The Meaning of Amos 9:10 Explained

Amos 9:10

KJV: All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

YLT: By sword die do all sinners of My people, Who are saying, 'Not overtake, or go before, For our sakes, doth evil.'

Darby: All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, Evil shall not overtake nor befall us.

ASV: All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, The evil shall not overtake nor meet us.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

All the sinners  of my people  shall die  by the sword,  which say,  The evil  shall not overtake  nor prevent  us. 

What does Amos 9:10 Mean?

Verse Meaning

All the guilty Israelites would die by the sword, the Lord promised. None of them who claimed that they would escape that calamity would get away.

Context Summary

Amos 9:1-15 - The Day Of Restoration
The guilty will certainly be punished. If they enter the sacred place of worship, even that will not shelter them, Amos 9:1. Flight and concealment will be in vain. Let them climb ever so high, or burrow ever so deep; let them scale the loftiest hills, or dive into the deepest seas-the consequences of their sins will overtake them, Amos 9:2-3. How can sinners hope to escape from Him whose chambers are built in the heavens and whose voice governs the tides, Amos 9:6? The great desolations of the past prove the exactness and severity of His judgments, Amos 9:7-8. How remarkably Amos 9:9 has been fulfilled? Notwithstanding their scatterings, the Hebrew people have been preserved as a race.
The final paragraph, Amos 9:11-15, is very reassuring. It is a burst of noble anticipation, quoted by the Apostle James, Acts 15:14-17. The promises made to Abraham and David are yet to be fulfilled. The derision of their foes, of whom Edom was the ringleader, will be silenced. Through the parted curtain, we descry the golden age of the future. There is a divine plan working to its conclusion, and Israel shall yet come again to the land given to their fathers [source]

Chapter Summary: Amos 9

1  The certainty of the desolation
11  The restoring of the tabernacle of David

What do the individual words in Amos 9:10 mean?

By the sword shall die all the sinful of My people who say not shall overtake nor confront us the calamity
בַּחֶ֣רֶב יָמ֔וּתוּ כֹּ֖ל חַטָּאֵ֣י עַמִּ֑י הָאֹמְרִ֗ים לֹֽא־ תַגִּ֧ישׁ וְתַקְדִּ֛ים בַּעֲדֵ֖ינוּ הָרָעָֽה

בַּחֶ֣רֶב  By  the  sword 
Parse: Preposition-b, Article, Noun, feminine singular
Root: חֶרֶב  
Sense: sword, knife.
יָמ֔וּתוּ  shall  die 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: מוּת  
Sense: to die, kill, have one executed.
חַטָּאֵ֣י  the  sinful 
Parse: Adjective, masculine plural construct
Root: חַטָּא  
Sense: sinners adj.
עַמִּ֑י  of  My  people 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: עַם 
Sense: nation, people.
הָאֹמְרִ֗ים  who  say 
Parse: Article, Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine plural
Root: אָמַר 
Sense: to say, speak, utter.
תַגִּ֧ישׁ  shall  overtake 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Imperfect, third person feminine singular
Root: נָגַשׁ  
Sense: to draw near, approach.
וְתַקְדִּ֛ים  nor  confront 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Hifil, Conjunctive imperfect, third person feminine singular
Root: קָדַם  
Sense: to meet, come or be in front, confront, go before.
בַּעֲדֵ֖ינוּ  us 
Parse: Preposition, first person common plural
Root: עַד  
Sense: as far as, even to, until, up to, while, as far as.
הָרָעָֽה  the  calamity 
Parse: Article, Adjective, feminine singular
Root: רַע 
Sense: bad, evil.