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For a similar attitude of mind on the part of the wicked, cf. Am. 6:3. Looking forward to Yahweh’s day as a time of joy and blessing (cf. 5:18), they scornfully refuse to heed the prophet’s warnings of calamity. With this picture of Yahweh’s day as a time of discipline and purification resulting in the preservation and strengthening of the righteous, that of Amos is in striking contrast; cf. 5:18–20; 8:9, 10, 12, 13.—11. In that day] Cf. the introductory phrase in v. 13, and the occurrence of both
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