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Amos 8:12
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Mereka akan mengembara dari laut ke laut dan menjelajah dari utara ke timur untuk mencari firman TUHAN, tetapi tidak mendapatnya.
Maka orang akan mengembara dari pada laut sampai kepada laut, dan dari pada utara datang ke timur orang akan beridar-idar akan menuntut firman, tetapi tiada didapatinya akan dia!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
shall run: Proverbs 14:6, Daniel 12:4, Matthew 11:25-27, Matthew 12:30, Matthew 24:23-26, Romans 9:31-33, Romans 11:7-10, 2 Timothy 3:6, 2 Timothy 3:7
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 3:1 - the word 2 Samuel 15:20 - go up and down Proverbs 29:18 - there Isaiah 30:20 - yet shall Jeremiah 5:1 - Run ye Lamentations 2:9 - her prophets Ezekiel 3:26 - and shalt Ezekiel 7:26 - but Hosea 9:4 - their bread Matthew 25:10 - they Acts 16:6 - forbidden
Cross-References
The fountaynes also of the deepe, and the windowes of heauen were stopped, and the rayne from heauen was restrayned.
And the waters from the earth returned, goyng and comming agayne: and after the ende of the hundreth and fiftith day, the waters were abated.
And the waters were goyng and decreasing vntyll the tenth moneth: In the tenth moneth, and in the first day of the same moneth, were the toppes of the mountaynes seene.
And after the ende of the fourtith day, it came to passe [that] Noah opened the wyndowe of the arke which he had made,
And he sent foorth a Rauen, whiche went out, goyng foorth, and returnyng, vntyll the waters were dryed vp vpon the earth.
And agayne he sent foort a Doue from him, that he myght see yf the waters were abated from the vpper face of the grounde.
And he abode yet other seuen dayes, and agayne he sent foorth the Doue out of the arke:
Attende thou [therfore] vpon God, be of a good courage, and he will comfort thine heart: [I say] attende thou vpon God.
And I wyll wayte vpon the Lorde that hideth his face from the house of Iacob, and I wyll loke for him.
And in that day it shalbe sayde, lo this is our God, we haue wayted for hym, and he shall saue vs, this is the Lorde in whom we haue hoped, we wyll be merie and reioyce in the saluation [that commeth] of hym.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And they shall wander from sea to sea,.... From the sea of Tiberias, or Galilee; or from the Dead sea, the lake Asphaltites; or from the Red sea, which was to the south of the land of Israel, to the great sea, which is to the west, as Aben Ezra: so the Targum,
"from the sea to the west;''
that is, to the Mediterranean sea:
and from the north even to the east; proceeding from the south to the west, they shall turn from thence to the north, and so to the east, which describes the borders of the land of Canaan, Numbers 34:3; and the sense is, that
they shall go to and fro; throughout the whole land, and all over it,
to seek the word of the Lord; not the written word, but the interpretation of it; doctrine from before the Lord, as the Targum; the preaching of the word, or ministers to instruct them in it; or the word of prophecy, and prophets to tell them when it would be better times, and how long their present distress should last:
and shall not find [it]; there should be no ministry, no preaching, no prophesying; as never since among the ten tribes, so it has been the case of the Jews, the two tribes, upon the rejection of the Messiah; the Gospel was taken from them; no tidings could they hear of the Messiah, though they ran to and fro to find him, it being told them Lo, here, and Lo, there; see John 7:34.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
They shall wander - Literally, “reel.” The word is used of the reeling of drunkards, of the swaying to and fro of trees in the wind, of the quivering of the lips of one agitated, and then of the unsteady seeking of persons bewildered, looking for what they know not where to find. “From sea to sea,” from the sea of Galilee to the Mediterranean, that is, from east to west, “and from the north even to the sunrising,” round again to the east, from where their search had begun, where light should be, and was not. It may be, that Amos refers to the description of the land by Moses, adapting it to the then separate condition of Ephraim, “your south border shall be from the extremity of the Salt Sea (Dead Sea) eastward - and the goings out of it shall be at the sea, and for the western border ye shall have the great sea for a border. And this shall be your north border - and the border shall descend and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward” Numbers 34:3-12. Amos does not mention “the south,” because “there” alone, where they might have found, where the true worship of God was, they did not seek. Had they sought God in Judah, instead of seeking to aggrandize themselves by its subdual, Tiglath-pileser would probably never have come against them. One expedition only in the seventeen years of his reign was directed westward , and that was at the petition of Ahaz.
The principle of God’s dealings, that, in certain conditions of a sinful people, He will withdraw His word, is instanced in Israel, not limited to it. God says to Ezekiel, “I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, and thou shalt be dumb; and shalt not be to them a reprover, for it is a rebellious house” Ezekiel 3:26; and Ezekiel says, “Destruction shall come upon destruction, and rumor shall be upon rumor, and they shall seek a vision from the prophet, and the law shall perish from the priest and counsel from the ancients” Ezekiel 7:26. : “God turns away from them, and checks the grace of prophecy. For since they neglected His law, He on His side, stays the prophetic gift. “And the word was precious in those days, there was no open vision,” that is, God did not speak to them through the prophets; He breathed not upon them the Spirit through which they spake. He did not appear to them, but is silent and hidden. There was silence, enmity between God and man.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Amos 8:12. They shall wander front sea to sea — From the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea or from west to east, and from north to south, to seek the word of the Lord; to find a prophet, or any person authorized by God to show them the end of their calamities. In this state they shall continue, because they have rejected Him who is the bread of life.
