Amos
by Ken Cayce
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Title:
As with each of the Minor Prophets, the title comes from the name of the
prophet to whom God gave His message (1:1). Amos' name means "burden" or
"burden-bearer". He is not to be confused with Amoz ("stout, strong"), the
father of Isaiah (Isaiah 1:1).
Author - Date:
The author of the prophecy is identified as Amos, a shepherd of Tekoa
(1:1), a small village 10 miles south of Jerusalem. He was the only prophet
to give his occupation before declaring his divine commission.
The prophecy is Amos's great burden from the Lord concerning the national
sin of God's chosen people, as well as the judgment that must fall upon
them unless they repent. No better testimony could be given concerning Amos
than his own (7:14-15): "I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son.
But I was a herdsman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit and the Lord took me
as I followed the flock, and the Lord said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my
people Israel." From his testimony we learn that Amos was not a graduate of
the school of the prophets, nor had he any formal religious training or
academic preparation for the mission to which God called him. Rather, he
was a simple shepherd who also gathered sycamore fruit, and who in
obedience to God was used mightily to deliver God's message of judgment
against Israel, the northern kingdom.
The date of writing is mid-eighth century B.C., during the reigns of
Uzziah, king of Judah (ca. 790 - 739 B.C.), and Jeroboam II, king of Israel
(ca. 793 - 753 B.C.), two years before a memorable earthquake (1:1; compare
Zech. 14:5).
Historical Setting:
Amos provides the historical key for his ministry: the days of Jeroboam the
son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake" (1:1).
Uzziah's independent reign took place in 767-740 B.C., and the sole reign
of Jeroboam II in about 782-753 B.C. Amos was a contemporary of Hosea,
Isaiah, and Jonah. Amos and Hosea were co-workers and may even have gone on
preaching tours through the land together, although Hosea continued his
work after Amos passed from the scene. Isaiah and Micah followed Amos's
ministry and may have heard him preach when they were lads.
We see from 7:10 that Amos's prophecy was issued primarily at Beth-el, the
seat of idolatry in the northern kingdom. He attacks Satan's stronghold,
Bethel, and when he is opposed by the idolatrous priest, Amaziah, he
becomes even bolder in his preaching. Throughout, the prophecy is filled
with references to rural life, indicating Amos's background as a shepherd.
The prophet never put on pretenses. He was what he was, God's messenger for
this hour to call the nation Israel to awaken to her responsibility and
accountability for the national sins she had committed against God. In the
process he shows himself to be an oratorical giant, in spite of the fact
that he had no formal training.
Background - Setting:
Amos was a Judean prophet called to deliver a message primarily to the
northern tribes of Israel (7:15). Politically, it was a time of prosperity
under the long and secure reign of Jeroboam II who, following the example
of his father Joash (2 Kings 13:25), and significantly "restored the border
of Israel" (2 Kings 14:25). It was also a time of peace with both Judah
(5:5), and her more distant neighbors. The ever-present menace of Assyria
was subdued, possibly because of Nineveh's repentance at the preaching of
Jonah (Jonah 3:10). Spiritually however, it was a time of rampant
corruption and moral decay (4:1; 5:10-13; 2 Kings 14:24).
The purpose of Amos's prophecy is to awaken Israel and its surrounding
nations to the fact that the nation is both responsible and accountable for
its sins. His theme then, is national accountability for national sins.
The prophecy of Amos is characterized by great boldness coupled with great
tact. The prophet gains the attention of his audience by pronouncing
judgment on Israel's enemies before delivering the main burden of judgment
against Israel herself. In the delivery of his prophecy he is very
courageous while being unusually stern and severe.
Historical - Theological Themes:
Amos addresses Israel's two primary sins"
(1) An absence of true worship, and
(2) A lack of justice.
In the midst of their ritualistic performance of worship, they were not
pursuing the Lord with their hearts (4:4-5; 5:4-6), nor following His
standard of justice with their neighbors (5:10-13; 6:12). This apostasy,
evidenced by continual, willful rejection of the prophetic message of Amos,
is promised divine judgment. Because of His covenant, however, the Lord
will not abandon Israel altogether, but will bring future restoration to
the righteous remnant (9:7-15).
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Amos 1
Amos Chapter 1
Amos 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."
Amos 1:2 "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 1:3 "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:"
Amos 1:4 "But I will send a fire into the
house of Hazael, which shall devour the
palaces of Ben-hadad."
Amos 1:5 "I will break also the bar of
Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from
the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the
scepter from the house of Eden: and the
people of Syria shall go into captivity
unto Kir, saith the LORD."
Amos 1:6 "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:"
Amos 1:7 "But I will send a fire on the
wall of Gaza, which shall devour the
palaces thereof:"
Amos 1:8 "And I will cut off the inhabitant
from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the
scepter from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine
hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the
Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord
GOD."
