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For thus saith the Lord God: The city, out of which came forth a thousand, there shall be left in it a hundred: and out of which there came a hundred, there shall be left in it ten, in the house of Israel.

For thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and you shall live.

But seek not Bethel, and go not into Galgal, neither shall you pass over to Bersabee: for Galgal shall go into captivity, and Bethel shall be unprofitable.

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence at that time, for it is an evil time.

Woe to them that desire the day of the Lord: to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.

Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel?

you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch, and the image of your idols, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves.

That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best ointments: and they are not concerned for the affliction of Joseph.

(6-12) For behold the Lord hath commanded, and he will strike the greater house with breaches, and the lesser house with clefts.

(6-13) Can horses run upon the rocks, or can any one plough with buffles? for you have turned judgment into bitterness, and the fruit of justice into wormwood.

And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, I said: O Lord God, be merciful, I beseech thee: who shall raise up Jacob, for he is very little?

These things the Lord God shewed to me: and behold the Lord called for judgment unto fire, and it devoured the great deep, and ate up a part at the same time.

And I said: O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee, who shall raise up Jacob, for he is a little one?

For thus saith Amos: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall be carried away captive out of their own land.

That we may possess the needy for money, and the poor for a pair of shoes, and may sell the refuse of the corn?

Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein: and rise up altogether as a river, and be cast out, and run down as the river of Egypt?

In that day the fair virgins, and the young men shall faint for thirst.

I saw the Lord standing upon the altar, and he said: Strike the hinges, and let the lintels be shook: for there is covetousness in the head of them all, and I will slay the last of them with the sword: there shall be no flight for them: they shall flee, and he that shall flee of them shall not be delivered.

And if they go into captivity before their enemies, there will I command the sword, and it shall kill them. And I will set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

For behold I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, as corn is sifted in a sleve: and there shall not a little stone fall to the ground.