The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Amos 3:5 (NASB)

Does a bird fall into a trap on the ground when there is no device in it?
Does a trap spring up from the earth when it captures nothing at all?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Amos 3:6 (NASB)

If a trumpet is blown in a city, will the people not tremble? If a disaster occurs in a city, has the Lord not brought it about?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Amos 3:7 (NASB)

Certainly the Lord God does nothing
Unless He reveals His secret plan
To His servants the prophets.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Amos 3:8 (NASB)

A lion has roared! Who will not fear?
The Lord God has spoken! Who can do anything but prophesy?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Amos 3:9 (NASB)

Proclaim on the citadels in Ashdod and on the citadels in the land of Egypt and say, “Assemble yourselves on the mountains
of Samaria and see the great panic within her and the oppressions in her midst.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Amos 3:10 (NASB)

But they do not know how to do what is right,” declares the Lord, “these who store up violence and devastation in their citadels.”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Amos 3:11 (NASB)

11 Therefore, this is what the Lord God says:

“An enemy, one surrounding the land,
Will take down your fortifications from you,
And your citadels will be looted.”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Amos 3:12 (NASB)

This is what the Lord says:

“Just as the shepherd snatches from the lion’s mouth a couple of legs or a piece of an ear,
So will the sons of Israel living in Samaria be snatched away—
With the corner of a bed and the cover of a couch!

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Amos 3:13 (NASB)

Hear and testify against the house of Jacob,”
Declares the Lord God, the God of armies.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Amos 3:14 (NASB)

“For on the day that I punish Israel’s offenses,
I will also punish the altars of Bethel;
The horns of the altar will be cut off,
And will fall to the ground

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Amos 3:15 (NASB)

I will also strike the winter house together with the summer house;
The houses of ivory will also perish,
And the great houses will come to an end,”
Declares the Lord.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Amos 4:1 (NASB)

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan,
who live on the mount of Samaria:
Who oppress the destitute
and abuse the needy;
Who say to your husbands,
“Bring us a drink!”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Amos 4:2 (NASB)

The Lord God has sworn by his holiness:
Truly days are coming upon you
when they shall drag you away with ropes,
your children with fishhooks;

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Amos 4:3 (NASB)

You shall go out through the breached walls
one in front of the other,
And you shall be exiled to Harmon—
oracle of the Lord.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Amos 4:4 (NASB)

Come to Bethel and sin,
to Gilgal and sin all the more!
Each morning bring your sacrifices,
every third day your tithes;

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Amos 4:5 (NASB)

Burn leavened bread as a thanksgiving sacrifice,
proclaim publicly your voluntary offerings,
For so you love to do, Israelites—
oracle of the Lord God.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Amos 4:6 (NASB)

Though I made your teeth
clean of food in all your cities,
and made bread scarce in all your dwellings,
Yet you did not return to me—
oracle of the Lord.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Amos 4:7 (NASB)

And I withheld the rain from you
when the harvest was still three months away;
I sent rain upon one city
but not upon another;
One field was watered by rain,
but the one I did not water dried up;

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Amos 4:8 (NASB)

Two or three cities staggered to another to drink water
but were not satisfied;
Yet you did not return to me—
oracle of the Lord.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Amos 4:9 (NASB)

I struck you with blight and mildew;
locusts devoured your gardens and vineyards,
the caterpillar consumed your fig trees and olive trees;
Yet you did not return to me—
oracle of the Lord.