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Those who are wise understand these things; those who are discerning know them. For the ways of the Lord are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.

Fire devours in front of them, and behind them a flame burns. Before them the land is like the garden of Eden, but after them a desolate wilderness, and nothing escapes them.

But now I will rouse them to leave the places to which you have sold them, and I will turn your deeds back upon your own heads.

The Lord roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shake. But the Lord is a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.

But Judah shall be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem to all generations.

Thus says the Lord : For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they have rejected the law of the Lord , and have not kept his statutes, but they have been led astray by the same lies after which their ancestors walked.

But you made the nazirites drink wine, and commanded the prophets, saying, "You shall not prophesy."

The lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken; who can but prophesy?

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 nothing.

Therefore because you trample on the poor and take from them levies of grain, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not live in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

who drink wine from bowls, and anoint themselves with the finest oils, but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!

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

but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom."

Then Amos answered Amaziah, "I am no prophet, nor a prophet's son; but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees,

The time is surely coming, says the Lord God , when I will send a famine on the land; not a famine of bread, or a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord .

They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord , but they shall not find it.

For lo, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the ground.

But you should not have gloated over your brother on the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah on the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted on the day of distress.

But on Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall take possession of those who dispossessed them.