BOOK:Joel
1:1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of
Pethuel.
1:2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants
of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
1:3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children
tell their children, and their children another generation.
1:4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust
eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and
that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
1:5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers
of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
1:6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and
without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek
teeth of a great lion.
1:7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree:
he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are
made white.
1:8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the
husband of her youth.
1:9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off
from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.
1:10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the
corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
1:11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers,
for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
1:12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth;
the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all
the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from
the sons of men.
1:13 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye
ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers
of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from
the house of your God.
1:14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather
the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD
your God, and cry unto the LORD,
1:15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at
hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
1:16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy
and gladness from the house of our God?
1:17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners
are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
1:18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are
perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made
desolate.
1:19 O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured
the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees
of the field.
1:20 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for
the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures
of the wilderness.
2:1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in
my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the
day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
2:2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds
and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great
people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be
any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
2:3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame
burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them
a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
2:4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses;
and as horsemen, so shall they run.
2:5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains
shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble,
as a strong people set in battle array.
2:6 Before their face the people shall be much pained:
all faces shall gather blackness.
2:7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb
the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and
they shall not break their ranks:
2:8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk
every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not
be wounded.
2:9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall
run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter
in at the windows like a thief.
2:10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall
tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw
their shining:
2:11 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army:
for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for
the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
2:12 Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even
to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with
mourning:
2:13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and
turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger,
and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
2:14 Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave
a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the
LORD your God?
2:15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call
a solemn assembly:
2:16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble
the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the
bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
2:17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep
between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O
LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should
rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their
God?
2:18 Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and
pity his people.
2:19 Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people,
Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied
therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:
2:20 But I will remove far off from you the northern
army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face
toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his
stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath
done great things.
2:21 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD
will do great things.
2:22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures
of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree
and the vine do yield their strength.
2:23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in
the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and
he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter
rain in the first month.
2:24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats
shall overflow with wine and oil.
2:25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust
hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my
great army which I sent among you.
2:26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and
praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you:
and my people shall never be ashamed.
2:27 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel,
and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never
be ashamed.
2:28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will
pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall
prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
2:29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids
in those days will I pour out my spirit.
2:30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the
earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
2:31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon
into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come.
2:32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall
call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and
in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant
whom the LORD shall call.
3:1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when
I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
3:2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them
down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for
my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the
nations, and parted my land.
3:3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given
a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
3:4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and
Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence?
and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence
upon your own head;
3:5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and
have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
3:6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem
have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their
border.
3:7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither
ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
3:8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into
the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans,
to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
3:9 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war,
wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come
up:
3:10 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks
into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
3:11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and
gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to
come down, O LORD.
3:12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley
of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
3:13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come,
get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness
is great.
3:14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision:
for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
3:15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the
stars shall withdraw their shining.
3:16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter
his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but
the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children
of Israel.
3:17 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling
in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall
no strangers pass through her any more.
3:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the
mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk,
and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall
come forth out of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of
Shittim.
3:19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a
desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because
they have shed innocent blood in their land.
3:20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from
generation to generation.
3:21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed:
for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.
BOOK: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.
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.
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:
1:4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael,
which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.
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 sceptre
from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity
unto Kir, saith the LORD.
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:
1:7 But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which
shall devour the palaces thereof:
1:8 And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and
him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against
Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord
GOD.
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:
1:10 But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which
shall devour the palaces thereof.
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:
1:12 But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour
the palaces of Bozrah.
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:
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:
1:15 And their king shall go into captivity, he and his
princes together, saith the LORD.
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:
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:
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.
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:
2:5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour
the palaces of Jerusalem.
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;
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
2:12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded
the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
2:13 Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed
that is full of sheaves.
2:14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift,
and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty
deliver himself:
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.
2:16 And he that is courageous among the mighty shall
flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.
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,
3:2 You only have I known of all the families of the
earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
3:3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
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?
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?
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?
3:7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth
his secret unto his servants the prophets.
3:8 The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord
GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
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.
3:10 For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who
store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
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.
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.
3:13 Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith
the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
3:14 That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions
of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns
of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.
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.
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.
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.
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.
4:4 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply
transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes
after three years:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
5:1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even
a lamentation, O house of Israel.
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.
5:3 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out
by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred
shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
5:4 For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel,
Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
5:5 But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass
not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel
shall come to nought.
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 Bethel.
5:7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness
in the earth,
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:
5:9 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong,
so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
5:10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they
abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
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.
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.
5:13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that
time; for it is an evil time.
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.
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.
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 skilful of lamentation to wailing.
5:17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will
pass through thee, saith the LORD.
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.
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.
5:20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not
light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
5:21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not
smell in your solemn assemblies.
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.
5:23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for
I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
5:24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness
as a mighty stream.
5:25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings
in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
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.
5:27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity
beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
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!
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?
6:3 Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the
seat of violence to come near;
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;
6:5 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to
themselves instruments of musick, like David;
6:6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with
the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
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.
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.
6:9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men
in one house, that they shall die.
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.
6:11 For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite
the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
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:
6:13 Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say,
Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?
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.
7:1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed 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.
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.
7:3 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith
the LORD.
7:4 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold,
the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep,
and did eat up a part.
7:5 Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by
whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
7:6 The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be,
saith the Lord GOD.
7:7 Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the LORD stood upon
a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
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:
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.
7:10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel 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.
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.
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:
7:13 But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it
is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court.
7:14 Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no
prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer
of sycomore fruit:
7:15 And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and
the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
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.
7:17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be
an 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.
8:1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold
a basket of summer fruit.
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.
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.
8:4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to
make the poor of the land to fail,
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?
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?
8:7 The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely
I will never forget any of their works.
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.
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:
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.
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:
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.
8:13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men
faint for thirst.
8:14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say,
Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they
shall fall, and never rise up again.
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.
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:
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:
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
9:10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,
which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.