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Amos
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3 4
| The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of
Tekoa, which he saw concerning 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. |
| And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter
his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall
mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither. |
| Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of
Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: |
| But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael,
which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad. |
| I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off
the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre
from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity
unto Kir, saith the LORD. |
| Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of
Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because
they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to
Edom: |
| But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which
shall devour the palaces thereof: |
| And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and
him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand
against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith
the Lord GOD. |
| Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of
Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered
not the brotherly covenant: |
| But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which
shall devour the palaces thereof. |
| Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of
Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because
he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and
his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever: |
| But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall
devour the palaces of Bozrah. |
| Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the
children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment
thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead,
that they might enlarge their border: |
| But 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: |
| And their king shall go into captivity, he and his
princes together, saith the LORD. |
| Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of
Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because
he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime: |
| But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall
devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with
shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet: |
| And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof,
and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD. |
| Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of
Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his
commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their
fathers have walked: |
| But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall
devour the palaces of Jerusalem. |
| Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of
Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of
shoes; |
| That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of
the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father
will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name: |
| And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to
pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the
house of their god. |
| Yet destroyed I 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 roots from beneath. |
| 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. |
| And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of
your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of
Israel? saith the LORD. |
| But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and
commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not. |
| Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed
that is full of sheaves. |
| Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift,
and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty
deliver himself: |
| Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he
that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that
rideth the horse deliver himself. |
| And he that is courageous among the mighty shall
flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD. |
| Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against
you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up
from the land of Egypt, saying, |
| You only have I known of all the families of the
earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. |
| Can two walk together, except they be agreed? |
| Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no
prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing? |
| Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no
gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken
nothing at all? |
| Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people
not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done
it? |
| Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he
revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. |
| The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord
GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy? |
| 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 tumults in the midst thereof, and the
oppressed in the midst thereof. |
| For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who
store up violence and robbery in their palaces. |
| Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary
there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy
strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled. |
| Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of
the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the
children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a
bed, and in Damascus in a couch. |
| Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith
the Lord GOD, the God of hosts, |
| That in 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 cut off, and fall to the
ground. |
| And I will smite the winter house with the summer
house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall
have an end, saith the LORD. |
| Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the
mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which
say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink. |
| The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the
days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your
posterity with fishhooks. |
| 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. |
| Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply
transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes
after three years: |
| And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and
proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye
children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD. |
| And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all
your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not
returned unto me, saith the LORD. |
| And also I have withholden the rain from you, when
there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon
one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was
rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. |
| So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to
drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto
me, saith the LORD. |
| I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your
gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees
increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me,
saith the LORD. |
| I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner
of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away
your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your
nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. |
| I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom
and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet
have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. |
| Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and
because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. |
| For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth
the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the
morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The
LORD, The God of hosts, is his name |
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