Hear you and testify you in—(Rather to or against) the house of Israel; first “hear” yourselves, then “testify,” that is, solemnly “protest,…

Hear ye. —Addressed to the foreign nations Egypt and Philistia referred to in Amos 3:9.

Amos, I have no doubt, added this passage to show that the superstitions in which he knew the Israelites falsely trusted would be so far from helpi…

Hear you, and testify in the house of Jacob The prophets and priests, whose business it was to speak to the people from t…

That power which is an instrument of unrighteousness will justly be brought down and broken. What is obtained and kept wrongfully will not be kept …