God's blessing

AMOS.

upon the church coasts of Palestine? will ye render me the press is full, the fats overflow; for a recompense? and if ye recompense their wickedness is great. me, swiftly and speedily will I return 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the val your recompense upon your own head; ley of decision: for the day of the 5 Because ye have taken my silver Lono is near in the valley of decision. and my gold, and have carried into 15 The sun and the moon shall be your temples my goodly pleasant darkened, and the stars shall withthings: draw their shining.

6 The children also of Judah and the 16 The LonD also shall roar out of children of Jerusalem have ye sold Zion, and utter his voice from Jeru unto the Grecians, that ye might re-salem; and the heavens and the earth. move them far from their border. shall shake: but the Lond will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head;

S 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.

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 more.

18 T And it shall come to pass in [that day, that the mountains shall 9 T Prepare ye this among the Gen-[drop down new wine, and the hills tiles; Proclaim war, wake up the shall flow with milk, and all the rivmighty men, let all the men of war ers of Judali shall flow with waters, draw near; let them come up: and a fountain shall come forth of the 10 Beat your plowshares into swords, house of the LonD, and shall water and your pruning-hooks into spears: the valley of Shittim. let the weak say, I am strong.

11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. 12 Let the heathen he wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.

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.

20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to gencration.

21 For I will cleanse their blood that 13 Put ye in the sickle, for the har-I have not cleansed; for the LORD vest is ripe; come, get you down; forldwelleth in Zion.

¶ AMOS.

CHAP. I.

threshed Gilead with threshing instru ments of iron:

THE

HE words of Amos, who was 4 But I will send a fire into the house among the herdmen of Tekɔn, of Hazael, which shall devour the which he saw concerning Israel in palaces of Ben-hadad.

the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and|| 5 I will break also the bar of Damas. in the days of Jeroboam the son of Jo-cus, and cut off the inhabitant from ash king of Israel, two years before the plain of Aven, and him that holdthe earthquake. eth the sceptre from the house of 2 And he said, The Load will roar Eden: and the people of Syria sball from Zion, and utter his voice from go into captivity unto Kir, saith the Jerusalem; and the habitations of the LORD. shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.

6 T Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, 3 Thus saith the Lonn; For three 1 will not turn away the punishment transgressions of Damascus, and for thereof: because they carried away four, I will not turn away the pun-captive the whole captivity, to deliver ishment ther of; because they have them up to Edom :

CHAP. 11, III.

He complaineth of Israel's unthankfulness. 7 But I will send a fire on the wall of transgressions of Judah, and for four, Gaza, which shall devour the palaces I will not turn away the punishment thereof: thereof; because they have despised 8 And I will cut off the inhabitants the law of the LORD, and have not from Ashdod, and him that holdeth kept his commandments, and their lies the sceptre from Askelon, and I will caused them to err, after the which turn my hand against Ekron: and the their fathers have walked: remnant of the Philistines shall perish, exith the Lord God.

5. But I will send a fire upon Judal and it shall devour the palaces of Je rusalem.

9 Thus saith the LORD; For three trausgressions of Tyrus, and for four, 6 ¶ Thus saith the LORD; For three I will not turn away the punishment transgressions of Israel, and for four, thereof; because they delivered up the| I will not turn away the punishment whole captivity to Edom, and remem- thereof; because they sold the rightebered not the brotherly covenant: ous for silver, and the poor for a pair 10 But I will send a fire on the wall of shoes; of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.

ever:

7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turu 11 ¶ Thus saith the LORD; For three aside the way of the meek; and a man transgressions of Edom, and for four, and his father will go in unto the same I will not turn away the punishment maid, to profane my holy name: thereof; because he did pursue his 8 And they lay themselves down upon brother with the sword, and did cast clothes laid to pledge by every altar off all pity, and his anger did tear per- and they drmk` the wine of the con petually, and he kept his wrath for demned in the house of their god. 9 Yet destroyed I the Amorites be12 But I will send a fire upon Te-}fore them, whose height was like the man, which shall devour the palaces height of the cedars,and he was strong of Bozrah. as the oak; yet I destroyed his fruit 13 T Thus saith the Lond; For three from above, and bis rootsfrom beneath. transgressions of the children of Am- 10 Also I brought you up from the mon, and for four,I will not turn away|land of Egypt, and led you forty years the punishment thereof; because they through the wilderness,to possess the have ripped up the women with child land of the Amorite. oi Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:

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:

15 And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together,

saith the Lord.

