\v 1 These are the things concerning Israel that Amos, one of the shepherds in Tekoa, received in revelation. He received these things in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and also in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
\v 10 When a man's relative comes to take their bodies up—the one who is to cremate them after bringing the corpses out of the house—if he says to the person in the house, "Is there anyone with you?" What if that person says, "No." Then he will say, "Be quiet, for we must not mention Yahweh's name."
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\v 11 For, look, Yahweh will give a command,
\q and the big house will be smashed to pieces,
\q and the little house to bits.
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\v 12 Do horses run on the rocky cliffs?
\q Does one plow there with oxen?
\q Yet you have turned justice into poison
\q and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness.
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\v 13 You who rejoice over Lo Debar,
\q who say, "Have we not taken Karnaim by our own strength?"
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\v 14 "But look, I will raise up against you a nation,
\q house of Israel—this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh, the God of hosts.
\v 1 This is what the Lord Yahweh showed me. Look, he formed a locust swarm when the spring crop began to come up, and, look, it was the late crop after the king's harvest.
\v 2 When they finished eating the vegetation of the land, then I said, "Lord Yahweh, please forgive; how will Jacob survive? For he is so small."
\v 3 Yahweh relented concerning this. "It will not happen," he said.
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\v 4 This is what the Lord Yahweh showed me: Look, the Lord Yahweh called on fire to judge. It dried the vast, deep water under the earth and would have devoured the land, also.
\v 5 But I said, "Lord Yahweh, please stop; how will Jacob survive? For he is so small."
\v 6 Yahweh relented concerning this, "This also will not happen," said the Lord Yahweh.
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\v 7 This is what he showed me: Look, the Lord stood beside a wall, with a plumb line in his hand.
\v 8 Yahweh said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "Look, I will put a plumb line among my people Israel. I will spare them no longer.
\v 10 Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent a message to Jeroboam, king of Israel: "Amos has conspired against you in the middle of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words.
\v 1 This is what the Lord Yahweh showed me. Look, a basket of summer fruit!
\v 2 He said, "What do you see, Amos?" I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then Yahweh said to me,
\q "The end has come for my people Israel;
\q I will spare them no longer.
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\v 3 The songs of the temple will become wailings in that day
\q —this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh—
\q many dead bodies, they are thrown everywhere!
\q Silence!"
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\v 4 Listen to this, you who trample the needy
\q and remove the poor of the land.
\v 5 They say,
\q "When will the new moon be over,
\q so we can sell grain again?
\q When will the Sabbath day be over,
\q so that we can sell wheat?
\q We will make the measure small
\q and increase the price,
\q as we cheat with false scales.
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\v 6 This is so we can sell bad wheat, buy the poor with silver,
\q and the needy for a pair of sandals."
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\v 7 Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, "Surely I will never forget any of their actions."
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\v 8 Will not the land quake for this,
\q and every one who lives in it mourn?
\q All of it will rise up like the Nile River,
\q and it will be tossed about and sink again,
\q like the river of Egypt.
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\v 9 "It will come in that day
\q —this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh—
\q that I will make the sun set at noon,
\q and I will darken the earth at daylight.
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\v 10 I will turn your festivals into mourning
\q and all your songs into lamentation.
\q I will make all of you wear sackcloth
\q and have baldness on every head.
\q I will make it like mourning for an only son,
\q and a bitter day to its end.
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\v 11 Look, the days are coming
\q —this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh—
\q when I will send a famine in the land,
\q not a famine for bread,
\q nor of thirst for water,
\q but for hearing the words of Yahweh.
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\v 12 They will stagger from sea to sea;
\q they will run from the north to the east
\q to seek the word of Yahweh,
\q but they will not find it.
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\v 13 In that day the beautiful virgins
\q and the young men will faint from thirst.
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\v 14 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria
\f + \ft Instead of \fqa the sin of Samaria \fqa* , some versions have \fqa Ashimah of Samaria. Ashimah was the name of a pagan goddess worshiped in some parts of Syria \f*
\q and say, 'As your god lives, Dan,'
\q and, 'As the way to Beersheba exists'—
\f + \ft The Hebrew text has \fqa As the way to Beersheba exists \fqa* , where this might refer to what people going to worship Beersheba's idols might have said. However, some versions want to change the Hebrew text to read \fqa As the loved one of Beersheba lives. \fqa* Here "loved one" stands for an idol worshiped in Beersheba. \f*
\q they will fall and never rise again."
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\v 1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, "Strike the tops of the pillars so that the foundations will shake.
\q Break them in pieces on all of their heads,
\q and I will kill the last of them with the sword.
\q Not one of them will get away,
\q not one of them will escape.
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\v 2 Though they dig into Sheol,
\q there my hand will take them.
\q Though they climb up to heaven,
\q there I will bring them down.
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\v 3 Though they hide on the top of Carmel,
\q there I will search and take them.
\q Though they are hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea,
\q there will I give orders to the serpent, and it will bite them.
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\v 4 Though they go into captivity, driven by their enemies before them,
\q there will I give orders to the sword, and it will kill them.
\q I will keep my eyes on them for harm and not for good."
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\v 5 The Lord Yahweh of hosts
\q touches the land and it melts;
\q all who live in it mourn;
\q all of it will rise up like the River,
\q and sink again like the river of Egypt.
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\v 6 It is he who builds his steps in the heavens,
\q and has established his vault over the earth.
\q He calls for the waters of the sea,
\q and pours them out on the surface of the earth,
\q Yahweh is his name.
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\v 7 "Are you not like the people of Cush to me,
\q people of Israel?
\q —this is Yahweh's declaration.
\q Did I not bring up Israel out of the land of Egypt,
\q the Philistines from Crete,
\q and the Arameans from Kir?
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\v 8 Look, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom,
\q and I will destroy it from the face of the earth,
\q except that I will not totally destroy the house of Jacob
\q —this is Yahweh's declaration.
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\v 9 Look, I will give a command,
\q and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations,
\q as one shakes grain in a sieve,
\q so that not the smallest stone will fall to the ground.
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\v 10 All the sinners of my people will die by the sword,
\q those who say, 'Disaster will not overtake or meet us.'
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\v 11 In that day I will raise up the tent of David that has fallen,
\q and close up its breaches.
\q I will raise up its ruins,
\q and rebuild it as in the days of old,
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\v 12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom,
\q and all the nations that are called by my name
\q —this is Yahweh's declaration—he does this.
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\v 13 Look, the days will come—this is Yahweh's declaration—
\q when the plowman will overtake the reaper,
\q and the treader of grapes will overtake him who plants seed.
\q The mountains will drip sweet wine,
\q and all the hills will flow with it.
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\v 14 I will bring back from captivity my people Israel.
\q They will build the ruined cities and inhabit them,
\q they will plant vineyards and drink their wine,
\q and they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
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\v 15 I will plant them upon their land,
\q and they will never again be uprooted from the land
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