The Book of AMOS - Chapter Three

 

 1 Hear this word, people of Israel, the word the Lord has spoken against you – against the whole family I brought up out of Egypt:

2 

‘You only have I chosen

    of all the families of the earth;

therefore I will punish you

    for all your sins.’

3 

Do two walk together

    unless they have agreed to do so?

4 

Does a lion roar in the thicket

    when it has no prey?

Does it growl in its den

    when it has caught nothing?

5 

Does a bird swoop down to a trap on the ground

    when no bait is there?

Does a trap spring up from the ground

    if it has not caught anything?

6 

When a trumpet sounds in a city,

    do not the people tremble?

When disaster comes to a city,

    has not the Lord caused it?

7 

Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing

    without revealing his plan

    to his servants the prophets.

8 

The lion has roared –

    who will not fear?

The Sovereign Lord has spoken –

    who can but prophesy?

9 

Proclaim to the fortresses of Ashdod

    and to the fortresses of Egypt:

‘Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria;

    see the great unrest within her

    and the oppression among her people.’

10 

‘They do not know how to do right,’ declares the Lord,

    ‘who store up in their fortresses

    what they have plundered and looted.’

 11 Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says:

‘An enemy will overrun your land,

    pull down your strongholds

    and plunder your fortresses.’

 12 This is what the Lord says:

‘As a shepherd rescues from the lion’s mouth

    only two leg bones or a piece of an ear,

so will the Israelites living in Samaria be rescued,

    with only the head of a bed

    and a piece of fabric from a couch.’

 13 ‘Hear this and testify against the descendants of Jacob,’ declares the Lord, the Lord God Almighty.

14 

‘On the day I punish Israel for her sins,

    I will destroy the altars of Bethel;

the horns of the altar will be cut off

    and fall to the ground.

15 

I will tear down the winter house

    along with the summer house;

the houses adorned with ivory will be destroyed

    and the mansions will be demolished,’

declares the Lord.

 

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The Book of AMOS - Chapter Two

 
 

1 This is what the Lord says:

‘For three sins of Moab,

    even for four, I will not relent.

Because he burned to ashes

    the bones of Edom’s king,

2 

I will send fire on Moab

    that will consume the fortresses of Kerioth.

Moab will go down in great tumult

    amid war cries and the blast of the trumpet.

3 

I will destroy her ruler

    and kill all her officials with him,’

says the Lord.

4 This is what the Lord says:

‘For three sins of Judah,

    even for four, I will not relent.

Because they have rejected the law of the Lord

    and have not kept his decrees,

because they have been led astray by false gods,

    the gods their ancestors followed,

5 

I will send fire on Judah

    that will consume the fortresses of Jerusalem.’

6 This is what the Lord says:

‘For three sins of Israel,

    even for four, I will not relent.

They sell the innocent for silver,

    and the needy for a pair of sandals.

7 

They trample on the heads of the poor

    as on the dust of the ground

    and deny justice to the oppressed.

Father and son use the same girl

    and so profane my holy name.

8 

They lie down beside every altar

    on garments taken in pledge.

In the house of their god

    they drink wine taken as fines.

9 

‘Yet I destroyed the Amorites before them,

    though they were tall as the cedars

    and strong as the oaks.

I destroyed their fruit above

    and their roots below.

10 

I brought you up out of Egypt

    and led you for forty years in the wilderness

    to give you the land of the Amorites.

11 

‘I also raised up prophets from among your children

    and Nazirites from among your youths.

Is this not true, people of Israel?’

declares the Lord.

12 

‘But you made the Nazirites drink wine

    and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.

13 

‘Now then, I will crush you

    as a cart crushes when loaded with grain.

14 

The swift will not escape,

    the strong will not muster their strength,

    and the warrior will not save his life.

15 

The archer will not stand his ground,

    the fleet-footed soldier will not get away,

    and the horseman will not save his life.

16 

Even the bravest warriors

    will flee naked on that day,’

declares the Lord.

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