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Then anyone who calls on the Lord will be saved, because on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be people who will be saved, just as the Lord has said. Those left alive after the day of punishment are the people whom the Lord called.

I will gather all the nations together and bring them down into the Valley Where the Lord Judges. There I will judge them, because those nations scattered my own people Israel and forced them to live in other nations. They divided up my land

Swing the cutting tool, because the harvest is ripe. Come, walk on them as you would walk on grapes to get their juice, because the winepress is full and the barrels are spilling over, because these people are so evil!"

There are huge numbers of people in the Valley of Decision, because the Lord 's day of judging is near in the Valley of Decision.

But Egypt will become empty, and Edom an empty desert, because they were cruel to the people of Judah. They killed innocent people in that land.

Offer bread made with yeast as a sacrifice to show your thanks, and brag about the special offerings you bring, because this is what you love to do, Israelites," says the Lord God .

"So this is what I will do to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, get ready to meet your God, Israel."

In such times the wise person will keep quiet, because it is a bad time.

People will be crying in all the vineyards, because I will pass among you to punish you," says the Lord .

"Because you have said this, the Lord says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will be killed with swords. Other people will measure your land and divide it among themselves, and you will die in a foreign country. The people of Israel will definitely be taken from their own land as captives.'"

He said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the Lord said to me, "An end has come for my people Israel, because I will not overlook their sins anymore.

The whole land will shake because of it, and everyone who lives in the land will cry for those who died. The whole land will rise like the Nile; it will be shaken, and then it will fall like the Nile River in Egypt."

Because you drank in my Temple, all the nations will drink on and on. They will drink and drink until they disappear.

The people of Jacob will be like a fire and the people of Joseph like a flame. But the people of Esau will be like dry stalks. The people of Jacob will set them on fire and burn them up. There will be no one left of the people of Esau." This will happen because the Lord has said it.

"Get up, go to the great city of Nineveh, and preach against it, because I see the evil things they do."

Then the men said to each other, "Let's throw lots to see who caused these troubles to happen to us." When they threw lots, the lot showed that the trouble had happened because of Jonah.

The men were very afraid, and they asked Jonah, "What terrible thing did you do?" (They knew he was running away from the Lord because he had told them.)

Instead, the men tried to row the ship back to the land, but they could not, because the sea was becoming more stormy.

So the men cried to the Lord , " Lord , please don't let us die because of this man's life; please don't think we are guilty of killing an innocent person. Lord , you have caused all this to happen; you wanted it this way."

All this is because of Jacob's sin, because of the sins of the nation of Israel. What is the place of Jacob's sin? Isn't it Samaria? What is Judah's place of idol worship? Isn't it Jerusalem?