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Amós 5
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¡Escucha, pueblo de Israel! Oye este canto fúnebre que entono:
nunca volverá a levantarse!
Yace abandonada en el suelo
y no hay quien la levante».
Soberano dice:
«Cuando una ciudad mande a mil hombres a la guerra,
solo volverán cien.
Cuando un pueblo envíe a cien,
solo diez regresarán vivos».
no vayan a los altares en Gilgal ni en Beerseba.
Pues el pueblo de Gilgal será arrastrado al destierro
y el pueblo de Betel será reducido a nada».
y vivan!
De lo contrario, él pasará por Israel
como un fuego
y los devorará completamente.
Sus dioses en Betel
no serán capaces de apagar las llamas.
Tratan al justo como basura.
quien creó las estrellas,
las Pléyades y el Orión.
Él transforma la oscuridad en luz
y el día en noche.
Él levanta agua de los océanos
y la vierte como lluvia sobre la tierra.
¡El Señor
es su nombre!
y aplasta todas sus defensas.
¡Cómo desprecian a los que dicen la verdad!
robándoles el grano con impuestos y rentas injustas.
Por lo tanto, aunque construyan hermosas casas de piedra,
nunca vivirán en ellas.
Aunque planten viñedos exuberantes,
nunca beberán su vino.
y la profundidad de sus rebeliones.
Ustedes oprimen a los buenos al aceptar sobornos
y privan al pobre de la justicia en los tribunales.
porque es un tiempo malo.
para que vivan!
Entonces el Señor
Dios de los Ejércitos Celestiales será su ayudador,
así como ustedes han dicho.
conviertan sus tribunales en verdaderas cortes de justicia.
Quizás el Señor
Dios de los Ejércitos Celestiales
todavía tenga compasión del remanente de su pueblo.
Dios de los Ejércitos Celestiales:
«Habrá llanto en todas las plazas públicas
y lamentos en cada calle.
Llamen a los campesinos para que lloren con ustedes
y traigan a los que les pagan por lamentar.
Qué aflicción les espera a ustedes que dicen:
«¡Si tan solo hoy fuera el día del Señor
!».
No tienen la menor idea de lo que desean.
Ese día no traerá luz sino oscuridad.
solo para encontrarse con un oso.
Y, al escapar del oso, apoya su mano contra una pared en su casa
y lo muerde una serpiente.
la hipocresía de sus festivales religiosos y asambleas solemnes.
Ni siquiera prestaré atención a sus ofrendas selectas de paz.
No escucharé la música de sus arpas.
y un río inagotable de rectitud.
dice el Señor
, cuyo nombre es el Dios de los Ejércitos Celestiales.
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Amós 5 Commentary
Chapter 5
Israel is called to seek the Lord. (1-6) Earnest exhortations to repentance. (7-17) Threatenings respecting idolatries. (18-27)
Verses 1-6 The convincing, awakening word must be heard and heeded, as well as words of comfort and peace; for whether we hear or forbear, the word of God shall take effect. The Lord still proclaims mercy to men, but they often expect deliverance from such self-invented forms as make their condemnation sure. While they refuse to come to Christ and to seek mercy in and by him, that they may live, the fire of Divine wrath breaks forth upon them. Men may make an idol of the world, but will find it cannot protect.
Verses 7-17 The same almighty power can, for repenting sinners, easily turn affliction and sorrow into prosperity and joy, and as easily turn the prosperity of daring sinners into utter darkness. Evil times will not bear plain dealing; that is, evil men will not. And these men were evil men indeed, when wise and good men thought it in vain even to speak to them. Those who will seek and love that which is good, may help to save the land from ruin. It behoves us to plead God's spiritual promises, to beseech him to create in us a clean heart, and to renew a right spirit within us. The Lord is ever ready to be gracious to the souls that seek him; and then piety and every duty will be attended to. But as for sinful Israel, God's judgments had often passed by them, now they shall pass through them.
Verses 18-27 Woe unto those that desire the day of the Lord's judgments, that wish for times of war and confusion; as some who long for changes, hoping to rise upon the ruins of their country! but this should be so great a desolation, that nobody could gain by it. The day of the Lord will be a dark, dismal, gloomy day to all impenitent sinners. When God makes a day dark, all the world cannot make it light. Those who are not reformed by the judgments of God, will be pursued by them; if they escape one, another stands ready to seize them. A pretence of piety is double iniquity, and so it will be found. The people of Israel copied the crimes of their forefathers. The law of worshipping the Lord our God, is, Him only we must serve. Professors thrive so little, because they have little or no communion with God in their duties. They were led captive by Satan into idolatry, therefore God caused them to go into captivity among idolaters.
Chapter Summary
INTRODUCTION TO AMOS 5
In this chapter the prophet exhorts Israel to hear his lamentation over them for their impending ruin, Am 5:1-3; nevertheless to seek the Lord, and all that is good; to forsake their idols, and repent of their sins, in hopes of finding mercy, and living comfortably; or otherwise they must expect the wrath of God for their iniquities, especially their oppression of the poor, Am 5:4-15; otherwise it would be a time of weeping and wailing, of darkness and distress, however they might harden or flatter themselves, or make a jest of it, Am 5:16-20; for all their sacrifices and ceremonial worship would signify nothing, so long as they continued their idolatry with them Am 5:21-26; and therefore should surely go into captivity, Am 5:27.