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For thus says the Lord God : The city that marched out a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which marched out a hundred shall have ten left.

For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek me and live;

but do not seek Bethel, and do not enter into Gilgal or cross over to Beer-sheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into exile, and Bethel shall come to nothing.

The one who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name,

For I know how many are your transgressions, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and push aside the needy in the gate.

Therefore the prudent will keep silent in such a time; for it is an evil time.

in all the vineyards there shall be wailing, for I will pass through the midst of you, says the Lord .

Alas for you who desire the day of the Lord ! Why do you want the day of the Lord ? It is darkness, not light;

You shall take up Sakkuth your king, and Kaiwan your star-god, your images, which you made for yourselves;

Alas for those who are at ease in Zion, and for those who feel secure on Mount Samaria, the notables of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel resorts!

Alas for those who lie on beds of ivory, and lounge on their couches, and eat lambs from the flock, and calves from the stall;

you who rejoice in Lo-debar, who say, "Have we not by our own strength taken Karnaim for ourselves?"

This is what the Lord God showed me: the Lord God was calling for a shower of fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.

For thus Amos has said, ‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel must go into exile away from his land.'"

but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom."

saying, "When will the new moon be over so that we may sell grain; and the sabbath, so that we may offer wheat for sale? We will make the ephah small and the shekel great, and practice deceit with false balances,

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

I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

The time is surely coming, says the Lord God , when I will send a famine on the land; not a famine of bread, or a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord .

In that day the beautiful young women and the young men shall faint for thirst.