Amos 3 ~ 5

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3:1Hear this word that Jehovah has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying, Compare
3:2Only you have I known / Of all the families of the earth; / Therefore I will visit upon you / All your iniquities. Compare
3:3Will two walk together / If they have not met at an appointed place? Compare
3:4Will the lion roar in the forest / When he has no prey? / Will a young lion utter his voice from his den / If he has not seized anything? Compare
3:5Will a bird fall into a trap on the earth / When there is no snare laid for it? / Will a trap spring up off the ground / When it has seized nothing at all? Compare
3:6Can a trumpet be blown in a city / And the people not dread? / Can there be ill in a city / And Jehovah did not do it? Compare
3:7Surely the Lord Jehovah will not do anything unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets. Compare
3:8The lion has roared - / Who will not fear? / The Lord Jehovah has spoken - / Who can but prophesy? Compare
3:9Cause it to be heard in the palaces of Ashdod / And in the palaces of the land of Egypt, and say, / Assemble yourselves in the mountains of Samaria, / And see what great tumults are in the midst of it / And what oppressions are within it; Compare
3:10And they do not know to do what is right, / Declares Jehovah, / They who store up violence and devastation in their palaces. Compare
3:11Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, / An adversary! Indeed one surrounding the land; / And he will bring down your strength from you, / And your palaces will be plundered. Compare
3:12Thus says Jehovah, As the shepherd rescues / Out of the mouth of the lion / Two legs or a piece of the ear, / So will the children of Israel / Who dwell in Samaria be rescued, / With the corner of a bed / And a silk cushion of a couch. Compare
3:13Hear, and testify against the house of Jacob, declares the Lord Jehovah, the God of hosts. Compare
3:14For in the day when I visit / The transgressions of Israel upon him, / I will visit the altars of Bethel, / And the horns of the altar will be cut off / And will fall to the ground. Compare
3:15And I will strike the winter house / Along with the summer house; / And the houses of ivory will perish, / And many houses will come to an end, / Declares Jehovah. Compare
4:1Hear this word, / O heifers of Bashan, which are on the mountain of Samaria, / Who oppress the poor / And crush the needy, / Who say to their lords, / Bring, and let us drink. Compare
4:2The Lord Jehovah has sworn by His holiness / Indeed days are coming upon you / When one will take you away with hooks, / And your posterity, with fish hooks. Compare
4:3And you will go out through the breaches, each one straight ahead of her; / And you will cast yourselves into Harmon, declares Jehovah. Compare
4:4Come to Bethel, and transgress; / To Gilgal, and multiply transgression; / And bring your sacrifices every morning / And your tithes every three days, Compare
4:5And offer in smoke a thank offering out of what is leavened; / And proclaim freewill offerings; make them known; / For you love them, O children of Israel, / Declares the Lord Jehovah. Compare
4:6And I also have given you / Cleanness of teeth in all your cities / And want of bread in all your places. / Yet you have not returned to Me, / Declares Jehovah. Compare
4:7And I have also withheld the rain from you / When there was yet three months until the harvest; And I made it rain on one city, / But on another city I did not make it rain; / One portion was rained on, / And the portion that was not rained on dried up. Compare
4:8And two or three cities wandered to one city to drink water, / But they were not satisfied. / Yet you have not returned to Me, / Declares Jehovah. Compare
4:9I have stricken you with blight and mildew; / The multitudes of your gardens and your vineyards, / And your fig trees and your olive trees, the cutting locust has devoured. / Yet you have not returned to Me, / Declares Jehovah. Compare
4:10I have sent among you pestilence after the manner of Egypt; / I have slain your choice young men with the sword, taking your horses / captive; / And I have caused the stench of your camp to go up even into your own / nostrils. / Yet you have not returned to Me, / Declares Jehovah. Compare
