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Date: 19 Jan 2004 01:07:02 AM
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Amos, starting at chapter 7
{7:1} Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and behold, he formed locusts
in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold,
it was the latter growth after the king's harvest. {7:2} It happened
that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I
said, "Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he
is small."
{7:3} Yahweh relented concerning this. "It shall not be," says
Yahweh.
{7:4} Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and behold, the Lord Yahweh
called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would
have devoured the land. {7:5} Then I said, "Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg
you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small."
{7:6} Yahweh relented concerning this. "This also shall not be,"
says the Lord Yahweh.
{7:7} Thus he showed me and behold, the Lord stood beside a wall
made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. {7:8} Yahweh said
to me, "Amos, what do you see?"
I said, "A plumb line."
Then the Lord said, "Behold, I will set a plumb line in the midst of
my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more. {7:9} The
high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will
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 has conspired against you in the midst of the
house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words. {7:11}
For Amos says, 'Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall
surely be led away captive out of his land.'"
{7:12} Amaziah also said to Amos, "You seer, go, flee away into the
land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there: {7:13} but
don't prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king's
sanctuary, and it is a royal house!"
{7:14} Then Amos answered Amaziah, "I was no prophet, neither was I
a prophet's son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;
{7:15} and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to
me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.' {7:16} Now therefore listen to
the word of Yahweh: 'You say, Don't prophesy against Israel, and don't
preach against the house of Isaac.' {7:17} Therefore thus says Yahweh:
'Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your
daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by
line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel
shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'"
{8:1} Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer
fruit.
{8:2} He said, "Amos, what do you see?"
I said, "A basket of summer fruit."
Then Yahweh said to me,
"The end has come on my people Israel.
I will not again pass by them any more.
{8:3} The songs of the temple will be wailings in that day," says the
Lord Yahweh.
"The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them
out with silence.
{8:4} Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy,
and cause the poor of the land to fail,
{8:5} Saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell
grain?
And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat,
making the ephah small, and the shekel large,
and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
{8:6} that we may buy the poor for silver,
and the needy for a pair of shoes,
and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"
{8:7} Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob,
"Surely I will never forget any of their works.
{8:8} Won't the land tremble for this,
and everyone mourn who dwells in it?
Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River;
and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.
{8:9} It will happen in that day," says the Lord Yahweh,
"that I will cause the sun to go down at noon,
and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
{8:10} I will turn your feasts into mourning,
and all your songs into lamentation;
and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies,
and baldness on every head.
I will make it like the mourning for an only son,
and its end like a bitter day.
{8:11} Behold, the days come," says the Lord Yahweh,
"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 Yahweh.
{8:12} They will wander from sea to sea,
and from the north even to the east;
they will run back and forth to seek the word of Yahweh,
and will not find it.
{8:13} In that day the beautiful virgins
and the young men will faint for thirst.
{8:14} Those who swear by the sin of Samaria,
and say, 'As your god, Dan, lives;'
and, 'As the way of Beersheba lives;'
they will fall, and never rise up again."
{9:1} I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, "Strike
the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them
in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them
with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall
not one of them escape. {9:2} Though they dig into Sheol, there my
hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will
bring them down. {9:3} Though they hide themselves in the top of
Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hid
from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the
serpent, and it will bite them. {9:4} Though they go into captivity
before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill
them. I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good. {9:5} For
the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts,
and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like
the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt. {9:6} It is
he who builds his chambers in the heavens, and has founded his vault
on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them
out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name. {9:7} Are you not
like the children of the Ethiopians to me, children of Israel?" says
Yahweh. "Haven't I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the
Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir? {9:8} Behold, the
eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy
it from off the surface of the earth; except that I will not utterly
destroy the house of Jacob," says Yahweh. {9:9} "For, behold, I will
command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as
grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the
earth. {9:10} All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who
say, 'Evil won't overtake nor meet us.' {9:11} In that day I will
raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches,
and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of
old; {9:12} that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the
nations who are called by my name," says Yahweh who does this.
{9:13} "Behold, the days come," says Yahweh,
"that the plowman shall overtake the reaper,
and the one treading grapes him who sows seed;
and sweet wine will drip from the mountains,
and flow from the hills.
{9:14} I will bring my people Israel back from captivity,
and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them;
and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them.
They shall also make gardens,
and eat the fruit of them.
{9:15} I will plant them on their land,
and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have
given them,"
says Yahweh your God.

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