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Amos · read by David Guzik
125 verses, in order. Only the verses David read aloud are shown.
Amos 1
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These are the words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of Tekoa—what he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, in the days when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel.Read from KJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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He said: "The LORD roars from Zion and raises His voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the summit of Carmel withers."Read from ESV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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This is what the LORD says: "For three transgressions of Damascus, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they threshed Gilead with sledges of iron.Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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So I will send fire upon the house of Hazael to consume the citadels of Ben-hadad.Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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I will break down the gates of Damascus; I will cut off the ruler of the Valley of Aven and the one who wields the scepter in Beth-eden. The people of Aram will be exiled to Kir," says the LORD.Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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This is what the LORD says: "For three transgressions of Gaza, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they exiled a whole population, delivering them up to Edom.Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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I will cut off the ruler of Ashdod and the one who wields the scepter in Ashkelon. I will turn My hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines will perish," says the Lord GOD.Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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This is what the LORD says: "For three transgressions of Tyre, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they delivered up a whole congregation of exiles to Edom and broke a covenant of brotherhood.Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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So I will send fire upon the walls of Tyre to consume its citadels."Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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This is what the LORD says: "For three transgressions of Edom, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and stifled all compassion; his anger raged continually, and his fury flamed incessantly.Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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So I will send fire upon Teman to consume the citadels of Bozrah."Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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This is what the LORD says: "For three transgressions of the Ammonites, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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So I will kindle a fire in the walls of Rabbah to consume its citadels amid war cries on the day of battle and a violent wind on the day of tempest.Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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Their king will go into exile — he and his princes together," says the LORD.Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
Amos 2
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This is what the LORD says: "For three transgressions of Moab, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he burned to lime the bones of Edom's king.Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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So I will send fire against Moab to consume the citadels of Kerioth. Moab will die in tumult, amid war cries and the sound of the ram's horn.Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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I will cut off the ruler of Moab and kill all the officials with him," says the LORD.Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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This is what the LORD says: "For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked.Read from NKJV · Amos 9:13
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This is what the LORD says: "For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals.Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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And I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, that you might take possession of the land of the Amorite.Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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I raised up prophets from your sons and Nazirites from your young men. Is this not true, O children of Israel?" declares the LORD.Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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"But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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Behold, I am about to crush you in your place as with a cart full of grain.Read from NKJV · Amos 9:13
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Escape will fail the swift, the strong will not prevail by his strength, and the mighty will not save his life.Read from NKJV · Amos 9:13
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The archer will not stand his ground, the fleet of foot will not escape, and the horseman will not save his life.Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
Amos 3
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Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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"Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities."Read from ESV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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Can two walk together without agreeing where to go?Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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Does a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Does a young lion growl in his den if he has caught nothing?Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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The lion has roared— who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken— who will not prophesy?Read from NASB1995 · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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Proclaim to the citadels of Ashdod and to the citadels of Egypt: "Assemble on the mountains of Samaria; see the great unrest in the city and the acts of oppression in her midst."Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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"For they know not how to do right," declares the LORD. "They store up violence and destruction in their citadels."Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: "An enemy will surround the land; he will pull down your strongholds and plunder your citadels."Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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This is what the LORD says: "As the shepherd snatches from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites dwelling in Samaria will be rescued having just the corner of a bed or the cushion of a couch.Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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Hear and testify against the house of Jacob, declares the Lord GOD, the God of Hosts.Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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On the day I punish Israel for their transgressions, I will visit destruction on the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off, and they will fall to the ground.Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end," declares the LORD.Read from NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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 NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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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 NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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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 NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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"Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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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 NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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"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 NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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"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 NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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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 NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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"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 NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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"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 NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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"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 ESV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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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 NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
Amos 5
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"Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up."Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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This is what the Lord GOD says: "The city that marches out a thousand strong will only see a hundred return, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel."Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: "Seek Me and live!Read from ESV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth— the LORD is His name—Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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He flashes destruction on the strong, so that fury comes upon the stronghold.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph."Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: "There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of 'Alas! Alas!' in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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"I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.Read from NKJV · Ploughman And The Reaper
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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 NKJV · Amos 9:13
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Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus," says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
Amos 6
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Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: "I abhor Jacob's pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it."Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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And if there are ten men left in one house, they too will die.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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For the LORD gives a command: "The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble."Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
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For behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel," declares the LORD, the God of Hosts, "and they will oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah."Read from NKJV · (Amos) Yet You Have Not Returned to Me
Amos 7
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This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king's harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, "Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?"Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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So the LORD relented from this plan. "It will not happen," He said.Read from ESV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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Then I said, "Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?"Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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So the LORD relented from this plan. "It will not happen either," said the Lord GOD.Read from ESV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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This is what He showed me: Behold, the Lord was standing by a wall true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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The high places of Isaac will be deserted, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with My sword."Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words,Read from ESV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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for this is what Amos has said: 'Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.'"Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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But never prophesy at Bethel again, because it is the sanctuary of the king and the temple of the kingdom."Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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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 NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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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 NKJV · (Amos) the Logic of God's Judgment
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Now, therefore, hear the word of the LORD. You say: 'Do not prophesy against Israel; do not preach against the house of Isaac.'Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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Therefore this is what the LORD says: 'Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.'"Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
Amos 8
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This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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"In that day," declares the Lord GOD, "the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!"Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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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 NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!"Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: "I will never forget any of their deeds.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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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 NKJV · (Isaiah) the Cause & Cure of Spiritual Blindness
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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 NKJV · (Isaiah) the Cause & Cure of Spiritual Blindness
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In that day the lovely young women— the young men as well— will faint from thirst.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, 'As surely as your god lives, O Dan,' or, 'As surely as the way of Beersheba lives'— they will fall, never to rise again."Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
Amos 9
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I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: "Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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Though they dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will pull them down.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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Though they hide themselves atop Carmel, there I will track them and seize them; and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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Though they are driven by their enemies into captivity, there I will command the sword to slay them. I will fix My eyes upon them for harm and not for good."Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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The Lord GOD of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers mourn— all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt—Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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He builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His vault upon the earth. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth. The LORD is His name.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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Surely the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," declares the LORD.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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"For surely I will give the command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations as grain is sifted in a sieve; but not a pebble will reach the ground.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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All the sinners among My people will die by the sword— all those who say, 'Disaster will never draw near or confront us.'"Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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"In that day I will restore the fallen tent of David. I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old,Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that bear My name," declares the LORD, who will do this.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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"Behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow.Read from NKJV · Ploughman And The Reaper
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I will restore My people Israel from captivity; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins
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I will firmly plant them in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land that I have given them," says the LORD your God.Read from NKJV · (Amos) Raising Up the Ruins