Amos 4:3
And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the LORD. And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the LORD.
The breaches are openings made in a city wall. The verse describes Israel's defeat and forced exile as punishment for injustice and unfaithfulness, with the people driven out through those openings in a disorderly line, each straight ahead before her, and then cast toward the palace.
It belongs to God's recounting of His past dealings with Israel and of their crooked ways before chastisement falls on the nation in its severest form. It is addressed to a people unprepared to meet God except for punishment, to force home conviction of sin and of righteousness and of judgment. In love and mercy mingled with justice, it still gives opportunity as individuals to repent and return before the national stroke falls. Together with the rest of Amos 4 and 5, it reveals God's character of love and long-suffering and shows that His relation to His church and to the world and His manner of dealing with them is the same in principle without variableness, so that His long-suffering is to be accounted as salvation.