Amos 2:15
Verse 15 of 16. The 2nd of 9 chapters in Amos, in The Minor Prophets.
11And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the Lord.
12But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
13Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
14Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
15Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.
16And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.
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Amos 2:15 in the World English Bible
He who handles the bow won’t stand. He who is swift of foot won’t escape. He who rides the horse won’t deliver himself.Read Amos 2:15 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Amos 2:15
Are they, as Asahel, as swift of foot as a wild roe? (2 Sam. ii. 18), yet, like him, they shall run the faster upon their own destruction: He that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself, v. 15. Or do they say (as those, Isa. xxx. 16), We will flee upon horses, and we will ride upon the swift? Yet they shall be overtaken: Neither shall he that rides the horse deliver himself from his pursuers.
Read Matthew Henry on Amos 2:9–16: God's Remonstrance with Israel. (b. c. 790.)
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