Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
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Gill's Exposition
Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light?.... 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…
Barnes' Notes
Shall not the Day of the Lord be darkness? - He had described that Day as a day of inevitable destruction, such its man’s own conscience and guilty fears anticipate, and then appeals to their own…
Here is, I. A very terrible threatening of destruction approaching, Amo 5:16, Amo 5:17. Since they would not take the right course to obtain the favour of God, God would take an effectual course to…
Cambridge Bible
An emphatic repetition of the thought of Amo 5:5, after the illustration of Amo 5:5.
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