Just as our Lord repeated the same words in the Garden, so Amos interceded with God with words, all but one the same, and with the same plea: that …

Instead of “forgive,” the prophet now only ventures to say “cease,” a cry for arrest of judgment. Yet the same plea for pity is urged as before. Je…

This time, the prophet saw the fire devouring the land—perhaps the fire of war, which casts its blazing firebrand upon peaceful dwellings. This fir…

The Prophet shows that God had not only once spared the people, but that when He was again prepared for vengeance, He still willingly deferred it, …

Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech you
From destroying the land; do not allow this calamity to proceed any fu…

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…