Amos 6:7

The sentence. These nobles will indeed retain their preeminence, but it will be at the head of a procession of exiles.

Therefore now i.e. as soon as the threatened disaster has arrived.

shall they go into exile at the head of them that go into exile] heading the procession.

banquet revelry (R.V.). The word appears to denote properly a loud cry(though no corresponding root with this meaning is known in the Semitic languages [178]), here of the cry of revelry, in Jeremiah 16:5 of the cry of grief (A.V., R.V., inadequately "mourning") [179]. In the original there is an assonance between the word rendered "stretched out," and that rendered "pass away," the latter being formed by the first two letters of the former, which thus, as it were, ominously suggests it (wesâr mirzaḥ serûḥîm).

[178] See Fleischer in Levy's Neu-Hebr. Wörterbuch, iii.317 f.

[179] Hçrîa-may have the same double application: contrast Isaiah 15:4; Micah 4:9, with Zephaniah 3:14; Zechariah 9:9, &c.