Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Amos 8:4
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).
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