Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Amos 8:4

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Amos8:4

4. 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" (Is 5:8).

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