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For I know your crimes are many and your sins innumerable. They oppress the righteous, take a bribe, and deprive the poor of justice at the gates.

Therefore, the wise person will keep silent at such a time, for the days are evil.

There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass among you. The Lord has spoken.

Woe to you who long for the Day of the Lord ! What will the Day of the Lord be for you? It will be darkness and not light.

Even if you offer Me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; I will have no regard for your fellowship offerings of fattened cattle.

But you have taken up Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, images you have made for yourselves.

For the Lord commands: The large house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.

you who rejoice over Lo-debar and say, "Didn't we capture Karnaim for ourselves by our own strength?"

The Lord God showed me this: The Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.

for Amos has said this: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will certainly go into exile from its homeland.'"

but don't ever prophesy at Bethel again, for it is the king's sanctuary and a royal temple."

He asked me, "What do you see, Amos?" I replied, "A basket of summer fruit." The Lord said to me, "The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.

We can buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and even sell the chaff!"

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make that grief like mourning for an only son and its outcome like a bitter day.

Hear this! The days are coming— this is the declaration of the Lord God — when I will send a famine through the land: not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord .

And if they are driven by their enemies into captivity, from there I will command the sword to kill them. I will fix My eyes on them for harm and not for good.

for I am about to give the command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations, as one shakes a sieve, but not a pebble will fall to the ground.

Everyone who has a treaty with you will drive you to the border; everyone at peace with you will deceive and conquer you. Those who eat your bread will set a trap for you. He will be unaware of it.

On the day you stood aloof, on the day strangers captured his wealth, while foreigners entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.

For the Day of the Lord is near, against all the nations. As you have done, so it will be done to you; what you deserve will return on your own head.