a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been from of old, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.

Commentaries

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

A day of darkness and of gloominess: “A day full of miseries, for which reason he accumulates so many names of terrors. There was inner dark…

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century
Anglican
19th Century

The morning spread upon the mountains.— The Hebrew word here used for morning is derived from a verb, Shachar, w…

John Calvin

John Calvin

JohnCalvin

16th Century
Protestant
16th Century

This chapter contains serious exhortations, mixed with threatenings; but the Prophet threatens for the purpose of correcting the indifference of th…

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of
thick darkness
Alluding t…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

The priests were to alarm the people with the near approach of Divine judgments. It is the work of ministers to warn of the fatal consequences of s…

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