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7 “And I will be to them as a lion, as a leopard on the way of Assyria.
8 “I will meet them as a bear that is robbed of her whelps. And I will tear open their chests. And there will I devour them like a lion. The wild beasts shall tear them.
9 “O Israel, one has destroyed you! But in Me is your help.
10 “I will be your King. Where is your king who would help you in all your cities, and your judges of whom you said, ‘Give me a king and princes’?
11 “I gave you a king in My anger. And I took him away in My wrath.
12 “The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up. His sin is hidden.
13 “The sorrows of a woman in labor shall come upon him. He is an unwise son, or else he would not stand still at the time of the breaking forth of the children.
14 “I will redeem them from the power of the grave. I will deliver them from death. O death, I will be your death! O grave, I will be your destruction! Sorrow shall be hidden from My Eyes.”
15 Though he grew up among his brethren, an East wind shall come. The wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness and dry up his vein. And his fountain shall be dried up. He shall plunder the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
14 Samaria shall be desolate. For she has rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword. Their infants shall be dashed in pieces. And their women with child shall be ripped open.
2 O Israel, return to the LORD your God! For you have fallen by your iniquity!
3 Take words with you and turn to the LORD, and say to Him, “Take away all iniquity and receive us graciously. So will we render the calves of our lips.
4 “Assyria shall not save us. Nor will we ride upon horses. Nor will we say anymore to the work of our hands, ‘You are our gods.’ For in You the fatherless finds mercy.”
5 “I will heal their rebellion. I will love them freely. For My anger has turned away from him.
6 “I will be as the dew to Israel. He shall grow as the lily and fasten his roots as the trees of Lebanon.
7 “His branches shall spread. And his beauty shall be as the olive tree and his smell as Lebanon.
8 “Those who dwell under his shadow shall return. They shall revive as grain and flourish as the vine. Their scent shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
9 “Ephraim shall say, ‘What have I to do anymore with idols?’ I shall hear him and look upon him. I am like a green fir tree. Upon Me your fruit is found.
10 “Who is wise and shall understand these things, prudent and shall know them? For the ways of the LORD are righteous and the just shall walk in them. But the wicked shall fall therein.”
1 The Word of the LORD that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel:
2 Hear this, O elders! And listen, all you inhabitants of the land! Has there been such a thing in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
3 Tell your children about it. And let your children tell it to their children, and their children to another generation.
4 That which was left by the gnawing locust the swarming locust has eaten. And the leftovers of the swarming locust the creeping locust has eaten. And the leftovers of the creeping locust the consuming locust has eaten.
5 Awake you drunkards! And weep and howl all you drinkers of wine because of the new wine. For it shall be pulled from your mouth.
6 “Yea, a nation comes upon My land, mighty and without number, whose teeth are like the teeth of a lion. And he has the jaws of a great lion.
7 “He has laid waste My vine and splinters the bark of My fig tree. He makes it bare and casts it down. Its branches are made white.”
8 Mourn like a virgin, girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
9 The Meat Offering and the Drink Offering are cut off from the House of the LORD. The priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn.
10 The field is wasted. The land mourns. For the grain is destroyed. The new wine has dried up, and the oil has decayed.
11 Be ashamed, O farmers! Howl, O you vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished!
12 The vine has dried up. And the fig tree has decayed. The pomegranate tree and the palm tree and the apple tree, all the trees of the field, are withered. Surely, the joy has withered away from the sons of men.”
13 Gird yourselves and lament, you priests. Howl, you ministers of the Altar! Come! Lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God. For the Meat Offering and the Drink Offering are taken away from the House of your God.
14 Sanctify yourself a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders, all the inhabitants of the land, into the House of the LORD your God, and cry to the LORD,
15 “Alas!” For the day, for the day of the LORD is at hand! And it comes as a destruction from the Almighty.
16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes — joy and gladness from the House of our God?
17 The seed is rotten under their clods. The storehouses are destroyed. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.
18 How the beasts mourn! The herds of cattle pine away, because they have no pasture. And the flocks of sheep are destroyed.
19 O LORD! To You will I cry! For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness. And the flame has burnt up all the trees of the field.
