In this chapter, I. The oppressors in Israel are threatened for their oppression of the poor, Amos 4:1–3. II. The idolaters in Israel, being joined to idols, are given up to their own heart’s lusts, Amos 4:4–5. III.

It is here foretold, in the name of God, that oppressors shall be humbled and idolaters shall be hardened. I. That proud oppressors shall be humbled for their oppressions: for he that does wrong shall receive according to the wrong that he has done. Now observe, 1.

Here, I. God complains of his people’s incorrigibleness under the judgments which he had brought upon them in order to their humiliation and reformation.