And behold He formed - (that is, He was forming.) The very least things, then, are as much in His infinite Mind as what we count the greates…

Each of the visions is introduced with closely resembling words. For “grasshopper,” read locusts. The phrase “king’s mowings” suggests tha…

In a vision, the prophet saw the locusts or grasshoppers come to devour all the green things of the land — a very terrible visitation.

If yo…

Amos shows in this chapter that God had often deferred the punishments He had determined to inflict on the people. Thus, he reminds the Israelites …

Thus has the Lord shown to me
What follows in this and the two chapters, before the prophet delivered what he heard …

God bears long, but he will not always bear with a provoking people. The remembrance of the mercies we formerly received, like the produce of the e…