20 The beasts of the field also cry to You; for the river of waters have dried up. And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
2 “Blow the trumpet in Zion! And shout on My Holy Mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for the Day of the LORD has come. For it is at hand,
2 “a day of darkness, and of blackness, a day of clouds and obscurity. As the morning spread upon the mountains, so is there a great people, and mighty. There was none like it from the beginning, nor shall there be any after it, until the years of many generations.”
3 A fire devours before them. And behind them a flame burns up. The land is as the Garden of Eden before them. And behind them there is a desolate wilderness, so that nothing shall escape them.
4 Their appearance is like the appearance of horses. And like the horsemen, so shall they run.
5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, as a mighty people prepared to the battle.
6 Before His Face shall the people tremble. All faces shall gather heat.
7 They shall run like strong men and go up to the wall like men of war. And every man shall go forward in his ways. And they shall not stay in their paths.
8 Nor shall one crowd another. Everyone shall walk in his path. And when they fall, they shall not be wounded.
9 They shall run to and fro in the city. They shall run upon the wall. They shall climb up upon the houses and enter in at the windows like the thief.
10 The Earth shall tremble before them. The heavens shall shake. The Sun and the Moon shall be dark. And the stars shall withdraw their shining.
11 And the LORD shall utter His voice before His host. For His host is very great. For he is strong who does His Word. For the Day of the LORD is great and very terrible. And who can abide it?
12 Therefore also, now the LORD says: “Turn yourself to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”
13 And tear your heart and not your clothes. And turn to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and relents from misery.
14 Who knows if He will turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him, a Meat Offering and a Drink Offering to the LORD your God?
15 Blow the trumpet in Zion! Sanctify a fast! Call a solemn assembly.
16 Gather the people. Sanctify the Congregation. Gather the elders. Assemble the children and the nursing infants. Let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her bride chamber.
17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the Porch and the Altar. And let them say, “Spare Your people, O LORD! And do not give Your heritage over to reproach, so that the heathen would rule over them. Why should they say among the people, ‘Where is their God?’”
18 Then will the LORD be jealous over His land and spare His people.
19 Yea, the LORD will answer and say to His people: “Behold, I will send you grain and wine and oil. And you shall be satisfied with it. And I will no longer make you a reproach among the heathen.
20 “But I will remove the Northern army far away from you. And I will drive him into a barren and desolate land, with his face toward the eastern sea, and his back to the western sea. And his stink shall come up. And his corruption shall ascend because he has exalted himself.”
21 Do not fear, O land. Be glad and rejoice! For the LORD will do great things!
22 Do not be afraid, you beasts of the field. For the pastures of the wilderness are green. For the tree bears her fruit. The fig tree and the vine give their strength.
23 Be glad then, you children of Zion! And rejoice in the LORD your God! For He has given you the rain of righteousness. And He will cause the rain to come down for you, the first rain and the latter rain, in the first month.
24 And the barns shall be full of wheat. And the presses shall abound with wine and oil.
25 “And I will render you the years that the locust has eaten — the creeping locust and the consuming locust and the chewing locust — My great host which I sent among you.
26 “So you shall eat and be satisfied and praise the name of the LORD your God, Who has dealt separately with you. And My people shall never be ashamed.
27 “You shall also know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and no other. And My people shall never be ashamed.
28 “And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Your old men shall dream dreams. Your young men shall see visions.
29 “And I will also pour My Spirit upon the servants, and upon the maids in those days.
30 “And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the Earth, blood and fire and pillars of smoke.
31 “The Sun shall be turned into darkness, and the Moon into blood, before the great and awesome Day of the LORD comes.
32 “But whoever shall call on the Name of the LORD shall be saved. For deliverance shall be on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, as the LORD has said, and in the Remnant whom the LORD shall call.”
3 “For behold, in those days and at that time, when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 “I will also gather all nations and will bring them down into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for My people, and for My heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. And they parted My land.
3 “And they have cast lots for My people and have given the child for the harlot. And they sold the girl for wine, so that they might drink.
4 “Yea, and what have you to do with Me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the coasts of Philistia? Will you render Me a recompense? And if you recompense Me, I will swiftly and speedily render your recompense upon your head.
5 “For you have taken My silver and My gold and have carried My precious and pleasant things into your temples.
6 “Also, you have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the Grecians, so that you might send them far from their border.
7 “Behold, I will raise them out of the place where you have sold them and will render your reward upon your own head.
8 “And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah. And they shall send them to the Sabeans, to a people far away.” For the LORD has spoken it.
