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And in all vineyards shall be wailing; for I will pass through the midst of you, says the LORD.

Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? The day of the LORD? For it is a day of darkness and not light.

Take away from me the noise of your songs; for I will not hear the melody of your harps.

Did you offer to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel?

O you who wait for the evil day, and cause the sabbath of violence to come near;

Who drink pure wine, and anoint themselves with the finest perfumes; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

And a mans uncle or one who is near to him shall carry the dead body out of the house; and he shall say to him who is in the house, Is there any one else in the house with you? And he shall say, There is no one, because they have perished; for they did not mention the name of the LORD.

For, behold, the LORD will go forth and he will smite the great house and cause it to quiver, and the little house will he make desolate.

Do horses run upon rocks? Or does one plough with horses? For you have turned justice into bitterness, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood;

And it came to pass when they had finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, O LORD God, forgive. Who shall raise up Jacob? For he is small in numbers.

Then I said, O LORD God, forgive. Who shall raise up Jacob? For he is small in numbers.

For thus Amos is saying: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be carried away captive out of their own land.

But prophesy, not again any more at Beth-el; for it is the kings sanctuary and it is the house of the kingdom.

That we may sell to the poor for silver, and pay the needy with the refuse of the wheat, and sell the refuse which is left on the floor of the storehouses.

Shall not the land tremble for these things, and every one mourn who dwells in it? The end shall come up like a flooded river; and it shall cast things away, and then recede like the river of Egypt.

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

Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will send a famine in the land; not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the LORD;

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

And though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it shall slay them; and I will set my eyes upon them for evil and not for good;

It is he who has built his stories in heaven, and has made his possessions in the earth; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth; the LORD of hosts is his name.