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So the understanding ones shall keep silent in that time, for it is an evil time.

And wailing shall be in all vineyards, for I will pass among you, says Jehovah.

Woe to those desiring the day of Jehovah! What is this for you? The day of Jehovah is darkness, and not light.

Yea, you have lifted up the booth of your king, and Kiyyun, your images, the star of your gods which you made for yourselves!

those chanting with the mouth of the harp; they invent instruments of song for themselves like David;

who drink bowls of wine, and they anoint with the best of oils; but they are not grieved for the breaking of Joseph!

And his uncle shall lift him up, and he who burns him, to bring out the bones from the house; and he shall say to that one left in the recesses of the house, Are any stillwith you? And he shall say, No. Then he shallsay, Hush! For no one shall mention the name of Jehovah.

For, behold, Jehovah commands, and He will strike the great house into pieces, and the little house into cracks.

Shall horses run on the rock? Or will one plow there with oxen? For you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

those rejoicing for nothing, those saying, Have we not taken horns to ourselves by our own strength?

For, behold, I will raise a nation up against you, O house of Israel, declares Jehovah, the God of Hosts. And they shall oppress you from the entrance of Hamath to the torrent of the Arabah.

And it happened when it had made an end of eating the vegetation of the land, then I said, Lord Jehovah, I pray, forgive. How can Jacob rise up? For he is small.

Then I said, Lord Jehovah, I beg You, stop. How can Jacob rise up? For he is small.

For so Amos says: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel going shall go into exile out of his land.

And Amaziah said to Amos, Seer, go! Flee for yourself into the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there.

But do not again prophesy at Bethel any more, for it is the king's holy place, and it is the royal house.

in order to buy the helpless with silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals, and sell the chaff of the wheat?

Shall not the land tremble for this, and all who dwell in it mourn? And all of it shall go up like the light, and it shall overflow and sink like the Nile of Egypt.

And I will turn your feasts to mourning, and all your songs into a dirge. And I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head. And I will make it like the mourning for an only one; and the end of it shall be like abitter day.

Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord Jehovah, that I will send a famine into the land, not a famine for bread, nor a thirst for water, but rather a famine for hearing the Words of Jehovah.