9 “Publish this among the Gentiles: ‘Prepare war! Wake up the mighty men! Let all the men of war draw near and come up.
10 ‘Break your plowshares into swords, and your scythes into spears. Let the weak say, “I am strong.”
11 ‘Assemble yourselves and come, all you heathen, and gather yourselves together all around.’ There shall the LORD cast down the mighty men.
12 “Let the heathen be awakened and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. For there I will sit to judge all the heathen all around.
13 “Put in your scythes, for the harvest is ripe. Come. Go down. For the winepress is full. Indeed, the winepresses run over, for their wickedness is great.”
14 O multitude! O multitude! Come into the valley of threshing! For the Day of the LORD is near in the valley of threshing!
15 The Sun and Moon shall be darkened. And the stars shall withdraw their light.
16 Also, the LORD shall roar out of Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem. And the heavens and the Earth shall shake. But the LORD will be the hope of His people and the strength of the children of Israel.
17 “So shall you know that I am the LORD your God, dwelling on Zion, My Holy Mountain. Then shall Jerusalem be holy. And no strangers shall go through her anymore.
18 “And on that day, the mountains shall drop down new wine. And the hills shall flow with milk. And all the rivers of Judah shall run with waters. And a fountain shall come forth from the House of the LORD and shall water the Valley of Shittim.
19 “Egypt shall be laid waste. And Edom shall be a desolate wilderness from the injuries of the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 “But Judah shall dwell forever, and Jerusalem, from generation to generation.
21 “For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed. And the LORD will dwell in Zion.”
1 The words of Amos (who was among the herdsmen at Tekoa), which he saw upon Israel in the days of Uzziah, King of Judah; and in the days of Jeroboam (the son of Joash, King of Israel), two years before the earthquake.
2 And he said, “The LORD shall roar from Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem. And the dwelling places of the shepherds shall perish. And the top of Carmel shall wither.
3 “Thus says the LORD: ‘For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn to it. Because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.
4 ‘Therefore I will send a fire into the house of Hazael. And it shall devour the palaces of Ben-Hadad.
5 ‘I will also break the bars of Damascus and cut off the inhabitant of Bikeath-Aven, and he who holds the scepter out of Beth Eden. And the people of Aram shall go into captivity to Kir,’ says the LORD.
6 “Thus says the LORD: ‘For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn to it. Because they carried away the whole captivity as prisoners, to shut them up in Edom.
7 ‘Therefore I will send a fire upon the walls of Gaza. And it shall devour the palaces thereof.
8 ‘And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and he who holds the scepter from Ashkelon, and turn My hand to Ekron. And the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,’ says the LORD God.
9 “Thus says the LORD: ‘For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn to it. Because they shut the whole captivity in Edom. And have not remembered the brotherly covenant.
10 ‘Therefore I will send a fire upon the walls of Tyre. And it shall devour the palaces thereof.’
11 “Thus says the LORD: ‘For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn to it. Because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity. And his anger spoiled him evermore. And his wrath watched him always.
12 ‘Therefore I will send a fire upon Teman. And it shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.’
13 “Thus says the LORD: ‘For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn to it. Because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border.
14 ‘Therefore I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah. And it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle; with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind.
15 ‘And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together,’ says the LORD." Against Moab, Judah, and Israel.
2 “Thus says the LORD: ‘For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn to it, because it burnt the bones of the king of Edom into lime.
2 ‘Therefore I will send a fire upon Moab. And it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth. And Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of a trumpet.
3 ‘And I will cut off the judge out of the midst thereof; and will slay all the princes thereof with him,’ says the LORD.
4 “Thus says the LORD: ‘For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn to it. Because they have cast away the Law of the LORD and have not kept His Commandments. And their lies caused them to err, after which their fathers have walked.
5 ‘Therefore I will send a fire upon Judah. And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.’
6 “Thus says the LORD: ‘For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn to it. Because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for shoes.
7 ‘They gape over the head of the poor, in the dust of the Earth, and pervert the ways of the meek. And a man and his father will go in to a maid, to dishonor My Holy Name.
8 ‘And they lie down by every altar, upon pledged clothes. And they drink the wine of the condemned in the House of their God.
9 ‘Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them. Whose height was like the height of the cedars. And he was strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his root from beneath.
