SEV Biblia, Chapter 5:3
Porque así dijo el Señor DIOS: La ciudad que sacaba mil, quedará con ciento; y la que sacaba ciento, quedará con diez, en la casa de Israel.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Amos 5:3
Verse 3. The city that went out by a thousand] The city that could easily have furnished, on any emergency, a thousand fighting men, can now produce scarcely one hundred-one in ten of the former number; and now of the hundred scarcely ten remain: so reduced was Israel when Shalmaneser besieged and took Samaria, and carried the residue into captivity.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 3. For thus saith the Lord God , etc.] This is a reason why there were none to raise her up: since the city that went out [by] a thousand shall leave an hundred ; that is, the city in which there were a thousand constantly going in and out; or which sent, caused to go out, or furnished, a thousand men upon occasion for war, had only a hundred persons left in it; or there remained but a hundred of the thousand they sent out, the rest being destroyed by one means or another: and that which went forth [by] an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel ; where there were a hundred persons going out and coming in continually; or which sent out a hundred men to the army to fight their battles had now only ten remaining; to such a small number were they reduced all over the land, so that there were none, or not a number sufficient to raise up Israel to its former state and glory.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-6 - The convincing, awakening word must be heard and heeded, as well a words of comfort and peace; for whether we hear or forbear, the word of God shall take effect. The Lord still proclaims mercy to men, but the often expect deliverance from such self-invented forms as make their condemnation sure. While they refuse to come to Christ and to see mercy in and by him, that they may live, the fire of Divine wrat breaks forth upon them. Men may make an idol of the world, but wil find it cannot protect.
Original Hebrew
כי 3588 כה 3541 אמר 559 אדני 136 יהוה 3069 העיר 5892 היצאת 3318 אלף 505 תשׁאיר 7604 מאה 3967 והיוצאת 3318 מאה 3967 תשׁאיר 7604 עשׂרה 6235 לבית 1004 ישׂראל׃ 3478
