Amos Chapter 6 verse 3 Holy Bible
-ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
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You who put far away the evil day, causing the rule of the violent to come near;
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Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
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Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
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Those who put far away the evil day, And cause the seat of violence to come near;
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Who are putting away the day of evil, And ye bring nigh the seat of violence,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - Ye that put far away the evil day. They assigned a distant date to the time of punishment and calamity; they would not look it in the face or contemplate it as approaching and ready to come upon them. Septuagint, οἱ ἐρχόμενοι εἰς ἡμέραν κάκην, "Ye who are coming unto the evil day." The Alexandrian manuscript has οἱ εὐχόμενοι, "ye who pray for" (Amos 5:18), with which the Syriac seems to agree. The Vulgate (as Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion), taking the verb passively, renders, qui separati estis in diem malum. But it is beat to translate it as above, in the sense of "repelling," "putting away with aversion," as in Isaiah 66:5. And cause the seat of violence to come near. They erected the throne (shebheth, "the sitting," or "enthroning") of violence in their midst, made themselves the subjects and slaves of wickedness and oppression. The LXX., mistaking shebheth for shabbath translates, Οἱ ἐγγίζοντες καὶ ἐφαπτόμενοι σαββάτων ψευδῶν. "Ye who are drawing near and clinging to false sabbaths."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) Far away.--They choose to think that the day of reckoning is far off, and cling yet closer to their habits of defrauding the poor at the seat of judgment. (Comp. Ezekiel 12:21-28.)