10 ‘Also, I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
11 ‘And I raised up of your sons for Prophets, and your young men for Nazirites. Is it not even so, O children of Israel,’ says the LORD?
12 ‘But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the Prophets, saying, “Do not Prophesy.”
13 ‘Behold, I am pressed under you as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
14 ‘Therefore, the flight shall perish from the swift. And the strong shall not strengthen his force. Nor shall the mighty save his life;
15 ‘nor shall he who handles the bow stand. And he who is swift of foot shall not escape. Nor shall he who rides the horse save his life.
16 ‘And he who is of a mighty courage among the strong men shall flee away naked on that day,’ says the LORD.”
3 Hear this Word that the LORD pronounces against you, O children of Israel; against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,
2 “You only have I known of all the families of the Earth. Therefore, I will punish you for all your iniquities.
3 “Can two walk together unless they are agreed?
4 “Will a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Or will a young lion cry out of his den if he has captured nothing?
5 “Can a bird fall into a snare upon the Earth if there is no lure? Or will a snare spring up from the Earth, having caught nothing at all?
6 “Or, shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? Or shall there be evil in a city and the LORD has not done it?”
7 Surely the LORD God will do nothing unless He reveals His secret to His servants, the Prophets.
8 The lion has roared! Who will not be afraid? The LORD God has spoken! Who can but prophesy?
9 “Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod; and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, ‘Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria. See the great tumults in the midst thereof; and the oppressed in the midst thereof.’
10 “For they do not know to do right,” says the LORD, “They store up violence and robbery in their palaces.”
11 Therefore, thus says the LORD God: “An adversary shall come, spreading all around the country; and shall bring down your strength from you. And your palaces shall be plundered.”
12 Thus says the LORD: “As the shepherd takes two legs out of the mouth of the lion, or a piece of an ear, so shall the children of Israel, who dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, be taken out; and in Damascus, as in a couch.
13 “Hear, and testify in the house of Jacob,” says the LORD God, the God of hosts,
14 “Surely, on the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel. And the horns of the altar shall be broken off and fall to the ground.
15 “And I will strike the winter house along with the summer house. And the houses of ivory shall perish. And the great houses shall be consumed,” says the LORD. Against the governors of Samaria.
4 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria; who oppress the poor, destroy the needy; and they say to their masters, “Bring, and let us drink!”
2 The LORD God has sworn by His holiness, “Lo, the days shall come upon you in which He will take you away with thorns, and your posterity with fishhooks.
3 “And you shall go out at the wall’s breaches, everyone forward. And you shall cast yourselves out of the palace,” says the LORD.
4 “Come to Bethel, and transgress; to Gilgal, and multiply transgression. And bring your sacrifices in the morning; and your riches after three years.
5 “And offer a thanksgiving of leaven; publish and proclaim the free offerings. For this you love, O children of Israel,” says the LORD God.
6 “Also, I have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and scarceness of bread in all your places. Yet, you have not returned to Me,” says the LORD.
7 “And also, I have withheld the rain from you, when there were still three months to the harvest. And I caused it to rain upon one city and have not caused it to rain upon another city. One piece was rained upon. And the piece whereupon it did not rain, withered.
8 “So, two or three cities wandered to one city to drink water. But they were not satisfied. Still, you have not returned to Me,” says the LORD.
9 “I have struck you with blight and mildew. Your great gardens and your vineyards, and your fig trees, and your olive trees, the locust devoured. Still, you have not returned to Me,” says the LORD.
10 “I have sent pestilence among you after the manner of Egypt. Your young men I have killed with the sword; and have taken away your horses. And I have made the stink of your tents to come up into your nostrils. Still, you have not returned to Me,” says the LORD.
11 “I have overthrown you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. And you were as a firebrand, plucked out of the burning. Still, you have not returned to Me,” says the LORD.
12 “Therefore, I will do this to you, O Israel. And because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel.”
13 For lo, He Who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is His thought; Who makes the morning darkness, and walks upon the high places of the Earth. The LORD God of Hosts is His Name. A lamentation for the captivity of Israel.
5 Hear this Word which I lift up upon you; a lamentation of the House of Israel.
2 The virgin Israel has fallen and shall rise no more. She is left upon her land, and there is none to raise her up.
3 For thus says the LORD God: “The city which went out by a thousand, shall leave a hundred. And that which went forth by a hundred, shall leave ten to the House of Israel.”