Amos 1:9 "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:"
Amos 1:10 "But I will send a fire on the
wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the
palaces thereof."
Amos 1:11 "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:"
Amos 1:12 "But I will send a fire upon
Teman, which shall devour the palaces of
Bozrah."
Amos 1:13 "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:"
Amos 1:14 "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:"
Amos 1:15 "And their king shall go into
captivity, he and his princes together,
saith the LORD."
Amos 2
Amos 2
Amos 2:1 "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:"
Amos 2:2 "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:"
Amos 2:3 "And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will
slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD."
Amos 2:4 "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:"
Amos 2:5 "But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the
palaces of Jerusalem."
Amos 2:6 "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;"
Amos 2:7 "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:"
Amos 2:8 "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."
Amos 2:9 "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."
Amos 2:10 "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."
Amos 2:11 "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."
Amos 2:12 "But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the
prophets, saying, Prophesy not."
Amos 2:13 "Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed [that
is] full of sheaves."
Amos 2:14 "Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the
strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver
himself:"
Amos 2:15 "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."
Amos 2:16 "And [he that is] courageous among the mighty shall flee away
naked in that day, saith the LORD."
Amos 3
Amos Chapter 3
Amos 3:1 "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,"
Amos 3:2 "You only have I known of all the
families of the earth: therefore I will
punish you for all your iniquities."
Amos 3:3 "Can two walk together, except
they be agreed?"
Amos 3:4 "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?"
Amos 3:5 "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?"
Amos 3:6 "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]?"
Amos 3:7 "Surely the Lord GOD will do
nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto
his servants the prophets."
Amos 3:8 "The lion hath roared, who will
not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can
but prophesy?"
Amos 3:9 "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
tumults in the midst thereof, and the
oppressed in the midst thereof."
Amos 3:10 "For they know not to do right,
saith the LORD, who store up violence and
robbery in their palaces."
Amos 3:11 "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."
Amos 3:12 "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."
Amos 3:13 "Hear ye, and testify in the
house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God
of hosts,"
Amos 3:14 "That in the day that I shall
visit the transgressions of Israel upon him
I will also visit the altars of Beth-el:
and the horns of the altar shall be cut
off, and fall to the ground."
Amos 3:15 "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."
Amos 4
Amos Chapter 4
Amos 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 us drink."
Amos 4:2 "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."
Amos 4:3 "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."
Amos 4:4 "Come to Beth-el, and transgress;
at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring
your sacrifices every morning, [and] your
tithes after three years:"
Amos 4:5 "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."
Amos 4:6 "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."
Amos 4:7 "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."
Amos 4:8 "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."
Amos 4:9 "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."
Amos 4:10 "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."
Amos 4:11 "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."
Amos 4:12 "Therefore thus will I do unto
thee, O Israel: [and] because I will do
this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O
Israel."
Amos 4:13 "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."
Amos 5
Amos Chapter 5
Amos 5:1 "Hear ye this word which I take up
against you, [even] a lamentation, O house
of Israel."
Amos 5:2 "The virgin of Israel is fallen;
she shall no more rise: she is forsaken
upon her land; [there is] none to raise her
up."
Amos 5:3 "For thus saith the Lord GOD; The
city that 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."
Amos 5:4 "For thus saith the LORD unto the
house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall
live:"
Amos 5:5 "But seek not Beth-el, nor enter
into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba:
for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,
and Beth-el shall come to nought."
Amos 5:6 "Seek the LORD, and ye shall live;
lest he break out like fire in the house of
Joseph, and devour [it], and [there be]
none to quench [it] in Beth-el."
Amos 5:7 "Ye who turn judgment to wormwood,
and leave off righteousness in the earth,"
Amos 5:8 "[Seek him] that maketh the seven
stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of
death into the morning, and maketh the day
dark with night: that calleth for the
waters of the sea, and poureth them out
upon the face of the earth: The LORD [is]
his name:"
Amos 5:9 "That strengtheneth the spoiled
against the strong, so that the spoiled
shall come against the fortress."
Amos 5:10 "They hate him that rebuketh in
the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh
Uprightly."
Amos 5:11 "Forasmuch therefore as your
treading [is] upon the poor, and ye take
from him burdens of wheat: ye have built
houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not
dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant
vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of
them."
Amos 5:12 "For I know your manifold
transgressions, and your mighty sins: they
afflict the just, they take a bribe, and
they turn aside the poor in the gate [from
their right]."
Amos 5:13 "Therefore the prudent shall keep
silence in that time; for it [is] an evil
time."
Amos 5:14 "Seek good, and not evil, that ye
may live: and so the LORD, the God of
hosts, shall be with you, as ye have
spoken."
Amos 5:15 "Hate the evil, and love the
good, and establish judgment in the gate:
it may be that the LORD God of hosts will
be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph."
