SEV Biblia, Chapter 4:2
El Señor DIOS juró por su Santidad: He aquí, vienen días sobre vosotros en que os llevará con anzuelos, y a vuestros descendientes en barquillos de pescador.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Amos 4:2
Verse 2. He will take you away with hooks] Two modes of fishing are here alluded to: 1. Angling with rod, line, and baited hook. 2. That with the gaff, eel-spear, harpoon, or such like; the first used in catching small fish, by which the common people may be here represented; the second, for catching large fish, such as leave the sea, and come up the rivers to deposit their spawn; or such as are caught in the sea, as sharks, whales, dolphins, and even the hippopotamus, to which the more powerful and opulent inhabitants may be likened. But as the words in the text are generally feminine, it has been supposed that the prophecy is against the proud, powerful, voluptuous women. I rather think that the prophet speaks catachrestically; and means men of effeminate manners and idle lives. They are not the bulls of Bashan, but the cows; having little of the manly character remaining. Some understand the latter word as meaning a sort of basket or wicker fish-nets.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 2. The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness , etc.] That is, by himself, holiness being his nature, and an essential attribute of his; this is done to ascertain the truth of what is after said, and that men may be assured of the certain performance of it. Some render it, “by his holy place”; and interpret it of heaven; so Aben Ezra and Kimchi; which is not likely; (see Matthew 5:34 James 5:12). The Targum is, “the Lord God hath sworn by his word in his holiness;” that, lo, the days shall come upon you ; speedily, swiftly, and at an unawares: that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fish hooks ; the enemy, the king of Assyria, or God by him, would take them out of their own land, as fish out of water, out of their own element, and carry them captive into a strange land, both them and their posterity; and which should be as easily done as fish are taken with the hook, even though they were as the kine of Bashan. The word for fish hooks signifies “thorns” f111 , and is by some so rendered; these perhaps being used in angling, before iron hooks were invented. The Targum is, “that people shall take you away on their shields, and your daughters in fishermen’s boats;” (see Jeremiah 16:16).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-5 - What is got by extortion is commonly used to provide for the flesh, an to fulfil the lusts thereof. What is got by oppression cannot be enjoyed with satisfaction. How miserable are those whose confidence i unscriptural observances only prove that they believe a lie! Let us se to it that our faith, hope, and worship, are warranted by the Divin word.
Original Hebrew
נשׁבע 7650 אדני 136 יהוה 3069 בקדשׁו 6944 כי 3588 הנה 2009 ימים 3117 באים 935 עליכם 5921 ונשׂא 5375 אתכם 853 בצנות 6793 ואחריתכן 319 בסירות 5518 דוגה׃ 1729
