The Lord commands and He will smite - Jerome: “If He commands, how does He smite? If He smites, how does He command? In that thing which He …

Breaches.— For this read ruins. (See end of Note on Amos 6:8.) The overthrow of all classes of the population is here ref…

This verse is added only to confirm the previous sentence. The Prophet indeed intimates that the common people, as well as the leaders, trusted in …

For, behold, the Lord commandeth
Has determined and ordered the judgment before, and what follows: Kimchi paraphrase…

How dreadful, how miserable, is the case of those whose eternal ruin the Lord himself has sworn; for he can execute his purpose, and none can alter…