THUS

CHAP. II.

HUS saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the prunishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime: 2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth; and Moab shall die with temult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:

3 And I will cut off the judge from the mist ikaf, and will slay all the

princes thereof with him, saith the

LORD.

11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men, for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O je children of Israel? saith the LORD. 12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

13 Behold, I am pressed under you as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.

14 Therefore the flight shall perish. from the swift, and the strong sha not strengthen his force, neither sha the mighty deliver himself:

15 Neither shall he stand that hand leth the bow; and he that is swift ol foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall be that rideth the horse deliver himself.

16 And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lond. CHAP. III.

HEAR this word that the LORD bath spoken against you, O chil

Tus saith the LORD; For threejdren of Israel, against the whole fam

ily which I brought up from the land o Egypt, saying,

2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

3 Can two walk together,except they be agreed?

4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of lus den, if he have taken nothing?

5 Caŭ a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a share from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?

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for incorrigibleness.

CHAP. IV.

“EAR this word, ye kine of Bas

skan, that are in the mountai of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink. 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.

3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before ber; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the Lond.

6 Sball a trumpet be blown in the 4 T Come to Beth-el,and transgress; city, and the people not be afraid Pat Gilgal multiply transgression; and shall, there be evil in a city, and the bring your sacrifices every morning, LORD hath not done it ? and your tithes after three years: 5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiv ing with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free-offerings; for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord Goo.

7 Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

8 The hon bath roared, who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy ?

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.

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 be hold the great tumults in the midst 7 And also I have withholden the thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof

10 For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

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.

11 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversarythere shall be even round about the land; and he shall 8 So two or three cities wandered unbring down thy strength from tice, to one city, to drink water; but they and thy palaces shall be spoiled. were not satisfied: yet have ye not 12 Thus saith the Lond; As the returned unto me, saith the LORD. shepherd taketh out of the mouth of 9 I bave smitten you with blasting the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; and mildew; when your gardens, and so eball the children of Israel be taken your vineyards, and your fig-trees, out that dwell in Samaria in the cor-and your olive-trees increased, the ner of a bed, and in Damascus in a palmer-worm devoured them; yet couch. have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

13 Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord God, the God 10 I have sent among you the pesti of hosts, lence after the manner of Egypt: your 14 That in the day that I shall visit young men have I slain with the the transgressions of Israel upon him, sword, and have taken away your I will also visit the altars of Beth-el:]horses; and I bave made the stink of and the hornsof the altar shall be cut your camps to come up unto your nosoll, and fall to the ground. trils: yet have ye not returned unto

15 And I will smite the winter-house me, saith the LORD. with the summer-house; and the bou-11 1 bave overthrown some of you, ses of ivory shall perish, and the great as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorhouses shall have an end, saith the rab, and ye were as a firebrand pluckLORD. 'ed out of the burning; yet have ye not

An exhortation

CHAP. V.

to repentance. returned unto me, saith the Load.,gressions and your mighty sins: they 12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, afflict the just, they take a bribe, and O Israel: and because I will do this they turn aside the poor in the gate unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, from their right.

O Israel.

13 Therefore the prudent shall keep

13 For, lo, he that formeth the moun- silence in that time; for it is an evil tains and createth the wind, and de-time.

careth unto man what is bis thought, 14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye that maketh the morningdarkness,and may live: and so the LORD, the God treadeth upon the high places of the of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, spoken.

is is name.

CHAP. V.

HEAR ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamenta

tion, O house of Israel.

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.

