Amós 2:14

La Biblia Reina-Valera

Y la huída perecerá del ligero, y el fuerte no esforzará su fuerza, ni el valiente librará su vida;

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Y la huida le fallará al ligero, y el fuerte no fortalecerá su poder, ni el valiente salvará su vida.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
y la huida perecer� del ligero, y al fuerte no le ayudar� su fuerza, ni el valiente librar� su vida;

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
y la huida perecer� del ligero, y el fuerte no esforzar� su fuerza, ni el valiente librar� su alma;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the flight: Amos 9:1-3, Job 11:20, *marg. Ecclesiastes 9:11, Isaiah 30:16, Jeremiah 9:23

himself: Heb. his soul, or life

Reciprocal: Joshua 8:20 - and they had Judges 8:12 - took 1 Samuel 31:3 - went sore 2 Samuel 2:18 - was as light 1 Kings 19:17 - him that escapeth 1 Kings 20:30 - a wall 2 Kings 7:7 - their horses 2 Kings 25:5 - and overtook 1 Chronicles 10:3 - went Job 27:22 - he would fain flee Psalms 50:22 - none Isaiah 9:14 - will cut Isaiah 40:30 - General Jeremiah 11:11 - which Jeremiah 25:35 - the shepherds Jeremiah 39:4 - when Jeremiah 46:6 - not Jeremiah 48:44 - that fleeth Jeremiah 52:8 - General Lamentations 4:19 - they pursued Hosea 5:14 - none Amos 4:12 - thus Micah 2:3 - from Micah 6:14 - and thou Hebrews 9:7 - errors

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift,.... They should be so straitened and cooped up, and be so loaded with pressures, that those, as swift of foot as Asahel, should not be able to make their escape by fleeing:

and the strong shall not strengthen his force; should not increase it, or muster it up, and exert it to such a degree, as to be able to defend and secure himself from the enemy:

neither shall the mighty deliver himself; "his soul" or "life"; a soldier, a man of war, an expert and courageous officer at the head of his troop, or even the general of the army; see Psalms 33:16.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Israel relied, against God, on his own strength. “Have we not,” they said, “taken to us horns by our own strength?” Amos 6:13. Amos tells them then, that every means of strength, resistance, flight, swiftness of foot, of horse, place of refuge, should fail them. Three times he repeats, as a sort of dirge, “he shall not deliver himself.”

Therefore the flight shall perish - (Probably place of flight Job 11:20; Psalms 142:5; Jeremiah 25:35). They had despised God, as their “place of refuge” , so “the place of refuge, should perish from the swift,” as though it were not. He should flee amain, but there would be no “place to flee unto.” God alone “renews strength;” therefore “the strong” man should not “strengthen his force or might,” should not be able to gather or “collect his strength” as we say. Fear should disable him. “The handler of the bow” (as in Jeremiah 46:9), and who by habit is a skilled archer, although himself out of the immediate reach of the enemy, and able, unharmed, to annoy him and protect the fugitives, “shall not stand” (as in Jeremiah 46:21; Nahum 2:8). Panic should overtake him. The “mighty” man, the “fleet of foot” should “not deliver,” yea, “the horseman” should not “deliver himself;” yea, he who, “among the mighty,” was “strongest of his heart,” firm-souled among those of mightiest prowess, “shall flee away naked,” that is, bared of all, armor or dress, which might encumber his flight “in that day” which the Lord made a day of terror His own day.

Saith the Lord - Probably literally, “the secret utterance of the Lord.” Amos, more than Hosea, uses this special authentication of his words , which is so common in Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Zechariah. He claims a knowledge, which those around him had not, and ratifies it by the express appeal to the direct, though secret, revelation of God; what those who were not of God, would deny; what they who were of God, would believe.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Amos 2:14. The flight shall perish from the swift — The swiftest shall not be able to save himself from a swifter destruction. None, by might, by counsel, or by fleetness, shall be able to escape from the impending ruin. In a word, God has so fully determined to avenge the quarrel of his broken covenant, that all attempts to escape from his judgments shall be useless.