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For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.

So the wise will say nothing in that time; for it is an evil time.

In all the vine-gardens there will be cries of grief: for I will go through among you, says the Lord.

Sorrow to you who are looking for the day of the Lord! what is the day of the Lord to you? it is dark and not light.

Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?

Truly, you will take up Saccuth your king and Kaiwan your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.

Making foolish songs to the sound of corded instruments, and designing for themselves instruments of music, like David;

Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph.

The Lord God has taken an oath by himself, says the Lord, the God of armies: the pride of Jacob is disgusting to me, and I have hate for his great houses: so I will give up the town with everything in it.

And when a man's relation, even the one who is responsible for burning his body, lifting him up to take his bones out of the house, says to him who is in the inmost part of the house, Is there still anyone with you? and he says, No; then he will say, Keep quiet, for the name of the Lord may not be named.

For see, at the order of the Lord the great house will be full of cracks and the little house will be broken.

Is it possible for horses to go running on the rock? may the sea be ploughed with oxen? for the right to be turned by you into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into a bitter plant?

You whose joy is in a thing of no value, who say, Have we not taken for ourselves horns by the strength which is ours?

For see, I will send against you a nation, O Israel, says the Lord, the God of armies, ruling you cruelly from the way into Hamath as far as the stream of the Arabah.

And it came about that after they had taken all the grass of the land, I said, O Lord God, have mercy: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.

This is what the Lord let me see: and I saw that the Lord God sent for a great fire to be the instrument of his punishment; and, after burning up the great deep, it was about to put an end to the Lord's heritage.

Then said I, O Lord God, let there be an end: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.

For Amos has said, Jeroboam will be put to the sword, and Israel will certainly be taken away as a prisoner out of his land.

But be a prophet no longer at Beth-el: for it is the holy place of the king, and the king's house.

Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.