Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "An adversary will overrun the land; And he will pull down your strongholds, And your fortresses will be plundered."
It will be noted that there are multiple references to: "saith Jehovah, thus saith the Lord Jehovah, etc." in this section, and, in fact, throughout Amos; but the conclusion of critical scholars that, "The multiplicity of introductory formulae shows that here we have a collection of three or four fragmentary sayings,"[26] should be rejected as unfounded and unproved.  The repetition of such expressions is merely characteristic of Amos' style, a fact that cannot be denied.  Look at the repeated questions that are propounded in  Amos 3:3-6.  Repetition was also a characteristic of the teachings of Jesus our Lord.