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"On the day I punish Israel for her sins, I will destroy the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.

Burn leavened bread as a thank offering and brag about your freewill offerings— boast about them, you Israelites, for this is what you love to do," declares the Sovereign Lord .

People staggered from town to town for water but did not get enough to drink, yet you have not returned to me," declares the Lord .

do not seek Bethel, do not go to Gilgal, do not journey to Beersheba. For Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will be reduced to nothing."

He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns midnight into dawn and darkens day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land— the Lord is his name.

For I know how many are your offenses and how great your sins. There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.

Therefore the prudent keep quiet in such times, for the times are evil.

There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst," says the Lord .

Woe to you who long for the day of the Lord ! Why do you long for the day of the Lord ? That day will be darkness, not light.

Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them.

You have lifted up the shrine of your king, the pedestal of your idols, the star of your god— which you made for yourselves.

For the Lord has given the command, and he will smash the great house into pieces and the small house into bits.

For the Lord God Almighty declares, "I will stir up a nation against you, Israel, that will oppress you all the way from Lebo Hamath to the valley of the Arabah."

This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: The Sovereign Lord was calling for judgment by fire; it dried up the great deep and devoured the land.

For this is what Amos is saying: "‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their native land.'"

"What do you see, Amos?" he asked. "A basket of ripe fruit," I answered. Then the Lord said to me, "The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.

buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat.

"Will not the land tremble for this, and all who live in it mourn? The whole land will rise like the Nile; it will be stirred up and then sink like the river of Egypt.

I will turn your religious festivals into mourning and all your singing into weeping. I will make all of you wear sackcloth and shave your heads. I will make that time like mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.

"The days are coming," declares the Sovereign Lord , "when I will send a famine through the land— not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord .