SEV Biblia, Chapter 5:8
miren al que hace el Arcturo y el Orión, y las tinieblas vuelve en mañana, y hace oscurecer el día en noche; el que llama a las aguas del mar, y las derrama sobre la faz de la tierra; el SEÑOR es su nombre;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Amos 5:8
Verse 8. That maketh the seven stars and Orion] Or, Hyades and Arcturus, Kimah and Kesil. See my notes on Job ix. 9; xxxviii. 32, where the subject of this verse is largely considered. Turneth the shadow of death into the morning] Who makes day and night, light and darkness.
Calleth for the waters of the sea] Raising them up by evaporation, and collecting them into clouds.
And poureth them out] Causing them to drop down in showers upon the face of the earth. Who has done this? JEHOVAH is his name.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 8. [Seek him] that maketh the seven stars , etc.] Which some connect with the preceding words, without a supplement, “they leave righteousness on the ground, who maketh the seven stars”; understanding it of Christ, the Lord our righteousness, who is made unto us righteousness, whom the Jews rejected and despised, though the Maker of the heavens and the constellations in them. Some continue, and supply the words thus, and remember not him “that maketh the seven stars”, as Kimchi; or forget him, as Japhet in Aben Ezra. The Targum is, “they cease to fear him that maketh, etc.” they have no regard unto him, no awe and reverence of him, or they would not act so unjustly as they do. There is but one word for the “seven stars” in the original text, which signifies that constellation called the Pleiades, and so the same word is rendered, ( Job 9:9 38:31); and the Vergiliae, because they appear in the spring of the year, when they yield their sweet influences, which the Scripture ascribes to them, and are desirable; hence they have their name in Hebrew from a word which signifies desire: and Orion ; another constellation; for Aben Ezra says, it is not one star, but many; and as he, with the ancients he mentions, takes the former to be the tail of Aries, and the head of Taurus; so this to be the heart of Scorpio.
This constellation appears in winter, and is a sign of bad weather. Virgil calls it Nimbosus Orion; and it has its name in Hebrew from unsettledness and inconstancy, the weather being then very variable. Amos, being a herdsman, had observed the appearances and effects of these constellations, and adored the Maker of them, whom others neglected: and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night : maketh the constant revolution of day and night, and the days longer in the summer, and shorter in winter, as Kimchi interprets it; and also the various changes of prosperity and adversity, turning the one into the other when he pleases: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth ; as in the time of the universal deluge, to which some Jewish writers apply this, as Jarchi observes; or rather draws up by the heat of the sun the waters of the sea into the air, and forms them into clouds, where they lose their saltness, and become sweet; and then lets them down in plentiful and gentle showers, to water, refresh, and fructify the earth; which is an instance of divine power, wisdom, and goodness. The Targum is, “who commands many armies to be gathered like the waters of the sea, and scatters them upon the face of the earth.”
Some, who understand these words of Christ our righteousness, interpret the whole mystically of his raising up the twelve apostles, comparable to stars; and of his turning the Gentiles, who were darkness itself, to the light of the Gospel; and of his giving up the Jews, who were formerly light, to judicial blindness and darkness; and of his watering the earth with large showers of the divine word; the Lord [is] his name ; he is the true Jehovah, that can and does do all this.
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
עשׂה 6213 כימה 3598 וכסיל 3685 והפך 2015 לבקר 1242 צלמות 6757 ויום 3117 לילה 3915 החשׁיך 2821 הקורא 7121 למי 4325 הים 3220 וישׁפכם 8210 על 5921 פני 6440 הארץ 776 יהוה 3068 שׁמו׃ 8034
