Amos 8

^{1 !} Against the rulers of Israel.

^{2 a} Which signified the ripenes of their sinnes and the readines of Gods judgements.

^{3 b} There shalbe none left to mourne for them.

^{4 c} By staying the sale of fode and necessarie things which you haue gotten into your owne hands, & so cause the poore to spend quickely that little they haue, and at length for necessitie to beome you selaues.

^{5 d} When the dearth was once come, thei were so griedy of gaine, that thei thoght the holy day to be an hinderance vnto them.

^{5 e} That is, the measure smale & the price great.

^{7 !} The Lord sweareth.

^{8 f} That is, the inhabitants of the land shal be drowned, as Nilus drowneth many when it ouerfloweth.

^{9 g} In the middes of their prosperitie I wil send great affliciton.

^{11 !} The famine of the worde of God.

^{12 h} Whereby he sheweth that they shal not onely perish in bodie, but also in soule for lacke of Gods worde, which is the fode thereof.

^{14 k} That is, the commune manes of worshiping and the seruice or religion there vsed.

^{14 i} For the idolaters did vse to sweare by their idoles: which here he calleth their sinnes, as the papistes yet do by theirs.