Amos 4:13

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

13 For behold, He Who forms the mountains and creates the wind and declares to man what is his thought, Who makes the morning darkness and treads on the heights of the earth—the Lord, the God of hosts, is His name! Ps. 139:2; Dan. 2:28.">[fn]

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
13 For behold, He Who forms the mountains and creates the wind and declares to man what is his thought, Who makes the morning darkness and treads on the heights of the earth—the Lord, the God of hosts, is His name! Ps. 139:2; Dan. 2:28.">[fn]

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Bahwa sesungguhnya Tuhan yang merupakan segala gunung dan yang menjadikan angin, dan yang memberitahu kepada manusia segala kepikiran hatinya, dan yang mengadakan bahwa fajarpun menjadi gelap dan yang menjejak segala tempat tinggi di atas bumi; maka Tuhan, Allah semesta alam sekalian, itulah nama-Nya.

Contextual Overview

⁶ Therfore haue I geue you cleannesse of teeth in all your cities, & scarsenesse of bread in all your places: yet haue ye not returned vnto me, sayth the Lorde. ⁷ And also I haue withholden the rayne from you when there were yet three monethes to the haruest, and I caused it to rayne vpon one citie, and haue not caused it to rayne vpon an other citie: one peece was raigned vpon, & the peece whervpon it rayned not, withered. ⁸ So two [or] three cities wandred vnto one citie to drinke water, but they were not satisfied: yet haue ye not returned vnto me, sayth the Lorde. ⁹ I haue smitten you with blasting and mildeaw, your great gardens, and your vineyardes, and your figge trees, & your oliue trees, dyd the palmer worme denoure: yet haue ye not returned vnto me sayth the Lorde. ¹⁰ Pestilence haue I sent among you after the maner of Egypt: your young men haue I slayne with the sworde, & haue taken away your horses, and I haue made the stinke of your tentes to come euen vp into your nostrels: yet haue ye not returned vnto me, sayth the Lorde. ¹¹ I haue ouerthrowen you, as God ouerthrewe Sodoma and Gomorra: and ye were as a fire brande pluckt out of the burning: yet haue ye not returned vnto me, sayth the Lorde. ¹² Therfore thus will I do vnto thee O Israel, [and] because I will do this vnto thee, prepare to meete thy God O Israel. ¹³ For lo, he that fourmeth the mountaynes, and createth the winde, and declareth vnto man what is his thought, whiche maketh the morning darkenesse, and walketh vpon the hie places of the earth, the Lorde God of hoastes is his name.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he that: This is a most powerful description of the majesty of Jehovah, the God of hosts. Job 38:4-11, Psalms 65:6, Isaiah 40:12, Zechariah 12:1

and createth: Psalms 135:7, Psalms 147:18, Jeremiah 10:13, Jeremiah 51:16

wind: or, spirit, John 3:8

and declareth: Psalms 139:2, Daniel 2:28, Matthew 9:4, Luke 7:39, Luke 7:40, John 2:25

that maketh: Amos 5:8, Amos 8:9, Exodus 10:22, Exodus 14:20, Isaiah 5:30, Jeremiah 13:16

and treadeth: Deuteronomy 32:13, Deuteronomy 33:29, Micah 1:3, Habakkuk 3:19

The Lord: Amos 3:13, Amos 5:8, Amos 6:8, Amos 9:6, Isaiah 47:4, Isaiah 48:2, Jeremiah 10:16, Jeremiah 51:19

Reciprocal: Exodus 15:10 - blow Job 9:7 - commandeth Job 38:19 - darkness Psalms 135:6 - Whatsoever Psalms 148:8 - stormy Isaiah 45:7 - create darkness Ezekiel 7:7 - morning Daniel 2:29 - he that Joel 2:2 - as Amos 5:27 - whose Jonah 1:4 - the Lord Matthew 12:25 - Jesus

Cross-References

Job 15:22
He beleueth neuer to be deliuered out of darknesse: for the sworde is alwayes before his eyes.

Revelation 16:9
And men boyled in great heate, and blasphemed the name of God whiche hath power ouer these plagues, & they repented not, to geue hym glorie.

Revelation 16:11
And blasphemed the God of heauen for their sorowe, and for theirs sores, and repented not of their deedes.

Revelation 16:21
And there fell a great hayle, as it had ben talentes, out of heauen vpon the men, and the men blasphemed God, because of the plague of the hayle: for the plague therof was exceadyng great.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For, lo, he that formeth the mountains,.... These words are a description of the glorious Person, "thy God" and Saviour, to be met; he is the Creator of all things, that formed the mountains, and so was before them, as in Proverbs 8:25; and able to surmount and remove all mountains of difficulties that lay in his way of working out salvation for his people:

and createth the wind; or "spirit"; not the Holy Spirit, which is uncreated; but either angels, whom he makes spirits; or the spirit and soul of man he is the Creator of; or rather the natural wind is meant, which is his creature, he holds in his fists, restrains and commands, at his pleasure, Matthew 8:26;

and declareth unto man what [is] his thought; not what is man's thought, though he knows what is in man without any information, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart, and can reveal them to men, and convince them that he knows them, Matthew 9:4; but rather the thought of God, the meditation of his heart, concerning the salvation of men; his thoughts of peace, which are the deep things of God, and which Christ, lying in the bosom of his Father, was privy to, and has declared, John 1:18. The Septuagint and Arabic versions, reading the words wrong, render them, "declaring to men his Christ"; which, though true of God, is not the sense of this clause. The Targum is,