4 For thus says the LORD to the House of Israel: “Seek Me, and you shall live.”
5 But do not seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal. And do not go to Beersheba. For Gilgal shall go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to naught.
6 Seek the LORD, and you shall live, lest He break out like fire in the House of Joseph and devour it; and there are none to quench it in Bethel.
7 They turn judgment to wormwood and leave off righteousness in the Earth.
8 He makes Pleiades and Orion; and He turns the shadow of death into the morning; and He makes the day dark as night. He calls the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the open earth. The LORD is His Name.
9 He strengthens the destroyer against the mighty. And the destroyer shall come against the fortress.
10 They have hated him who rebukes in the gate. And they abhorred him who speaks uprightly.
11 Forasmuch, then, as your treading is upon the poor—and you take from him burdens of wheat—you have built houses of hewn stone. But you shall not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine from them.
12 For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins. They afflict the just. They take rewards. And they oppress the poor in the gate.
13 Therefore, the prudent shall keep silence in that time. For it is an evil time.
14 Seek good, and not evil, that you may live. And the LORD God of Hosts shall be with you, as you have spoken.
15 Hate the evil and love the good. And establish judgment in the gate. It may be that the LORD God of Hosts will be merciful to the remnant of Joseph.
16 Therefore, the LORD God of Hosts, the LORD, says this, “Mourning shall be in all streets. And they shall say in all the high ways, ‘Alas, alas.’ And they shall call the farmer to lamentation; and such as can mourn, to mourning.
17 “And in all the vines shall be lamentation. For I will pass through you,” says the LORD.
18 Woe to you who desire the Day of the LORD! What have you to do with it? The Day of the LORD is darkness and not light.
19 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall and a serpent bit him.
20 Shall not the Day of the LORD be darkness, and not light; even darkness and no light in it?
21 “I hate and abhor your feast days. And I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
22 “Though you offer Me burnt offerings and meat offerings, I will not accept them. Nor will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
23 “Take away from Me the multitude of your songs (for I will not hear the melody of your viols.)
24 “And let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty river.
25 “Have you offered to Me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O House of Israel?
26 “But you have born Sikkuth, your king, and Chiun, your images, and the star of your gods which you made to yourselves.
27 “Therefore, will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose Name is the God of Hosts. Against the princes of Israel living in pleasure.
6 Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria; who were famous at the beginning of the nations. And the House of Israel came to them.
2 Go to Calneh and see. And from there go to Hamath the Great. Then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms? Or is the border of their land greater than your border,
3 you who put far away the evil day, and approach the seat of iniquity?
4 They lie upon beds of ivory and stretch themselves upon their beds; and eat the lambs of the flock and the calves out of the stall.
5 They sing to the sound of the viol. They invent to themselves instruments of music, like David.
6 They drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with the chief ointments but are not sorry for the affliction of Joseph.
7 Therefore, they shall now go captive with the first who go captive. And the sorrow of those who stretched themselves is at hand.
8 “The LORD God has sworn by Himself,” says the LORD God of Hosts, “I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces. Therefore, I will deliver up the city with all that is therein.
9 “And if there remain ten men in one house, they shall die.
10 “And his uncle shall take him up and burn him—to carry out the bones out of the house—and shall say to him who is by the sides of the house, ‘Is there still anyone with you?’ And he shall say, ‘None.’ Then he shall say, ‘Hold your tongue. For we may not remember the Name of the LORD.’”
11 For behold, the LORD commands. And He will strike the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
12 Shall horses run upon the rock? Or will one plow there with oxen? For you have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood.
13 Yet, you rejoice over nothing. You say, “Have we not gotten horns by our own strength?”
14 “But behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O House of Israel,” says the LORD God of Hosts. “And they shall afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the river of the wilderness.”
7 Thus has the LORD God showed to me. And behold, He formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth. And lo, it was in the latter growth, after the king’s mowing.
2 And when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, “O LORD God, spare, I beg You. Who shall raise up Jacob? For he is small.”
3 So the LORD repented for this. “It shall not be,” said the LORD.
4 Thus has the LORD God showed to me. And behold, the LORD God called to judgment by fire. And it devoured the great deep and ate up a part.
