Amos 3:9

⁹ Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great uproar in the midst thereof, and the oppressions that are within her:

Smitten

'The smitten' signify people who are oppressed by the falsities of ignorance.