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amos 8:4 Hear this, you who trample the needy, to do away with the humble of the land,

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      4. Hear--The nobles needed to be urged thus, as hating to hear reproof.
      swallow up the needy--or, "gape after," that is, pant for their goods; so the word is used, Job 7:2, Margin.
      to make the poor . . . to fail--"that they (themselves) may be placed alone in the midst of the earth" (Isa 5:8).

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