Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their lords, "Bring, and let us drink."
"And let us drink ..." Butler's terse paraphrase of this is, "You debauched women who nag your husbands to supply you with intoxicants."[7] Thus, the husbands of those women, "are induced to deal oppressively with the poor that they may procure the viands needed for their wives' debaucheries."[8]  Due to the general character of the language employed here, their drinking, "may be understood to have included drinking, feasting, and wanton luxury of every kind."[9]  Why was Amos so concerned with the actions of these idle and wicked women?  McFadden was right in his declaration that: