The grass of the land.— The same word is used in the original in Genesis 1:11, signifying herbs and vegetables. Amos saw the first…

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 …

And it came to pass, [that] when they had made an end of eating
the grass of the land
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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…