Page 527 Joel Joel 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 fats 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 {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 Joel 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 the 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 of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim. {3:19} Egypt Page 528 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. Page 529 Amos Amos 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 {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 Ben-hadad. {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, Amos 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 Beer-sheba: 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 Page 530 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 Page 531 Amos 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 Beer-sheba 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 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 Amos 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. 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