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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Amos 8:4 - 8:4
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Hear - The nobles needed to be urged thus, as hating to hear reproof.
swallow up the needy - or, “gape after,” that is, pant for their goods; so the word is used, Job 7:2, Margin.
to make the poor ... to fail - “that they (themselves) may be placed alone in the midst of the earth” (Isa 5:8).