Amos 6:3

Woe to you that flatter yourselves that the day of darkness and misery foretold is far off! See Poole on "Ezekiel 12:27". These were great ones too, that the prophet here threateneth, who thus postponed the day of Israel's and Judah's calamities. The evil day; not as if it should be a short calamity, as a day; but it speaks the determinate, fixed time, and the haste wherewith the execution shall be made. The seat; the throne, or judgment-seat, which should relieve the oppressed, condemn the wicked, and acquit the innocent, this is made a seat of violence, where unjust judges condemn the just and take bribes. To come near; thus you draw the judgments of God on yourselves, by acting violence against the poor, and contemning the threats of the prophets.