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Joel and Amos: An Introduction and Commentary (Hadjiev) is unavailable, but you can change that!

Joel’s arresting imagery—blasting trumpet, darkened sun, and marching hosts—has shaped the church’s eschatological vision of a day of wrath. Amos’s ringing indictments—callous oppression, heartless worship, and self-seeking gain—have periodically awakened the conscience of God’s people. Twenty-five-hundred years later, those prophetic words still speak powerfully. This Tyndale commentary by...

and oppression of the poor (2:6–8; 3:10; 4:1; 5:10–12; 8:4–6) and, more generally, with disregarding justice and righteousness (5:7, 24; 6:12). Justice (mišpāṭ) has decidedly legal connotations. It often refers to judicial decisions, and the laws and rules that were based on them. Righteousness (ṣĕdāqâ) describes the moral standards to which behaviour in the context of communal life and personal relationships needs to conform. These standards are held to be a self-evident part of the moral fabric
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