You who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, 'Haven't we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?'
"I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel ..." It should always be remembered in studying this prophecy that it was exactly and terribly fulfilled just as God had promised.  Both the Sacred Scriptures and the testimony of the archeologist testify to the overwhelming destruction of Israel within some thirty years after Amos wrote this prophecy.