The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 205
205. Internal Meaning of Amos, Chapter 5
1-3 Lamentation over the church because it has been successively devastated. (2)
4-9 Exhortation to seek the Lord, that all things of the church may not perish through evils and falsities. (2)
10-13 They reject truths because they are in self-intelligence. (2)
14-15 Exhortation to be converted. (2)
16-20 Lamentation over the destruction of the church, and over their own destruction, when the Lord comes. (3)
21-22 Their worship cannot be accepted. (2)
23-25 It will be accepted if they have good and truth. (2)
26-27 Otherwise they are deprived of all knowledge [cognitio] of truth and good. (2)
Amos 5:1-3
1
Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
2
"The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more. She is cast down on her land; there is no one to raise her up."
3
For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel."