5 Then I said, “O LORD God! Cease, I beg You. Who shall raise up Jacob? For he is small.”
6 So the LORD repented for this. “This also shall not be,” said the LORD God.
7 Thus He showed me. And behold, the LORD stood upon a wall made by plumbline, with a plumbline in His hand.
8 And the LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumbline.” Then said the LORD, “Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of My people, Israel, and will pass by them no more.
9 “And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate. And the temples of Israel shall be destroyed. And I will rise against the House of Jeroboam with the sword.”
10 Then, Amaziah, the Priest of Bethel, sent to Jeroboam, King of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the House of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.
11 “For thus Amos says, ‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword. And Israel shall be led away captive out of their own land.’”
12 Also, Amaziah said to Amos, “O you, the Seer! Go! Flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread. And prophesy there.
13 “But prophesy no more at Bethel. For it is the king’s chapel. And it is the king’s court.”
14 Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, “I was no Prophet. Nor was I a Prophet’s son. But I was a herdsman, and a gatherer of wild figs.
15 “And the LORD took me as I followed the flock. And the LORD said to me, ‘Go. Prophesy to My people, Israel.’
16 “Now, therefore, hear the Word of the LORD. You say, ‘Do not Prophesy against Israel, and speak nothing against the House of Isaac.’
17 “Therefore, thus says the LORD: “Your wife shall be a harlot in the city. And your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword. And your land shall be divided by plumbline. And you shall die in a polluted land. And Israel shall surely go forth into captivity in this land.”
8 Thus has the LORD God shown to me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit.
2 And He said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then said the LORD to me, “The end has come upon my people of Israel. I will pass by them no more.
3 “And the songs of the Temple shall be howlings on that day,” said the LORD God. “Many dead bodies shall be in every place. They shall cast them forth with silence.”
4 “Hear this, O you who swallow up the poor and may make the needy of the land fail,
5 saying, ‘When will the new month be gone, that we may sell corn; and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat and make the ephah small and the shekel great and falsify the weights by deceit?
6 ‘That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat.’”
7 The LORD has sworn by the excellency of Jacob, “Surely, I will never forget any of their works.
8 “Shall not the land tremble for this; and everyone mourn who dwells therein? And it shall rise up, wholly as a flood, and it shall be cast out and drowned as by the flood of Egypt.
9 “And on that day,” says the LORD God, “I will even cause the Sun to go down at noon. I will darken the Earth in the clear day.
10 “And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation. And I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head. And I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
11 “Behold, the days come,” says the LORD God, “that I will send a famine in the land; not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the Word of the LORD.
12 “And they shall wander from sea to sea. And from the north even to the east shall they run to and fro, to seek the Word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
13 “On that day shall the fair virgins and the young men perish for thirst.
14 “Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and who say, ‘Your God, O Dan, lives!” and, “The manner of Beersheba lives!” even they shall fall and never rise up again.
9 I saw the LORD standing upon the Altar. And He said, “Strike the lintel of the door, so that the posts may shake. And cut them in pieces, even the heads of them all. And I will kill the last of them with the sword. He who flees from them shall not flee away. And he who escapes from them shall not be delivered.
2 “Though they dig into Hell, there shall My hand take them. Though they climb up to Heaven, there will I bring them down.
3 “And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there. And though they are hidden from My sight in the bottom of the sea, there will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them.
4 “And although they go into captivity before their enemies, there will I command the sword, and it shall slay them. And I will set My eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.”
5 And the LORD God of Hosts shall touch the land, and it shall melt away. And all who dwell therein shall mourn. And it shall rise up wholly like a flood and shall be drowned as by the flood of Egypt.
6 He builds His steps in the heaven; and has laid the foundation of His globe of elements in the earth. He calls the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the open earth. The LORD is His Name.
7 “Are you not as the Ethiopians to me, O children of Israel?” says the LORD. “Have I not brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt; and the Philistines from Caphtor and Aram from Kir?
8 “Behold, the eyes of the LORD God are upon the sinful kingdom. And I will destroy it clean out of the Earth. Nevertheless, I will not utterly destroy the House of Jacob,” says the LORD.
9 “For lo, I will command, and I will sift the House of Israel among all nations, as in a sieve. Still, the least stone shall not fall upon the Earth.
10 “But all the sinners of My people who say, ‘The evil shall not come or hasten for us,” shall die by the sword.
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