Matthew Poole Commentary - Amos 5:19 - 5:19

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Amos 5:19 - 5:19


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As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him: here proverbially is expressed the continuance and succession of evils one after another; it will be a long calamity, when your civil dissensions waste you first, next God’s armies of locusts and palmer-worms, and the Assyrians too, until all ends in final captivity; you may escape one, but shall fall into another calamity, and worse than that you escaped; abroad your miseries shall be like a lion or bear.



Or went into the house; at home you may hope for safety from such open dangers, but there other kind of mischief shall meet you.



And leaned his hand on the wall; weary and faint, shall think to ease and support himself.



And a serpent bit him; whose biting infuseth a deadly poison, which suddenly corrupts the whole mass of blood, and kills the man. If conspirators at home be lions, the Assyrians will be as bears to you.