2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she 16 Therefore the LORD, the God of shall no more rise: she is forsaken hosts, the Lond, saith thus; Wailing upon her land: there is none to raise|shall be in all streets; and they shall her up. say in all the highways, Alas! alas! 3 For thus saith the Lord God; The and they shall call the husbandman to city tha, went out by a thousand shall mourning, and such as are skilful of leave a hundred, and that which went lamentation to wailing, forth by a hundred shall leave ten, to] 17 And in all vineyards shall be wail the house of Israel. ing: for I will pass through thee, saith the Lond.

4T For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live.

5 But seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal,and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought. 6 Seck the LonD, 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 Beth-el.

18 Wo 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.

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.

20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very 7 Ye who turn judgment to worm-dark, and no brightness in it? wood, and leave off righteousness in 21 TI hate, I despise your feast-days, the earth, and I will not smell in your solemn as.

8 Seck him that maketh the seven semblies. stars andOrion,and turneth theshadow 22 Though ye offer me burnt-offerof death into the morning, and makethings and your meat-offerings, I will the day dark with night; that calleth not accept them: neither will I refor the waters of the sea, and poureth gard the peace-offerings of your fat them out upon the face of the earth: beasts. The Loan is his name:

shall come against the fortrese.

23 Take thou away from me the 9 That strengtheneth the spoiled noise of thy songs; for I will not hear against the strong, so that the spoiled the melody of thy viols. 24 But let judgment run down as 10 They hate him that rebuketh in waters, and righteousness as a mighty the gate, and they abhor him that stream. speaketh uprightly.

2 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

11Forasmuch therefore as yourtreading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built 26 But ye have borne the tabernacle houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not of your Moloch and Chiun your imdwell in them; ye have planted pleas-ages, the star of your god, which ye ant vineyards, but ye shall not drink made to yourselves. wine of them. 27 Therefore will I cause you to go 12 For I know your manifold trans-[into captivity beyond Damascus, saith

shall be plagued.

the Lone, whose name is The God of taken to us horns by ourown strength? bosts. 14 But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith

Ο

CHAP. VI.

Wo to them that are at ease in the LORD, the God of hosts; and they

Zion,and trust in the mountain] shall afflict you from the entering in of Samaria, which are named chief of of Hamath unto the river of the wii the nations, to whom the house of Is-derness.

rael came!

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; 5 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of music, like David;

CHAP. VII.

US hath the Lord God showed THUS 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.

2 And it caine to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord Gon, forgive, I beseech thee; by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small,

3 The LonD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LonU.

4 Thus bath the Lord God showed

6 That drink wine in bowls, and unto me; and, behold, the Lord God anout themselves with the chief oint-called to contend by fire, and it dements: but they are not grieved for the voured the great deep, and did eat up affliction of Joseph. a part.

7 T Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and The banquet of thein that stretched themselves shall be removed.

5 Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee? by whom shall Jacob arise ? for he is small.

6 The LORD repented for this: This 8 The Lord God hath sworn by him-[also shall not be, saith the Lord Gọn, self, saith the Load the God of hosts, 7 ¶ Thus he showed me; and,behold, 1 abbor the excellency of Jacob, and the Lord stood upon a wall made by hate his palaces: therefore will I de-a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his liver up the city with all that is there-band.

in.

8 And the LORD said unto me, Amos

9 And it shall come to pass, if there what seest thou? And I said, A plumb · remain ten men in one house, that line. Then said the LORD, Behold, I they shall die. will set a plumb-line in the midst of 10. And a man's uncle shall take him my people Israel: 1 will not again up, and be that burneth him, to bring pass by them any more :

out the bones out of the house, and 9 And the high places of Isaac shall shall say unto him that is by the sides be desolate, and the sanctuaries of 18of the house, Is there yet any with|raelshall be laid waste; and I will rise thee? and he shall say, No. Then against the house of Jeroboam with shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we the sword. may not make mention of the name of the LORD.

10 T Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent to Jeroboam king of Is 11 For, behold, the LORD command-rael, saying, Amos hath conspired eth, and he will smite the great house against thee in the midst of the house with breaches, and the little house of Israel: the land is not able to bear with clefts. all his words.

11 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shal! surely be led away captive out of their own land.

12 T 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 liemlock: 13 Ye which rejoice in a thing of 12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O nought, which say, Have we not thou seer, go, fire thee away into the