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Israel has forgotten his maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send fire on his cities and it will devour her strongholds.

They will not remain in the land of Yahweh. But Ephraim will return to Egypt, and in Assyria they will eat unclean food.

Ephraim, as I see it, is like a palm in a meadow; but Ephraim must bring out his children to the slayer.

And I myself taught Ephraim to walk; I took them in my arms, but they did not know that I healed them.

But you, you must return to your God; keep love and justice, and wait continually for your God.

But I am Yahweh your God since the land of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again, like the days of the appointed festival.

When Ephraim spoke, there was terror; he was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.

Who is wise that he can understand these things? Who is discerning that he knows them? The ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; but transgressors stumble in them.

And Yahweh roars from Zion; from Jerusalem he utters his voice, and the heavens and the earth shake. But Yahweh is a refuge for his people, and a protection for the children of Israel.

But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem for all generations.

But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy.'

But do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal or cross over to Beersheba, for Gilgal will certainly go into exile and Bethel will come to disaster."

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and you take a grain tax from them, you built houses of dressed stone, but you will not live in them. You built vineyards of delightfulness, but you will not drink their wine.

But let justice roll on like the water, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Do horses run on rocks, or does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood!

But do not prophesy again at Bethel, because this is a sanctuary of a king and this is a temple of a kingdom."

And Amos answered and said to Amaziah, "I am not a prophet and I am not a son of a prophet, but I am a herdsman and I am one taking care of sycamore trees.

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 they will wander from sea to sea and from the north and to the east. They will roam about to seek the word of Yahweh, but they will not find it!

"Yes, look, I am going to command and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations like one who shakes with a sieve, but not a pebble will fall to the ground.