"what are his works x?''

his works of creation, providence, redemption, and grace:

that maketh the morning darkness; or "darkness morning", or "the morning [out of] darkness" y; being the dayspring from on high, the morning star, the sun of righteousness, that, rising, made the Gospel day, after a long night of Jewish and Gentile darkness; and who made the same dispensation a morning to one, and darkness to another, John 9:39. The Septuagint version is, "making the morning and the cloud"; the Vulgate Latin version, "making the morning cloud"; his coming was as the morning, Hosea 6:3;

and treadeth upon the high places of the earth; the land of Israel, which is Immanuel's land, is said by the Jews to be higher than other lands; Jerusalem higher than any part of Judea, and the mountain the temple was built on higher than Jerusalem: here Christ trod in the days of his flesh, and from the mount of Olives ascended to heaven, after he had trampled upon and spoiled principalities and powers, spiritual wickednesses in high places, and when he led captivity captive. Jarchi interprets it of humbling the mighty and proud, who are compared to the high places of the earth. The Targum is,

"to declared to men what are his works, to prepare light for the righteous as the morning light, who goes and prepares darkness for earth;''

the Lord, the God of hosts, [is] his name; he is the Jehovah, the Lord our righteousness, the God and Governor of the armies of heaven the hosts of angels, and to whom all creatures on earth are subject; all power in heaven and earth belongs unto him; this is Israel's God, his Redeemer and Saviour he is called upon to prepare to meet.

x So Kimchi and R. Sol. Urbin. Ohel Moed, fol. 4. 5. y עושה שחר עיפה "faciens obscuritatem auroram", Drusius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For lo, He that formeth the mountains - Their God whom they worshiped was but nature. Amos tells them, who “their God” is, whom they were to prepare to meet. He describes Him as the Creator of that, which to man seems most solid, to go furthest back in times past. Before the everlasting mountains were, God is, for He made them. Yet God is not a Creator in the past alone. He is a continual Worker. “And formeth the wind,” that finest subtlest creature, alone invisible in this visible world; the most immaterial of things material, the breath of our life, the image of man’s created immaterial spirit, or even of God’s uncreated presence, the mildest and the most terrific of the agents around us. But the thought of God, as a Creator or Preserver without, affects man but little. To man, a sinner, far more impressive than all majesty of Creative power, is the thought that God knows his inmost soul. So he adds; “and declareth unto man what is his thought,” that is, his meditation, before he puts it into words. God knows our thoughts more truly than we ourselves. We disguise them to ourselves, know not our own hearts, wish not to know them. God reveals us to ourselves. As He says, “The heart is deceitful above all things; who can know it? I, the Lord, search the heart; I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings” Jeremiah 17:9-10. Man’s own conscience tells him that God’s knowledge of His inmost self is no idle knowledge. “If our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart and knoweth all things” 1 John 3:20.

That maketh the morning darkness - If the light become darkness, how great that darkness! From the knowledge of man’s heart, the prophet goes on to retribution. Morning is the symbol of all which is beautiful, cheering, radiant, joyous to man; darkness effaces all these. Their God, he tells them, can do all this. He can quench in gloom all the magnificent beauty of His own creation and make all which gladdened the eyes of man, “one universal blot.” “And treadeth upon the high places of the earth.” He “treadeth” them, to tread them under. He humbleth all which exalteth itself. “God walketh, when He worketh. He is without all, within all, containeth all, worketh all in all. Hence, it is said, “He walketh on the wings of the wind Psalms 104:3; He walketh on the heights of the sea Job 9:8; He walketh on the circuit of heaven” Job 22:14.

Such was He, who made Himself “their God,” The Author of all, the Upholder of all, the Subduer of all which exalted itself, who stood in a special relation to man’s thoughts, and who punished. At His command stand all the hosts of heaven. Would they have Him for them, or against them? Would they be at peace with Him, before they met Him, face to face?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Amos 4:13. He that formeth the mountains — Here is a powerful description of the majesty of God. He formed the earth; he created the wind; he knows the inmost thoughts of the heart; he is the Creator of darkness and light; he steps from mountain to mountain, and has all things under his feet! Who is he who hath done and can do all these things? JEHOVAH ELOHIM TSEBAOTH, that is his name.

1. The self-existing, eternal, and independent Being.

2. The God who is in covenant with mankind.

3. The universal Commander of all the hosts of earth and heaven. This name is farther illustrated in the following chapter. These words are full of instruction, and may be a subject of profitable meditation to every serious mind.