That pant after the dust of the earth - Literally, “the panters!” with indignation. Not content with having torn from him the little heredit…

Dust of the earth on the head of the poor.— This can only mean, as Ewald and Keil interpret, that they long to see the po…

Here Amos charges them first with insatiable avarice; they panted for the heads of the poor on the dust of the earth. In my judgment, this passage …

That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor , &c.] Either were greedy after money, the dust of the eart…

The evil pa ions of the heart break out in various forms; but the Lord looks to our motives as well as our conduct. Those who deal cruelly will be …