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Shall the day of Yahweh not be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
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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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Amos
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
Darkness: In the form of an interrogative, the condemnation contained in Amos 5:18 is emphatically reasserted. The term rendered “…
Baptist
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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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
[Shall] not the day of the Lord [be] darkness, and not light ? &c.] The design of such a question is strongly to affirm, …
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 on …