Amos 5:16 "Therefore the LORD, the God of
hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing [shall
be] in all streets; and they shall say in
all the highways, Alas! alas! and they
shall call the husbandman to mourning, and
such as are skillful of lamentation to
wailing."
Amos 5:17 "And in all vineyards [shall be]
wailing: for I will pass through thee,
saith the LORD."
Amos 5:18 "Woe unto you that desire the day
of the LORD! to what end [is] it for you?
the day of the LORD [is] darkness, and not
light."
Amos 5:19 "As if a man did flee 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."
Amos 5:20 "[Shall] not the day of the LORD
[be] darkness, and not light? even very
dark, and no brightness in it?"
Amos 5:21 "I hate, I despise your feast
days, and I will not smell in your solemn
assemblies."
Amos 5:22 "Though ye offer me burnt
offerings and your meat offerings, I will
not accept [them]: neither will I regard
the peace offerings of your fat beasts."
Amos 5:23 "Take thou away from me the noise
of thy songs; for I will not hear the
melody of thy viols."
Amos 5:24 "But let judgment run down as
waters, and righteousness as a mighty
stream."
Amos 5:25 "Have ye offered unto me
sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness
forty years, O house of Israel?"
Amos 5:26 "But ye have borne the tabernacle
of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the
star of your god, which ye made to
yourselves."
Amos 5:27 "Therefore will I cause you to go
into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the
LORD, whose name [is] The God of hosts."
Amos 6
Amos Chapter 6
Amos 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!"
Amos 6:2 "Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and
from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then
go down to Gath of the Philistines: [be
they] better than these kingdoms? or their
border greater than your border?"
Amos 6:3 "Ye that put far away the evil
day, and cause the seat of violence to come
near;"
Amos 6:4 "That lie upon beds of ivory, and
stretch themselves upon their couches, and
eat the lambs out of the flock, and the
calves out of the midst of the stall;"
Amos 6:5 "That chant to the sound of the
viol, [and] invent to themselves
instruments of music, like David;"
Amos 6:6 "That drink wine in bowls, and
anoint themselves with the chief ointments:
but they are not grieved for the affliction
of Joseph."
Amos 6:7 "Therefore now shall they go
captive with the first that go captive, and
the banquet of them that stretched
themselves shall be removed."
Amos 6:8 "The Lord GOD hath sworn by
himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I
abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his
palaces: therefore will I deliver up the
city with all that is therein."
Amos 6:9 "And it shall come to pass, if
there remain ten men in one house, that
they shall die."
Amos 6:10 "And a man's uncle shall take him
up, and he that burneth him, to bring out
the bones out of the house, and shall say
unto him that [is] by the sides of the
house, [Is there] yet [any] with thee? and
he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold
thy tongue: for we may not make mention of
the name of the LORD."
Amos 6:11 "For, behold, the LORD
commandeth, and he will smite the great
house with breaches, and the little house
with clefts."
Amos 6:12 "Shall horses run upon the rock?
will [one] plow [there] with oxen? for ye
have turned judgment into gall, and the
fruit of righteousness into hemlock:"
Amos 6:13 "Ye which rejoice in a thing of
nought, which say, Have we not taken to us
horns by our own strength?"
Amos 6:14 "But, behold, I will raise up
against you a nation, O house of Israel,
saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they
shall afflict you from the entering in of
Hemath unto the river of the wilderness."
Amos 7
Amos Chapter 7
Amos 7:1 "Thus hath the Lord GOD showed
unto me; and, behold, he formed
grasshoppers in the beginning of the
shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo,
[it was] the latter growth after the king's
mowings."
Amos 7:2 " 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."
Amos 7:3 "The LORD repented for this: It
shall not be, saith the LORD."
Amos 7:4 "Thus hath the Lord GOD showed
unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called
to contend by fire, and it devoured the
great deep, and did eat up a part."
Amos 7:5 "Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I
beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise?
for he [is] small."
Amos 7:6 "The LORD repented for this: This
also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD."
Amos 7:7 "Thus he showed me: and, behold,
the Lord stood upon a wall [made] by a
plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand."
Amos 7:8 "And the LORD said unto me, Amos,
what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline.
Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a
plumbline in the midst of my people Israel:
I will not again pass by them any more:"
Amos 7:9 "And the high places of Isaac
shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of
Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise
against the house of Jeroboam with the
sword."
Amos 7:10 "Then Amaziah the priest of
Beth-el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel,
saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in
the midst of the house of Israel: the land
is not able to bear all his words."
Amos 7:11 "For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam
shall die by the sword, and Israel shall
surely be led away captive out of their own
land."
Amos 7:12 "Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O
thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land
of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy
there:"
Amos 7:13 "But prophesy not again any more
at Beth-el: for it [is] the king's chapel,
and it [is] the king's court."
