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No, but now you will bear Sikkut as your king and Kiyun, your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves;

For when Adonai gives the order, great houses will be shattered and small houses reduced to rubble.

For ‘Amos says: ‘Yarov‘am will die by the sword, and Isra'el will be led away from their land into exile.'"

but don't prophesy any more at Beit-El; for this is the king's sanctuary, a royal temple."

He asked, "‘Amos, what do you see?" I answered, "A basket of summer fruit." Then Adonai said to me, "The end has come for my people, I will never again overlook their offenses.

buying the needy for money and the poor for a pair of shoes, and sweeping up the refuse of the wheat to sell!"

Won't the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn, who lives in the land? It will all rise, just like the Nile, be in turmoil and subside, like the Nile in Egypt.

I will turn your festivals into mourning and all your songs into wailing; I will make you all put sackcloth around your waists and shave your heads bald in grief. I will make it like mourning for an only son and its end like a bitter day.

"The time is coming," says Adonai Elohim , "when I will send famine over the land, not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Adonai .

If their enemies herd them into exile, I will order the sword to kill them there. I will fix my gaze on them for harm and not for good."

For Adonai Elohim -Tzva'ot is the one who can melt the earth with his touch, and make all who live on it mourn. It will all rise, just like the Nile, and then subside, like the Nile in Egypt.

"For when I give the order, I will shake the house of Isra'el, there among all the Goyim, as one shakes with a sieve, letting no grain fall to the ground.

If thieves were to come to you, or if robbers by night (Oh, how destroyed you are!), wouldn't they stop when they'd stolen enough? If grape-pickers came to you, Wouldn't they leave some grapes for gleaning?

Your allies went with you only to the border, those at peace with you deceived and defeated you, those who ate your food set a trap for you, and you couldn't discern it.

For the violence done to your kinsman Ya‘akov, shame will cover you; and you will be forever cut off.

On that day you stood aside, while strangers carried off his treasure, and foreigners entered his gates to cast lots for Yerushalayim — you were no different from them.

For the Day of Adonai is near for all nations; as you did, it will be done to you; your dealings will come back on your own head.

For just as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink in turn; yes, they will drink and gulp it down and be as if they had never existed.

The house of Ya‘akov will be a fire and the house of Yosef a flame, setting aflame and consuming the stubble which is the house of ‘Esav. None of the house of ‘Esav will remain, for Adonai has spoken.

"Set out for the great city of Ninveh, and proclaim to it that their wickedness has come to my attention."