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You shall take up Sikkuth your king, and Kiyyun your star-god—your images that you made for yourselves,

who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp and like David invent for themselves instruments of music,

And when one's relative, the one who anoints him for burial, shall take him up to bring the bones out of the house, and shall say to him who is in the innermost parts of the house, "Is there still anyone with you?" he shall say, "No"; and he shall say, "Silence! We must not mention the name of the Lord ."

For behold, the Lord commands, and the great house shall be struck down into fragments, and the little house into bits.

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

"For behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel," declares the Lord , the God of hosts; "and they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah."

This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, the Lord God was calling for a judgment by 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, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances,

that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and sell the chaff of the wheat?"

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist 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.

"Behold, the days are coming," declares the Lord God , "when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord .

"In that day the lovely virgins and the young men shall faint for thirst.

And if they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them; and I will fix my eyes upon them for evil and not for good."

who builds his upper chambers in the heavens and founds his vault upon the earth; who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the surface of the earth— the Lord is his name.

"For behold, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the earth.

The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom: We have heard a report from the Lord , and a messenger has been sent among the nations: "Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!"

If thieves came to you, if plunderers came by night— how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?

On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.