1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Amos 6:1 | Woe *to you that are wealthy in Sion, and to you that have confidence in the mountain of Samaria: ye great men, heads of the people, that go in with state into the house of Israel. Luke 6:24. | Wealthy. Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic, "despisers of Sion." Hebrew also, "who hate Sion." The prophecy wholly regards Israel. (Calmet) --- It is a great crime for the rich to neglect the poor; but still more so, when wealthy clergymen shew no compassion for the spiritual or corporal wants of their neighbours. (Worthington) --- State. Hebrew, "to whom the house of Israel comes" for judgment. |
| Amos 6:2 | Pass ye over to Chalane, and see, and go from thence into Emath the great: and go down into Geth, of the Philistines, and to all the best kingdoms of these: if their border be larger than your border. | Chalane. Ctesiphon (Calmet) was built on its ruins, Genesis 10:10. (Haydock) --- Why do you imitate these cities? or, has their greatness protected them? Phul probably took Chalane, and Jeroboam II the other cities, ver. 15., and 4 Kings 14:25. At that time there was no appearance of the kingdom being destroyed; yet Amos composes a funeral canticle, to shew the certainty of the event. |
| Amos 6:3 | You that are separated unto the evil day: and that approach to the throne of iniquity. | Separated. Hebrew, "remove the evil day," as if it would not overtake you, Ezechiel 12:22. Septuagint, "who are praying (Calmet) or coming (Grabe) to the evil day, approaching and touching false sabbaths." (Haydock) --- They pray to be delivered, while they continue (Calmet) their false worship. (Haydock) |
| Amos 6:4 | You that sleep upon beds of ivory, and are wanton on your couches: that eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the herd. | Ivory, with which the beds for eating were adorned, ver. 7. (Calmet) --- Wanton. Hebrew, "stretch themselves out upon their," etc. (Haydock) |
| Amos 6:5 | You that sing to the sound of the psaltery: they have thought themselves to have instruments of music like David. | David. They think they excel him in music; but he consecrated his talent to a better purpose. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "they deemed them stable, and not fugitive things." (Haydock) --- They have placed their chief good in such pleasures. (Theodoret) (Calmet) |
| Amos 6:6 | That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best ointments: and they are not concerned for the affliction of Joseph. | In bowels. Septuagint, "refined," (Haydock) or cleared of the dregs. --- Joseph, of their brethren, or they seem to have no share in the sufferings of mankind, Psalm 72:5. |
| Amos 6:7 | Wherefore, now they shall go captive at the head of them that go into captivity: and the faction of the luxurious ones shall be taken away. | Luxurious. Hebrew, "the feast of those who stretch themselves out, shall," etc. Septuagint, "the neighing shall be removed from Ephraim." His lusts shall be punished, Jeremias 5:8. --- Some translate [the] Hebrew, "the mourning of those who stretch themselves on their beds is at hand." Others, "their funeral feast is distant." None shall bewail their death. So ambiguous is the original. (Calmet) |
| Amos 6:8 | *The Lord God hath sworn by his own soul, saith the Lord, the God of hosts: I detest the pride of Jacob, and I hate his houses, and I will deliver up the city, with the inhabitants thereof. Jeremias 51:14. | Jacob. God loved the humility of the patriarch, and hated the pride of his posterity. (Worthington) |
| Amos 6:9 | And if there remain ten men in one house, they also shall die. | Die. Their numbers will not protect them from the plague. |
| Amos 6:10 | And a man's kinsman shall take him up, and shall burn him, that he may carry the bones out of the house: and he shall say to him that is in the inner rooms of the house: Is there yet any with thee? | Burn. After the captivity, it was more common to bury or to embalm the dead. (Calmet) |
| Amos 6:11 | And he shall answer: There is an end. And he shall say to him: Hold thy peace, and mention not the name of the Lord. | Lord. He has done it. Do not repine. (Theodoret; St. Cyril) --- Hebrew, "Be silent, and not to remember the," etc. He will offer comfort. (Calmet) --- Still, none will return to the Lord. (St. Jerome) |
| Amos 6:12 | For behold, the Lord hath commanded, and he will strike the greater house with breaches, and the lesser house with clefts. | Clefts. All shall perish, (Calmet) both Israel and Juda. (Chaldean) (Grotius) --- But he speaks only of the former. |
| Amos 6:13 | Can horses run upon the rocks, or can any one plough with buffles, for you have turned judgment into bitterness, and the fruit of justice into wormwood? | Buffles, which cannot be tamed. Hebrew, "with oxen." We must understand, on rocks. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "Shall they be silent when they are with females?" (Haydock) --- To turn the works of justice into sins, is no less unnatural than to plough with wild buffles. (Worthington) |
| Amos 6:14 | You that rejoice in a thing of naught: you that say: Have we not taken unto us horns by our own strength? | Naught: in your idols, which are nothing, (1 Corinthians 8:4.) or in your own strength, fortifications, or allies. --- Horns: glory and power. (Calmet) --- Parata tollo cornua. (Horace, epod. 6.) |
| Amos 6:15 | But behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel, saith the Lord, the God of hosts: and they shall destroy you from the entrance of Emath, even to the torrent of the desert. | Nation; the Assyrians. --- Desert, commonly called Bezor, (Calmet) between Damietta and Rhinocorura. (St. Jerome) --- The whole territory of Israel, reaching so far, (ver. 2.) shall be laid waste. (Calmet) |