4:11I have overturned cities among you, / As when God overturned Sodom and Gomorrah; / And you were like a brand plucked out of the burning. / Yet you have not returned to Me, / Declares Jehovah. Compare
4:12Therefore this is what I will do to you, O Israel; / And because I will do this to you, / Prepare to meet your God, O Israel. Compare
4:13For it is He who forms the mountains and creates the wind / And declares to man what His thought is; / He who makes the morning darkness / And treads upon the high places of the earth - / Jehovah the God of hosts is His name! Compare
5:1Hear this word that I take up as a lamentation over you, O house of Israel. Compare
5:2Fallen and no more to rise / Is the virgin of Israel; / She has been cast down upon her land; / There is none to raise her up. Compare
5:3For thus says the Lord Jehovah, The city that sent forth a thousand / Will have a hundred left, And that which sent forth a hundred / Will have ten left, / To the house of Israel. Compare
5:4For thus says Jehovah to the house of Israel, / Seek Me, and live; Compare
5:5And do not seek Bethel, / Nor go to Gilgal, / Nor pass on to Beer-sheba; / For Gilgal will surely go into captivity, / And Bethel will become vanity. Compare
5:6Seek Jehovah, and live; / Lest He rush upon the house of Joseph like fire, / And it devour it, and there be none to extinguish the fire in Bethel. Compare
5:7They turn justice to wormwood / And thrust righteousness down to the ground. Compare
5:8He who makes the Pleiades and Orion / And turns the shadow of death into the morning / And darkens the day with the night; / He who calls for the water of the sea / And pours it upon the surface of the earth, / Jehovah is His name, Compare
5:9Who causes destruction to flash forth upon the strong, / So that destruction comes upon the fortress. Compare
5:10They hate him who reproves in the gate, / And him who speaks with integrity they abhor. Compare
5:11Therefore because you trample upon the poor / And take a forced gift of wheat from them; / You have built houses of hewn stone, / But you will not dwell in them; / You have planted desirable vineyards, / But you will not drink their wine. Compare
5:12For I know that your transgressions are many / And that your sins are mighty, / You who vex the righteous and take ransom payment / And turn aside justice for the needy in the gate. Compare
5:13Therefore he who has insight will keep silent at this time, for it is an evil time. Compare
5:14Seek good and not evil, / In order that you may live; / And so Jehovah the God of hosts will be with you, / As you say. Compare
5:15Hate evil and love good, / And set up justice in the gate. / Perhaps Jehovah the God of hosts will be gracious / To the remnant of Joseph. Compare
5:16Therefore thus says Jehovah, / The God of hosts, the Lord: / In all the open plazas there will be wailing, / And in all the streets they will say, Alas! Alas! / And they will call the farmer to mourning, / And for wailing to those skilled in lamentation. Compare
5:17In all the vineyards there will be wailing, / For I will pass through your midst, says Jehovah. Compare
5:18Woe to you who desire / The day of Jehovah! / What good is the day of Jehovah to you? / It will be darkness and not light, Compare
5:19As when a man flees from before a lion / And encounters a bear, / Or goes into the house and leans his hand against the wall, / And a serpent bites him. Compare
5:20Will not the day of Jehovah be darkness and not light, / Even deep darkness and no brightness to it? Compare
5:21I hate, I despise, your feasts, / And I will not delight in your solemn assemblies. Compare
5:22For if you offer up to Me burnt offerings / And your meal offerings, I will not accept them; / Nor will I regard the peace offerings of your fatted animals. Compare
5:23Take the noise of your songs away from Me, / For I will not hear the melody of your harps. Compare
5:24But let justice roll down like water, / And righteousness, like an ever-flowing river. Compare
5:25Did you bring Me sacrifices and meal offerings / In the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel? Compare
5:26Indeed, you took up Sikkuth your king / And Kiyyun your images, the star of your gods that you made for / yourselves. Compare
5:27Thus I will bring you into captivity / Beyond Damascus, says Jehovah; / The God of hosts is His name. Compare

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