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Amos · read by Brian Long
22 verses, in order. Only the verses Brian read aloud are shown.
Amos 4
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Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, "Bring us more to drink."Read from KJV · Prepare to Meet Your God
2
The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: "Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.Read from KJV · Prepare to Meet Your God
3
You will go out through broken walls, each one straight ahead of her, and you will be cast out toward Harmon, " declares the LORD.Read from KJV · Prepare to Meet Your God
4
"Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.Read from KJV · Prepare to Meet Your God
5
Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do," declares the Lord GOD.Read from KJV · Prepare to Meet Your God
6
"I beset all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · Prepare to Meet Your God
7
"I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.Read from KJV · Prepare to Meet Your God
8
People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · Prepare to Meet Your God
9
"I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · Prepare to Meet Your God
10
"I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · Prepare to Meet Your God
11
"Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · Prepare to Meet Your God
12
"Therefore, that is what I will do to you, O Israel, and since I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!Read from KJV · Prepare to Meet Your God
13
For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth— the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name."Read from KJV · Prepare to Meet Your God
Amos 5
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"I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.Read from KJV · Prepare to Meet Your God
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Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.Read from KJV · Prepare to Meet Your God
23
Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.Read from KJV · Prepare to Meet Your God
Amos 7
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"I was not a prophet," Amos replied, "nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees.Read from KJV · Prepare to Meet Your God
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But the LORD took me from following the flock and said to me, 'Go, prophesy to My people Israel.'Read from KJV · Prepare to Meet Your God
Amos 8
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Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,Read from KJV · Prepare to Meet Your God
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asking, "When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.Read from KJV · Prepare to Meet Your God
11
Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.Read from KJV · Answering The Call
12
People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.Read from KJV · Answering The Call