out through the breaches - Samaria, the place of their ease and confidence, being broken through, they should go forth one by one, “each straight before her,” looking neither to the right nor to the left, as a herd of cows go one after the other through a gap in a fence. Help and hope have vanished, and they hurry pell-mell after one another, reckless and desperate, as the animals whose life of sense they had chosen.

And ye shall cast them into the palace - Or, better, (since nothing has been named which they could cast) “cast yourselves.” The word may describe the headlong motion of the animal, and the desperate gestures of the hopeless. They should cast themselves from palace to palace, from the palace of their luxuries to the palace of their enemies, from a self-chosen life of sensuousness to he concubines in the harem. If the rulers are still included, it was reserved for the rich and noble to become eunuchs in the palace of their Assyrian or Babylonian conquerors, as Isaiah foretold to Hezekiah Isaiah 39:7. It is another instance of that great law of God, “wherewithal a man sinneth, by the same shall he be tormented” (Wisdom Isaiah 11:16). They had lived in luxury and wantonness; in luxury and wantonness they should live, but amid the jealousies of an Eastern harem, and at the caprice of their sensual conquerors.

The word however rendered, “to the palace,” occurring only here, is obscure. The other most probable conjecture is, that it is a name of a country, “the mountains of Monah,” that is, perhaps Armenia. This would describe accurately enough the country to which they were to be carried; “beyond Damascus; the cities of the Medes.” The main sense is the same. They should be cast forth from the scene of their pleasures and oppression, to be themselves oppressed. The whole image is one, which an inspired prophet alone could use. The reproof was not from man, but from God, unveiling their sins to them in their true hideousness. Man thinks nothing of being more degraded than the brutes, so that he can hide from himself, that he is so.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Amos 4:3. And ye shall go out at the breaches — Probably the metaphor is here kept up. They shall be caught by the hooks, or by the nets; and though they may make breaches in the latter by their flouncing when caught, they shall be taken out at these very breaches; and cast, not in the palace, but into a reservoir, to be kept awhile, and afterwards be taken out to be destroyed. Samaria itself is the net; your adversaries shall besiege it, and make breaches in its walls. At those breaches ye shall endeavour to make your escape, but ye shall be caught and led into captivity, where most of you shall be destroyed. See Houbigant on this passage.