SEV Biblia, Chapter 5:16
¶ Por tanto, así dijo el SEÑOR, el Dios de los ejércitos, el Señor: En todas las plazas habrá llanto, y en todas las calles dirán: ¡Ay! ¡ay! Y al labrador llamarán a lloro, y a endecha a los que endechar supieren.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Amos 5:16
Verse 16. They shall call the husbandman to mourning] Because the crops have failed, and the ground has been tilled in vain. Sucks as are skillful of lamentation] See the note on Jeremiah ix. 17.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 16. Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus , etc.] The connection of these words is not with those that immediately precede, but with the whole context; seeing neither promises nor threats, exhortations, good advice, and intimations of grace and mercy, had no effect, at least upon the generality of the people, therefore the Lord declared as follows: wailing [shall be] in all streets ; in all the streets of the towns and cities of Israel, because of the slain and wounded in them: and they shall say in all the highways, alas! alas ! in the several roads throughout the country, as travellers pass on, and persons flee from the enemy; they shall lament the state of the kingdom, and cry Woe, woe, unto it; in what a miserable condition and circumstances it is in: and they shall call the husbandmen to mourning : who used to be better employed in tilling their land, ploughing, sowing, reaping, and gathering in the fruits of the earth; but now should have no work to do, all being destroyed, either by the hand of God, by blasting, and mildew, and vermin, or by the trampling and forage of the enemy; and so there would be just occasion for mourning: and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing ; that have got the art of mourning, and were expert in making moans, and using plaintive tones, and who assisted at funerals, and other doleful occasions; and who are made use of to this day in some countries, particularly in Ireland; and were the old Romans, by whom they were called “siticines”, “praefici”, and “praeficae” and these mourning men and women were also employed among the Jews at such times; (see Matthew 9:23); in ( Jeremiah 9:17), the mourning women are called “cunning women”; and so Lucian f128 calls: them sofistav twn yrhnwn , “sophists at lamentations”, artists: at them, well skilled therein, such as those are here directed to be called for.
Mr. Lively, our countryman, puts both clauses together, and renders them thus, “the husbandmen shall call to mourning and wailing such as are skilful of lamentation”; to assist them therein, because of the loss of the fruits of the earth; and such a version is confirmed by Jarchi, though he paraphrases it to a different sense; “companies of husbandmen shall meet those that plough in the fields with the voice of mourners that cry in the streets.”
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 7-17 - The same almighty power can, for repenting sinners, easily tur affliction and sorrow into prosperity and joy, and as easily turn the prosperity of daring sinners into utter darkness. Evil times will no bear plain dealing; that is, evil men will not. And these men were evi men indeed, when wise and good men thought it in vain even to speak to them. Those who will seek and love that which is good, may help to sav the land from ruin. It behoves us to plead God's spiritual promises, to beseech him to create in us a clean heart, and to renew a right spiri within us. The Lord is ever ready to be gracious to the souls that see him; and then piety and every duty will be attended to. But as for sinful Israel, God's judgments had often passed by them, now they shal pass through them.
Original Hebrew
לכן 3651 כה 3541 אמר 559 יהוה 3068 אלהי 430 צבאות 6635 אדני 136 בכל 3605 רחבות 7339 מספד 4553 ובכל 3605 חוצות 2351 יאמרו 559 הו 1930 הו 1930 וקראו 7121 אכר 406 אל 413 אבל 60 ומספד 4553 אל 413 יודעי 3045 נהי׃ 5092
