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They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.

Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.

Escape will fail the swift, the strong will not prevail by his strength, and the mighty will not save his life.

The archer will not stand his ground, the fleet of foot will not escape, and the horseman will not save his life.

Does a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Does a young lion growl in his den if he has caught nothing?

Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.

The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: "Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind, and reveals His thoughts to man, the One who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth, the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name."

He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth-the LORD is His name-

It will be like a man who flees from a lion only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall only to have a serpent bite him.

The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself-the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: "I abhor Jacob's pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it."

This is what He showed me: Behold, the Lord was standing by a wall true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand.

Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words,

He builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His vault upon the earth. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth. The LORD is His name.

But how Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures sought out!

On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.

The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the ship's cargo into the sea to lighten the load. But Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.

From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the LORD his God,

Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.

On the first day of his walk, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!"