Amos
Chapter 1
1: 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.
2: 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.
Amos
Chapter 2
1: Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn awaythe punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom intolime:
2: 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:
3: And I will cut off th ...
Amos
Chapter 3
1: Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against thewhole 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, except they be agreed?
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Chapter 4
1: 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 usdrink.
2: 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.
3: And ye shall go out at the ......More in This Amos Book
Amos
Chapter 5
1: Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
2: The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
3: For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, t ......More in This Amos Book
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Chapter 6
1: Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!
2: Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: bethey better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?
3: Ye that put f ......More in This Amos Book
Amos
Chapter 7
1: Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growthafter the king's mowings.
2: And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
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Amos
Chapter 8
1: Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
2: And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
3: And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall b ......More in This Amos Book
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Chapter 9
1: I saw the LORD standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, thatthe posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.
2: Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence wi ......More in This Amos Book