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Amos 5:20

Listen to Amos 5:20
20 Le jour de l'Éternel, n'est-il pas ténèbres, et non lumière? obscurité, et non clarté?

Amos 5:20 Meaning and Commentary

Amos 5:20

[Shall] not the day of the Lord [be] darkness, and not light?
&c.] The design of such a question is strongly to affirm, that, in this day of the Lord spoken of, there should be nothing but misery and distress, and no prosperity and happiness, at least to the wicked Israelites, or the unbelieving Jews: even very dark, and no brightness in it?
signifying that there should be no deliverance, nor the least glimmering view or hope of it; that the calamity should be so very great, and the destruction so entire, that there should be no mixture of mercy, nor the least appearance of relief.

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Amos 5:20 In-Context

18 Malheur à ceux qui désirent le jour de l'Éternel! A quoi vous servira le jour de l'Éternel? Il sera ténèbres, et non lumière;
19 Comme un homme, qui fuit devant un lion, et que rencontre un ours; qui entre dans la maison, appuie sa main sur le mur, et un serpent le mord.
20 Le jour de l'Éternel, n'est-il pas ténèbres, et non lumière? obscurité, et non clarté?
21 Je hais, je méprise vos fêtes; je ne prends point plaisir à vos assemblées solennelles.
22 Si vous me présentez des holocaustes, je n'agréerai point vos offrandes, je ne regarderai point les bêtes grasses de vos sacrifices de prospérités.
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.

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