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The Lord will roar from Zionand make his voice heard from Jerusalem;heaven and earth will shake.But the Lord will be a refuge for his people,a stronghold for the Israelites.

Their king and his princeswill go into exile together.The Lord has spoken.

They trample the heads of the pooron the dust of the groundand obstruct the path of the needy.A man and his father have sexual relationswith the same girl,profaning my holy name.

Yet I destroyed the Amorite as Israel advanced;his height was like the cedars,and he was as sturdy as the oaks;I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.

Escape will fail the swift,the strong one will not maintain his strength,and the warrior will not save his life.

The archer will not stand his ground,the one who is swift of footwill not save himself,and the one riding a horse will not save his life.

Indeed, the Lord God does nothingwithout revealing his counselto his servants the prophets.

The Lord God has sworn by his holiness:

He is here:the one who forms the mountains,creates the wind,and reveals his thoughts to man,the one who makes the dawn out of darknessand strides on the heights of the earth.The Lord, the God of Armies, is his name.

The one who made the Pleiades and Orion,who turns darkness into dawnand darkens day into night,who summons the water of the seaand pours it out over the surface of the earth—the Lord is his name.

It will be like a man who flees from a liononly to have a bear confront him.He goes home and rests his hand against the wallonly to have a snake bite him.

So I will send you into exile beyond Damascus.” The Lord, the God of Armies, is his name. He has spoken.

A close relative and burner will remove his corpse from the house. He will call to someone in the inner recesses of the house, “Any more with you?”

He showed me this: The Lord was standing there by a vertical wall with a plumb line in his hand.

Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to King Jeroboam of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you right here in the house of Israel. The land cannot endure all his words,

He builds his upper chambersin the heavensand lays the foundation of his vaulton the earth.He summons the water of the seaand pours it out over the surface of the earth.The Lord is his name.

How Esau will be pillaged,his hidden treasures searched out!

On the day you stood aloof,on the day strangers captured his wealth,while foreigners entered his city gateand cast lots for Jerusalem,you were just like one of them.

Do not gloat over your brotherin the day of his calamity;do not rejoice over the people of Judahin the day of their destruction;do not boastfully mockin the day of distress.

The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his god. They threw the ship’s cargo into the sea to lighten the load. Meanwhile, Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel and had stretched out and fallen into a deep sleep.