And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
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Gill's Exposition
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God,.... When this deluge and desolation of the land shall be, now spoken of:
that I will cause the sun to go down at noon: or to he so dark as…
Barnes' Notes
I will cause the sun to go down - Darkness is heaviest and blackest in contrast with the brightest light; sorrow is saddest, when it comes upon fearless joy. God commonly, in His mercy, sends heralds…
Adam Clarke
I will cause the sun to go down at noon - This may either refer to that darkness which often precedes and accompanies earthquakes, or to an eclipse. Abp. Usher has shown that about eleven years after…
God is here contending with proud oppressors, and showing them,
I. The heinousness of the sin they were guilty of; in short, they had the character of the unjust judge (Luk 18:2) that neither feared…
Cambridge Bible
Celestial wonders, which Amos pictures as accompanying the day of retribution (comp. Isa 13:10; Joe 2:10, Joel 4:15). It is possible that the imagery is borrowed from an eclipse of the sun; and one…
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