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Amos 5

Amos 5:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Woe
howy (Hebrew #1945)
oh!
KJV usage: ah, alas, ho, O, woe.
Pronounce: hoh'ee
Origin: a prolonged form of 1930 (akin to 188)
unto you that desire
'avah (Hebrew #183)
to wish for
KJV usage: covet, (greatly) desire, be desirous, long, lust (after).
Pronounce: aw-vaw'
Origin: a primitive root
the day
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
of the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
! to what end
mah (Hebrew #4100)
or ma {maw}; or ma {mah}; also meh {meh}; a primitive particle; properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses
KJV usage: how (long, oft, (- soever)), (no-)thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.
Pronounce: maw
Origin: or mah {mah}
is it for you? the day
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
n of the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
is darkness
choshek (Hebrew #2822)
the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
KJV usage: dark(-ness), night, obscurity.
Pronounce: kho-shek'
Origin: from 2821
, and not light
'owr (Hebrew #216)
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
KJV usage: bright, clear, + day, light (-ning), morning, sun.
Pronounce: ore
Origin: from 215
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Joel 2:2• 2a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains; a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. (Joel 2:2)
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Zeph. 1:14‑15• 14The great day of Jehovah is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of Jehovah: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
 15That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, (Zeph. 1:14‑15)

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Darkness,
Day of the Lord,
Light,
Woe

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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desire.
Isa. 5:19• 19Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see [it]; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know [it]! (Isa. 5:19)
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Isa. 28:15‑22• 15For ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we at agreement: when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves.
 16Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I lay for foundation in Zion a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner [stone], a sure foundation: he that beliveth shall not make haste.
 17Judgment also will I appoint for a line, and righteousness for a plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.
 18And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, ye shall be trodden down by it.
 19As it passeth through, it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night; and it shall be terror only to understand the message.
 20For the bed is shorter than that [one] can stretch himself; and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself.
 21For Jehovah will rise up as [on] mount Perazim, he will be wroth as [in] the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his unwonted act.
 22Now therefore be ye not scorners, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord Jehovah of hosts, a consumption, and [one] determined upon the whole earth. (Isa. 28:15‑22)
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Jer. 17:15• 15{i}Behold, these say unto me, Where is the word of Jehovah? let it then come!{/i} (Jer. 17:15)
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Ezek. 12:22,27• 22Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?
 27Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are far off. (Ezek. 12:22,27)
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Mal. 3:1‑2• 1Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith Jehovah of hosts.
 2But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers’ soap: (Mal. 3:1‑2)
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2 Peter 3:4• 4and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for from the [day] that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue thus from beginning of creation. (2 Peter 3:4)
the day of the Lord is.
Isa. 5:30• 30And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. And if [one] look unto the land, behold darkness [and] distress, and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof. (Isa. 5:30)
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Isa. 9:19• 19Through the wrath of Jehovah of hosts is the land burnt up: the people also are as the fuel of fire; no man spareth his brother. (Isa. 9:19)
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Isa. 24:11‑12• 11[There is] a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
 12In the city remaineth desolation, and the gate is smitten,—a ruin. (Isa. 24:11‑12)
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Jer. 30:7• 7Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it. (Jer. 30:7)
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Joel 1:15• 15Alas for the day! for the day of Jehovah is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. (Joel 1:15)
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Joel 2:1‑2,10,31• 1Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of Jehovah cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
 2a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains; a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
 10The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
 31The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of Jehovah come. (Joel 2:1‑2,10,31)
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Zeph. 1:14‑15• 14The great day of Jehovah is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of Jehovah: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
 15That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, (Zeph. 1:14‑15)
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Mal. 4:1• 1For, behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. (Mal. 4:1)
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2 Peter 3:10• 10But the day of [the] Lord will come as a thief; in which the heavens shall pass away with rushing noise, and elements, with fervent heat, shall be dissolved, and [the] earth and the works that are therein shall be burnt up. (2 Peter 3:10)
• This is indeed presumptuous sin, not to believe the gospel, but so to brave the day of the Lord. It is not so uncommon. (“Amos 5” by W. Kelly)
• They talked piety, but there was no substance, no reality, in them; and therefore the prophet can but warn what that day must be to such. (“Amos 5” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah! To what end is the day of Jehovah for you? It shall be darkness and not light:

W. Kelly Translation

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Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah! to what end is it for you? the day of Jehovah is darkness, and not light.