Read Amos 2.6-16 Judgment on Israel.
This judgment speech concludes the series of speeches directed against Israel's neighbors.
By starting with judgments against Israel's neighbors, Amos may have intended to lure his Israelite audience into agreement with him, only to shock them with a concluding speech listing their own sins, even more numerous than those of their neighbors.
In verses 6-8 Amos's indictment begins with Israel's mistreatment of its poor (vv. 6b-7a), in particular, the sale of humans into slavery when they were unable to pay their debts (8.6).
Garments taken in pledge (Ex 22.26-27; Deut 24.12-13) and fines refer to objects and money taken unfairly from the poor by the rich.
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