Amos 8:4
Douay-Rheims
Hear this, you that crush the poor, and make the needy of the land to fail,
Rashi
you who swallow up Heb. הַשֹׁאֲפִים, who swallow up the needy.
and to cut off Heb. וְלַשְׁבִּית, like וּלְהַשְׁבִּית. And examples [of this are found in Isaiah 23:11:] “To destroy (לַשְׁמִד) its strongholds.” (II Kings 9:15) “To go and tell (לַגִיד) in Jezreel.”
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
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1105 · Amos 8:4
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