Amos 5:17

"Therefore the LORD, the God of Armies, the Lord, says: “Wailing will be in all the wide ways. They will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’ They will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing."

Key Reflection

This passage from Amos 5:17-18 depicts a profound spiritual crisis where the entire nation experiences grief and sorrow, reflecting both personal and corporate judgment. The widespread mourning symbolizes the severity of God's displeasure and the pervasive nature of societal sin.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

And in all vineyards shall be wailing -All joy should be turned into sorrow. Where aforetime was the vintage-shout in thankfulness for the ingathering, and anticipating gladness to come, there, in the source of their luxury, should be wailing, the forerunner of sorrow to come. it was a vintage, not of wine, but of woe. For I will pass through thee -In the destruction of the firstborn in Egypt, God did not “pass through” but “passed over” them, and they kept, in memory thereof the feast of the Passover. Now God would no longer “pass over” them and their sins.

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