Matthew Poole and continuators on Amos 8:7

7 The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob , Surely I will never forget any of their works.

Who changeth not, whose words and purposes are immutably true and stedfast, hath often told you, that unless you repent, he will punish for your sins

now he hath sworn it, and sends you word by me, that he hath in most solemn and irrevocable manner determined, publisht, and expresly declared that he will visit all your sins upon you

by himself, for God cannot swear by any greater, and he is called the excellency of Jacob, Psal. 47.4.

If Hebr. If I am a God, I will remember and punish,

or let pass unpunisht, I will never remit the punishment by an act of pardon, nor ever omit to punish by an act of forgetfulness,

Not one of all these their abominable injustices, and irreligion, not one of these cruelties.

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