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A Day of Utter Darkness
Commentators stress that the "darkness" of the Day of the Lord is not merely a bad time. It is an absolute and terrifying gloom, with no glimmer of hope or relief. One scholar likens it to the "darkness that might be felt" in Egypt, signifying total confusion, terror, and inescapable judgment for impenitent sinners.
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Albert Barnes
On Amos 5:20
18th Century
Theologian
Shall not the Day of the Lord be darkness? - He had described that Day as a day of inevitable destruction, such as man’s own consci…
Charles Ellicott
On Amos 5:20
19th Century
Bishop
Darkness: In the form of an interrogative, the condemnation contained in Amos 5:18 is emphatically reasserted. The term rendered “…
Charles Spurgeon
On Amos 5:20–22
19th Century
Preacher
See how God speaks about public worship and formal sacrifices when the heart is not right with him. When the moral conduct of the offerer is wrong,…
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John Gill
On Amos 5:20
17th Century
Pastor
[Shall] not the day of the Lord [be] darkness, and not light ? &c.] The design of such a question is strongly to affirm, …
Matthew Henry
On Amos 5:18–27
17th Century
Minister
Woe to those who desire the day of the Lord's judgments, who wish for times of war and confusion���like some who long for changes, hoping to rise o…