Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Amos 8:4

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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" ( Isaiah 5:8 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-5" class="com-number"