Komentarz do Amosa 8:5

Saying, “When will the month be delayed”—This is the swallowing up. They anticipate the time that the grain will be expensive and will be sold to the poor with interest, and they will take their fields. the month be delayed Heb. יַעֲבֹר. Jonathan renders: When will the year be interpolated and [when] will the month of interpolation come? This is an expression of delay, like (Jer. 46:17) “Has allowed the appointed time to pass by (הֶעֱבִיר).” And because they delay the offering up of the Omer, and the year is extended, and the old grain becomes expensive.

and the Sabbatical Year, so that we will open grain—When will the Sabbatical Year come, and the grain will become expensive, and we will open our storehouses of grain.

to make the ephah smaller To sell for a smaller measure, and our money we will receive with a large shekel.