27 Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus," says the Lord, whose name is God Almighty.

Other Translations of Amos 5:27

King James Version

27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose name is The God of hosts.

English Standard Version

27 and I will send you into exile beyond Damascus," says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts.

The Message

27 Since you like them so much, you can take them with you when I drive you into exile beyond Damascus." God's Message, God-of-the-Angel-Armies.

New King James Version

27 Therefore I will send you into captivity beyond Damascus," Says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts.

New Living Translation

27 So I will send you into exile, to a land east of Damascus, " says the Lord, whose name is the God of Heaven's Armies.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Amos 5:27

Commentary on Amos 5:18-27

(Read Amos 5:18-27)

Woe unto those that desire the day of the Lord's judgments, that wish for times of war and confusion; as some who long for changes, hoping to rise upon the ruins of their country! but this should be so great a desolation, that nobody could gain by it. The day of the Lord will be a dark, dismal, gloomy day to all impenitent sinners. When God makes a day dark, all the world cannot make it light. Those who are not reformed by the judgments of God, will be pursued by them; if they escape one, another stands ready to seize them. A pretence of piety is double iniquity, and so it will be found. The people of Israel copied the crimes of their forefathers. The law of worshipping the Lord our God, is, Him only we must serve. Professors thrive so little, because they have little or no communion with God in their duties. They were led captive by Satan into idolatry, therefore God caused them to go into captivity among idolaters.