Verse Lens · Expanded explanation
Amos 9:5 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 5. 5And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
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Quick Meaning
This verse begins a creator hymn with the Lord GOD of hosts touching land so it melts, mourns, and rises like Egypt's flood.
Read It With
- Amos 9:5-6
Read Amos 9:5 with 9:5-6. This verse begins a creator hymn with the Lord GOD of hosts touching land so it melts, mourns, and rises like Egypt's flood. The complete unit establishes this movement: The judge in the altar vision is the cosmic sovereign whose touch moves land, whose structure spans heaven and earth, and whose call directs sea waters.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The hymn grounds comprehensive judgment in creation authority before the argument reopens questions of election, nations, and preservation. Within that movement, this verse begins a creator hymn with the Lord GOD of hosts touching land so it melts, mourns, and rises like Egypt's flood.
Follow the Context
- The Lord GOD of hosts touches land so it melts and mourns.
- The land rises and sinks like Egypt's river.
- Heavenly chambers and an earth-founded structure are built.
- Sea waters are summoned over earth, and the name LORD closes the hymn.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
The Nile image does not prove a modern earthquake, flood, climate event, or punishment of victims.
What Remains True
The judge's authority extends over land and its rhythms.
How It Can Shape Life
- Use scientific evidence and disaster care without inventing providential causes.
Teach It Back
Explain Amos 9:5's contribution to Amos 9:5-6: begins a creator hymn with the Lord GOD of hosts touching land so it melts, mourns, and rises like Egypt's flood. Include what the surrounding verses add, the stated uncertainty, and what this verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Amos 9:5-6 — The LORD of Hosts Rules Land, Heavens, and SeaSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
The physical event referent and hymn's compositional history remain uncertain.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Amos 9:5-6, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Amos
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, clause relationships, wordplays, names, and the base text behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Amos.xml, 9:5-6
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Amos with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, textual, literary, historical, and uncertainty notes.
Exact location: NET Bible Amos PDF, printed pp. 1721-1722, translation and notes on 9:5-6
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