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"You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

Does a bird fall in a snare on the earth, when there is no trap for it? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when it has taken nothing?

"that on the day I punish Israel for his transgressions, I will punish the altars of Bethel, and the horns of the altar shall be cut off and fall to the ground.

offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill offerings, publish them; for so you love to do, O people of Israel!" says the Lord GOD.

For lo, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth--the LORD, the God of hosts, is his name!

For thus says the Lord GOD: "The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel."

For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel: "Seek me and live;

but do not seek Bethel, and do not enter into Gilgal or cross over to Beer-sheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into exile, and Bethel shall come to nought."

Seek the LORD and live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel,

He who made the Plei'ades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the surface of the earth, the LORD is his name,

For I know how many are your transgressions, and how great are your sins--you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.

Therefore he who is prudent will keep silent in such a time; for it is an evil time.

and in all vineyards there shall be wailing, for I will pass through the midst of you," says the LORD.

You shall take up Sakkuth your king, and Kaiwan your star-god, your images, which you made for yourselves;

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

For behold, the LORD commands, and the great house shall be smitten into fragments, and the little house into bits.

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

"For behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel," says the LORD, the God of hosts; "and they shall oppress you from the entrance of Hamath to the Brook of the Arabah."

Thus 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, 'Jerobo'am shall die by the sword, and Israel must go into exile away from his land.'"