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The phrase is a repeated formula introducing judgment oracles in Amos. It announces that wrongdoing has piled up and the LORD will not “revoke the punishment.” It appears at the start of multiple oracles, such as Amos 1:3.
3Thus says Yahweh: For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: