Āmósīshū 4:2

2 Zhǔ Yēhéhuá zhǐ zhe zìjǐ de shèngjié qǐshì shuō , rìzi kuaì dào , rén bì yòng gōuzǐ jiāng nǐmen gōu qù , yòng yú gōu jiāng nǐmen yú shèng de gōu qù .

Āmósīshū 4:2 Meaning and Commentary

Amos 4:2

The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness
That is, by himself, holiness being his nature, and an essential attribute of his; this is done to ascertain the truth of what is after said, and that men may be assured of the certain performance of it. Some render it, "by his holy place"; and interpret it of heaven; so Aben Ezra and Kimchi; which is not likely; see ( Matthew 5:34 ) ( James 5:12 ) . The Targum is,

``the Lord God hath sworn by his word in his holiness;''

that, lo, the days shall come upon you;
speedily, swiftly, and at an unawares: that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fish
hooks;
the enemy, the king of Assyria, or God by him, would take them out of their own land, as fish out of water, out of their own element, and carry them captive into a strange land, both them and their posterity; and which should be as easily done as fish are taken with the hook, even though they were as the kine of Bashan. The word for fish hooks signifies "thorns" ^F16, and is by some so rendered; these perhaps being used in angling, before iron hooks were invented. The Targum is,

``that people shall take you away on their shields, and your daughters in fishermen's ^F17 boats;''

see ( Jeremiah 16:16 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 (twryob) "spinis", Mercerus, Liveleus, Drusius, Grotius.
F17 So it is interpreted by R. Sol Urbin Ohel Moed, fol. 65. 2. likewise Elias says the word signifies a small ship, or a boat that is in a large ship, Tishbi, p. 59. So Vatablus interprets it, "scaphas piscatorias, [sive] cymbas"; and some in Munster.

Āmósīshū 4:2 In-Context

1 Nǐmen zhù Sāmǎlìyà shān rú Bāshān mǔ niú de a , dāng tīng wǒde huà , nǐmen qīfu pín Hán de , yē suì qióngfá de , duì jiā zhǔ shuō , ná jiǔ lái , wǒmen hē ba .

2 Zhǔ Yēhéhuá zhǐ zhe zìjǐ de shèngjié qǐshì shuō , rìzi kuaì dào , rén bì yòng gōuzǐ jiāng nǐmen gōu qù , yòng yú gōu jiāng nǐmen yú shèng de gōu qù .

3 Nǐmen gèrén bì cóng pò kǒu zhí wǎng qián xíng , tóu rù hǎ mén . zhè shì Yēhéhuá shuō de .

4 Yǐsèliè rén nǎ , rèn nǐmen wǎng Bótèlì qù fàn zuì , dào Jíjiǎ jiā zēng zuì guō . mĕi rì zǎochen xiànshang nǐmen de jìwù , mĕi sān rì fèng shang nǐmen de shí fēn ...zhīyī .

5 Rèn nǐmen xiàn yǒu jiào de gǎnxiè jì , bǎ gānxīn jì xuānchuán bàogào gĕi zhòngrén , yīnwei shì nǐmen suǒ xǐaì de . zhè shì zhǔ Yēhéhuá shuō de .