Teks -- Amos 3:11 (NET)

3:11 Therefore,” says the sovereign Lord, “an enemy will encircle the land. He will take away your power; your fortresses will be looted.”

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Wesley: Amo 3:11 - Therefore

Because of all the violence and rapine with other crying sins.

Wesley: Amo 3:11 - An adversary

The Assyrian.

Wesley: Amo 3:11 - Round about

Shall beset the whole land as one besieged city.

JFB: Amo 3:11

Translate, "An adversary (the abruptness produces a startling effect)! and that too, from every side of the land." So in the fulfilment, 2Ki 17:5 : "The king of Assyria (Shalmaneser) came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years."

JFB: Amo 3:11 - bring down thy strength from thee

That is, bring thee down from thy strength (the strength on which thou didst boast thyself): all thy resources (Pro 10:15).

JFB: Amo 3:11 - palaces shall be spoiled

A just retribution in kind (Amo 3:10). The palaces in which spoils of robbery were stored up, "shall be spoiled."

Clarke: Amo 3:11 - An adversary, round about the land

An adversary, round about the land - Ye shall not be able to escape, wherever ye turn, ye shall meet a foe.

Calvin: Amo 3:11 - NO PHRASE

The Prophet here announces the punishment God would inflict on the Israelites. An enemy, he says, and indeed one around you, etc. Some think צר , tsar, to be a verb in the imperative mood; but this cannot be maintained. But Amos, here declares that an enemy was near the Israelites, who would besiege them on every side. The ungodly are ever wont to seek escapes, and if they see the smallest hole, they think that they can escape. Strange is the presumption of men with regard to God: when they see themselves hemmed in, they are really frightened, yea, they become wholly disheartened; but yet they seek subterfuges on the right hand and on the left, and never submit to God except when constrained. This is the reason why the Prophet now says, that an enemy was near, and indeed around them; as though he said, “You have no reason to think that there is any way of escape open to you; for God has hemmed you in on every side; there is therefore a siege which so confines you, that you in vain hope to escape.” An enemy, he says, is indeed around — around the whole land, who will take away from thee thy strength. Here the Prophet removes from the Israelites their vain confidence; for they could not think of God’s vengeance, while looking on their own power. They indeed thought that they had sufficient protection in their own large number, riches, and arms, as men are wont to set up against God what proceeds from himself, as though creatures could do anything against him, and as though God could not take away, when he pleases, what he has given: and yet such is the blindness of men. Hence the Prophet says, that all the wealth and all the strength in which the Israelites excelled would be useless, inasmuch as an enemy, he says, armed by God, shall take from thee thy strength; and thy palaces shall be plundered.

TSK: Amo 3:11 - and thy

An, Amo 6:14; 2Ki 15:19, 2Ki 15:29, 2Ki 17:3-6, 2Ki 18:9-11; Isa 7:17-25, Isa 8:7, Isa 8:8, Isa 10:5, Isa 10:6, Isa 10:9-11; Hos 11:5, Hos 11:6

and thy : Amo 3:10,Amo 3:15, Amo 2:5, Amo 6:8; 2Ch 36:19

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Poole: Amo 3:11 - Therefore // An adversary // He shall bring down thy strength from thee // Thy palaces shall be spoiled

Therefore because of all the violence and rapine, with other crying sins, multiplied against God in the midst of them.

An adversary the Assyrian with united forces, shall be even round about the land, on all sides shall beset thee; the whole land shall be but as one besieged city, out of which none, or so few as next to none, shall escape.

He shall bring down thy strength from thee lay low all thy fortresses, break all thy power, kill thy valiant men, destroy thy armies, and by force take thy strong holds.

Thy palaces shall be spoiled where thou laidst up thy spoils gotten by violence and oppression, there thy enemy shall find them, and take them away as lawful plunder; and when thy riches are carried out, they shall burn the palaces themselves too.

Haydock: Amo 3:11 - About

About, As oxen tread out corn, going round a tree. (Calmet) ---

Septuagint, "Tyre even all round, thy land shall be a desert." Tsar means "Tyre and tribulation," according to St. Jerome's master. (Haydock)

Gill: Amo 3:11 - Therefore thus saith the Lord God // an adversary there shall be even round about the land // and he shall bring down thy strength from thee // and thy palaces shall be spoiled

Therefore thus saith the Lord God,.... Because of these tumults and riots, oppression and injustice, violence and robbery:

an adversary there shall be even round about the land: not Tyre, as Theodoret renders the word; but the king of Assyria, who invaded the land of Israel in the days of Hoshea, took Samaria, and carried Israel captive, and placed them in foreign countries, 2Ki 17:6;

and he shall bring down thy strength from thee; take away their riches, demolish their fortresses, and strip them of everything in which they put their confidence:

and thy palaces shall be spoiled; plundered of the treasures laid up in them, and pulled down to the ground; and a just retaliation this for their being the repositories of ill gotten substance and wealth.