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Therefore, whoever has insight will keep silent in that time, for it is a time of evil.

Alas, those who desire the day of Yahweh, why is this for you the day of Yahweh? It will be darkness and not light!

And you will take up Sikkuth, your king, and Kaiwan, your images, the star of your gods which you made for yourselves.

Alas for those being at ease in Zion, and those who feel secure on Mount Samaria, the notables of the best of the nations! The house of Israel resorts to them.

Alas for those who lie on beds of ivory and lounge on their couches, and those eating young rams from the sheep and goats, and bull-calves from the middle of the animal stall.

Alas for those who sing to the tune of the harp; like David they improvise on instruments of music.

Alas for those who drink from sprinkling bowls of wine and anoint themselves with the best of olive oils and are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph.

You who rejoice over Lo-Debar, who say, "Have we not taken Karnaim for ourselves by our strength?"

This is what my Lord Yahweh showed me, and look, my Lord Yahweh was going to call for a legal case with fire, and it devoured the great deep and it ate up the plots of ground.

For this Amos has said, ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword and Israel will certainly go into exile away from his land.'"

That we can buy the powerless with silver and the poor for the sake of a pair of sandals, and we can sell the waste of the grain?"

And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all of your songs into lament, and I will put sackcloth on all loins and baldness on every head. And I will make it like the mourning for an only child, and its end like a bitter day.

Look, the days are coming," declares my Lord Yahweh, "when I will send a famine in the land, not a famine for bread and not a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Yahweh!

And even if they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I will command the sword and it will kill them, and I will fix my eyes on them for harm and not for good."

who builds his upper chambers in the heavens and lays the foundation of his vault on the earth, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them on the surface of the earth—Yahweh is his name.

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

All of your allies have driven you up to the boundary; your confederates have deceived you and have prevailed against you. Those who eat your bread have set an ambush for you, there is no understanding of it.

"For the day of Yahweh is near against all the nations! Just as you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return on your own head.

For just as you have drunk on my holy mountain, all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and they will slurp, and they will be as if they had never been.

And the house of Jacob will be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; and they will set them on fire and will consume them. And there will not be a survivor for the house of Esau," for Yahweh has spoken.