I will turn your feasts into mourning - He returns to the sentence that he had pronounced (Amos 8:3), before he describ…

The imagery is very vivid. The prophet threatens a famine of the word of Jehovah, and a parching thirst for the Water of Life, now no longer attain…

The Prophet pursues the same subject, but he omits the figurative mode he had previously adopted. He therefore denounces vengeance more openly: tha…

And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs
into lamentation

Eith…

The rich and powerful of the land were the most guilty of oppre ion, as well as the foremost in idolatry. They were weary of the restraints of the …