The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Amos 6:10 (WEB)

“When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention Yahweh’s name.’
 
Amos 6:11 (WEB)

“For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces,
and the little house into bits.
 
Amos 6:12 (WEB)

Do horses run on the rocky crags?
Does one plow there with oxen?
But you have turned justice into poison,
and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;
 
Amos 6:13 (WEB)

you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say,
‘Haven’t we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?’
 
Amos 6:14 (WEB)

For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, house of Israel,”
says Yahweh, the God of Armies;
“and they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah.”
 
Amos 7:1 (WEB)

Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth;
and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s harvest.
 
Amos 7:2 (WEB)

When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
 
Amos 7:4 (WEB)

Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep,
and would have devoured the land.
 
Amos 7:7 (WEB)

Thus he showed me and behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
 
Amos 7:8 (WEB)

Yahweh said to me, “Amos, what do you see?”

I said, “A plumb line.”

Then the Lord said, “Behold, I will set a plumb line in the middle of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.
 
Amos 7:9 (WEB)

The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam
with the sword.”
 
Amos 7:10 (WEB)

Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the middle
of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.
 
Amos 7:11 (WEB)

For Amos says, ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’”
 
Amos 7:12 (WEB)

Amaziah also said to Amos, “You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
 
Amos 7:13 (WEB)

but don’t prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!”
 
Amos 7:14 (WEB)

Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs
 
Amos 7:15 (WEB)

and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’
 
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