Amos 8:10

"It will happen in that day,” says the Lord GOD, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day."

Key Reflection

In Amos 8:10, the Lord's promise of darkening the sun at noon and darkening the earth even in a clear day symbolizes the profound spiritual darkness that will come over people who reject God’s word. This vivid imagery underscores the idea that spiritual enlightenment can be swiftly replaced by spiritual blindness when one turns away from divine guidance.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

I will turn your feasts into mourning -He recurs to the sentence which he had pronouncedAmos 8:3, before he described the avarice and oppression which brought it down. Hosea too had foretold, “I will cause all her mirth to cease, her feast-days, etc”Hosea 2:11. So Jeremiah describes, “the joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning”Lamentations 5:15. The Book of Tobit bears witness how these sayings of Amos lived in the hearts of the captive Israelites. The word of God seems oftentimes to fail, yet it finds those who are His. “I remembered,” he said, “that prophecy of Amos, your feasts shall be turned into mourning” (Tobit 2:6).

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