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Woe to you who are longing for the day of the LORD, For what purpose will the day of the LORD be to you? It will be darkness and not light;

"Did you present Me with sacrifices and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, house of Israel?

"You also carried along Sikkuth your king and Kiyyun, your images, the star of your gods which you made for yourselves.

Who improvise to the sound of the harp, And like David have composed songs for themselves,

Then one's uncle, or his undertaker, will lift him up to carry out his bones from the house, and he will say to the one who is in the innermost part of the house, "Is anyone else with you?" And that one will say, "No one." Then he will answer, "Keep quiet! For the name of the LORD is not to be mentioned."

For behold, the LORD is going to command that the great house be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.

You who rejoice in Lodebar, And say, "Have we not by our own strength taken Karnaim for ourselves?"

"For behold, I am going to raise up a nation against you, House of Israel," declares the LORD God of armies, "And they will torment you from the entrance of Hamath To the brook of the Arabah."

And it came about, when it had finished eating the vegetation of the land, that I said, "Lord GOD, please pardon! How can Jacob stand? For he is small."

Then I said, "Lord GOD, please stop! How can Jacob stand? For he is small."

"For this is what Amos says: 'Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will certainly go from its land into exile.'"

"But do not prophesy at Bethel any longer, for it is a sanctuary of the king and a royal residence."

Then Amos replied to Amaziah, "I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet; for I am a herdsman and a grower of sycamore figs.

And He said, "What do you see, Amos?" And I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the LORD said to me, "The end has come for My people Israel. I will not spare them any longer.

So as to buy the helpless for money, And the needy for a pair of sandals, And that we may sell the refuse of the wheat?"

"Then I will turn your festivals into mourning, And all your songs into songs of mourning; And I will put sackcloth around everyone's waist, And baldness on every head. And I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, And the end of it will be like a bitter day.

"Behold, days are coming," declares the Lord GOD, "When I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, But rather for hearing the words of the LORD.

"As for those who swear by the guilt of Samaria, And say, 'As your god lives, Dan,' And, 'As the way of Beersheba lives,' They will fall and not rise again."

"And though they go into captivity before their enemies, From there I will command the sword and it will kill them, And I will set My eyes against them for harm and not for good."

The One who builds His upper chambers in the heavens And has founded His vaulted dome over the earth, He who calls for the waters of the sea And pours them out on the face of the earth, The LORD is His name.