Amos 7:14 "Then answered Amos, and said to
Amaziah, I [was] no prophet, neither [was]
I a prophet's son; but I [was] a herdsman,
and a gatherer of sycamore fruit:"
Amos 7:15 "And the LORD took me as I
followed the flock, and the LORD said unto
me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel."
Amos 7:16 "Now therefore hear thou the word
of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not
against Israel, and drop not [thy word]
against the house of Isaac."
Amos 7:17 "Therefore thus saith the LORD;
Thy wife shall be a harlot in the city, and
thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by
the sword, and thy land shall be divided by
line; and thou shalt die in a polluted
land: and Israel shall surely go into
captivity forth of his land."
Amos 8
Amos Chapter 8
Amos 8:1 "Thus hath the Lord GOD showed
unto me: and behold a basket of summer
fruit."
Amos 8:2 "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."
Amos 8:3 "And the songs of the temple shall
be howlings in that day, saith the Lord
GOD: [there shall be] many dead bodies in
every place; they shall cast [them] forth
with silence."
Amos 8:4 "Hear this, O ye that swallow up
the needy, even to make the poor of the
land to fail,"
Amos 8:5 "Saying, When will the new moon be
gone, that we may sell corn? and the
sabbath, that we may set forth wheat,
making the ephah small, and the shekel
great, and falsifying the balances by
deceit?"
Amos 8:6 "That we may buy the poor for
silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;
[yea], and sell the refuse of the wheat?"
Amos 8:7 "The LORD hath sworn by the
excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never
forget any of their works."
Amos 8:8 "Shall not the land tremble for
this, and every one mourn that dwelleth
therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a
flood; and it shall be cast out and
drowned, as [by] the flood of Egypt."
Amos 8:9 "And it shall come to pass in that
day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause
the sun to go down at noon, and I will
darken the earth in the clear day:"
Amos 8:10 "And I will turn your feasts into
mourning, and all your songs into
lamentation; and I will bring up 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."
Amos 8:11 "Behold, the days come, saith 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 words of the
LORD:"
Amos 8:12 "And they shall wander from sea
to sea, and from the north even to the
east, they shall run to and fro to seek the
word of the LORD, and shall not find [it]."
Amos 8:13 "In that day shall the fair
virgins and young men faint for thirst."
Amos 8:14 "They that swear by the sin of
Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth;
and, The manner of Beer-sheba liveth; even
they shall fall, and never rise up again."
Amos 9
Amos Chapter 9
Amos 9:1 "I saw the Lord standing upon the
altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the
door, that the 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."
Amos 9:2 "Though they dig into hell, thence
shall mine hand take them; though they
climb up to heaven, thence will I bring
them down:"
Amos 9:3 "And though they hide themselves
in the top of Carmel, I will search and
take them out thence; and though they be
hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea,
thence will I command the serpent, and he
shall bite them:"
Amos 9:4 "And though they go into captivity
before their enemies, thence will I command
the sword, and it shall slay them: and I
will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and
not for good."
Amos 9:5 "And the Lord GOD of hosts [is] he
that toucheth the land, and it shall melt,
and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and
it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and
shall be drowned, as [by] the flood of
Egypt."
Amos 9:6 "[It is] he that buildeth his
stories in the heaven, and hath founded his
troop in the earth; he that calleth for the
waters of the sea, and poureth them out
upon the face of the earth: The LORD [is]
his name."
Amos 9:7 "[Are] ye not as children of the
Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel?
saith the LORD. Have not I brought up
Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the
Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians
from Kir?"
Amos 9:8 "Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD
[are] upon the sinful kingdom, and I will
destroy it from off the face of the earth;
saving that I will not utterly destroy the
house of Jacob, saith the LORD."
Amos 9:9 "For, lo, I will command, and I
will sift the house of Israel among all
nations, like as [corn] is sifted in a
sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall
upon the earth."
Amos 9:10 "All the sinners of my people
shall die by the sword, which say, The evil
shall not overtake nor prevent us."
Amos 9:11 "In that day will I raise up the
tabernacle of David that is fallen, and
close up the breaches thereof; and I will
raise up his ruins, and I will build it as
in the days of old:"
Amos 9:12 "That they may possess the
remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen,
which are called by my name, saith the LORD
that doeth this."
Amos 9:13 "Behold, the days come, saith the
LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the
reaper, and the treader of grapes him that
soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop
sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt."
Amos 9:14 "And I will bring again the
captivity of my people of Israel, and they
shall build the waste cities, and inhabit
[them]; and they shall plant vineyards, and
drink the wine thereof; they shall also
make gardens, and eat the fruit of them."
Amos 9:15 "And I will plant them upon their
land, and they shall no more be pulled up
out of their land which I have given them,
saith the LORD thy God."
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