God in Amos

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1. 1:2

   He said: “The LORD roars from Zion and raises His voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the summit of Carmel withers.”

2. 1:3

   This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they threshed Gilead with sledges of iron.

3. 1:5

   I will break down the gates of Damascus; I will cut off the ruler from the Valley of Aven and the one who wields the scepter in Beth-eden. The people of Aram will be exiled to Kir,” says the LORD.

4. 1:6

   This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Gaza, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they exiled a whole population, delivering them up to Edom.

5. 1:8

   I will cut off the ruler of Ashdod and the one who wields the scepter in Ashkelon. I will turn My hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines will perish,” says the Lord GOD.

6. 1:9

   This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Tyre, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they delivered up a whole congregation of exiles to Edom and broke a covenant of brotherhood.

7. 1:11

   This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Edom, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and stifled all compassion; his anger raged continually, and his fury flamed incessantly.

8. 1:13

   This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.

9. 1:15

   Their king will go into exile—he and his princes together,” says the LORD.

10. 2:1

    This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Moab, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he burned to lime the bones of Edom’s king.

11. 2:3

    I will cut off the ruler of Moab and kill all the officials with him,” says the LORD.

12. 2:4

    This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked.

13. 2:6

    This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals.

14. 2:11

    I raised up prophets from your sons and Nazirites from your young men. Is this not true, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD.

15. 2:16

    Even the bravest of mighty men will flee naked on that day,” declares the LORD.

16. 3:1

    Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:

17. 3:6

    If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?

18. 3:7

    Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.

19. 3:8

    The lion has roared—who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken—who will not prophesy?

20. 3:10

    “For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”

21. 3:11

    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “An enemy will surround the land; he will pull down your strongholds and plunder your citadels.”

22. 3:12

    This is what the LORD says: “As the shepherd snatches from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites dwelling in Samaria will be rescued having just the corner of a bed or the cushion of a couch.

23. 3:13

    Hear and testify against the house of Jacob, declares the Lord GOD, the God of Hosts.

24. 3:15

    I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end,” declares the LORD.

25. 4:2

    The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

26. 4:3

    You will go out through broken walls, each one straight ahead of her, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,” declares the LORD.

27. 4:5

    Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.

28. 4:6

    “I afflicted all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

29. 4:8

    People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

30. 4:9

    “I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

31. 4:10

    “I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

32. 4:11

    “Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

33. 4:12

    “Therefore, that is what I will do to you, O Israel, and since I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!

34. 4:13

    For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”

35. 5:3

    This is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand strong will have but a hundred left, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”

36. 5:4

    For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!

37. 5:6

    Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.

38. 5:8

    He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth—the LORD is His name—

39. 5:14

    Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.

40. 5:15

    Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

41. 5:16

    Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.

42. 5:17

    There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.

43. 5:18

    Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.

44. 5:20

    Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?

45. 5:27

    Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.

46. 6:8

    The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: “I abhor Jacob’s pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”

47. 6:10

    And when the relative who is to burn the bodies picks them up to remove them from the house, he will call to one inside, “Is anyone else with you?” “None,” that person will answer. “Silence,” the relative will retort, “for the name of the LORD must not be invoked.”

48. 6:11

    For the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.”

49. 6:14

    For behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD, the God of Hosts, “and they will oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.”

50. 7:1

    This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.

51. 7:2

    And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”

52. 7:3

    So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.

53. 7:4

    This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.

54. 7:5

    Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”

55. 7:6

    So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.

56. 7:7

    This is what He showed me: Behold, the Lord was standing by a wall true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand.

57. 7:8

    “Amos, what do you see?” asked the LORD. “A plumb line,” I replied. “Behold,” said the Lord, “I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel; I will no longer spare them:

58. 7:15

    But the LORD took me from following the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to My people Israel.’

59. 7:16

    Now, therefore, hear the word of the LORD. You say: ‘Do not prophesy against Israel; do not preach against the house of Isaac.’

60. 7:17

    Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”

61. 8:1

    This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.

62. 8:2

    “Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”

63. 8:3

    “In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”

64. 8:7

    The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.

65. 8:9

    And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.

66. 8:11

    Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.

67. 8:12

    People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.

68. 9:1

    I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.

69. 9:5

    The Lord GOD of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers mourn—all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt—

70. 9:6

    He builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His vault upon the earth. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth. The LORD is His name.

71. 9:7

    “Are you not like the Cushites to Me, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD. “Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Arameans from Kir?

72. 9:8

    Surely the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” declares the LORD.

73. 9:12

    that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that bear My name,” declares the LORD, who will do this.

74. 9:13

    “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow.

75. 9:15

    I will firmly plant them in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land that I have given them,” says the LORD your God.