Israel relied, against God, on its own strength. “Have we not,” they said, “taken to us horns by our own strength?” ([Reference A…

This doom Amos darkly foreshadows to be invasion and military overthrow, with all its attendant calamities.

Yesterday, I explained the verse in which the Prophet says, in God's name, that the people were like a grievous and heavy burden, as though they we…

Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift They should be so straitened and cooped up, and be so loaded with pressu…

We often need to be reminded of the mercies we have received, as these greatly add to the evil of the sins we have committed. They had spiritual pr…