The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Amos 4:10 (NASB)

I sent upon you pestilence like that of Egypt;
with the sword I killed your young men and your captured horses,
and to your nostrils I brought the stench of your camps;
Yet you did not return to me—
oracle of the Lord.
 
Amos 4:11 (NASB)

I overthrew you
as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah;
you were like a brand plucked from the fire,
Yet you did not return to me—
oracle of the Lord.
 
Amos 4:12 (NASB)

Therefore thus I will do to you, Israel:
and since I will deal thus with you,
prepare to meet your God, O Israel!
 
Amos 4:13 (NASB)

The one who forms mountains and creates winds,
and declares to mortals their thoughts;
Who makes dawn into darkness
and strides upon the heights of the earth,
the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!
 
Amos 5:2 (NIV)

“Fallen is Virgin Israel,
never to rise again,
deserted in her own land,
with no one to lift her up.”
 
Amos 5:3 (NIV)

This is what the Sovereign Lord says to Israel:

‘Your city that marches out a thousand strong
will have only a hundred left;
your town that marches out a hundred strong
will have only ten left.’
 
Amos 5:5 (NIV)

do not seek Bethel,
do not go to Gilgal,
do not journey to Beersheba.
For Gilgal will surely go into exile,
and Bethel will be reduced to nothing.’
 
Amos 5:6 (NIV)

Seek the Lord and live,
or he will sweep through the tribes of Joseph like a fire;
it will devour them,
and Bethel will have no one to quench it.
 
Amos 5:8 (NIV)

He who made the Pleiades and Orion,
who turns midnight into dawn
and darkens day into night,
who calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out over the face of the land –
the Lord is his name.
 
Amos 5:10 (NIV)

There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court
and detest the one who tells the truth.
 
Amos 5:11 (NIV)

You levy a straw tax on the poor
and impose a tax on their grain.
Therefore, though you have built stone mansions,
you will not live in them;
though you have planted lush vineyards,
you will not drink their wine.
 
Amos 5:12 (NIV)

For I know how many are your offences
and how great your sins.

There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes
and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.
 
Amos 5:14 (NIV)

Seek good, not evil,
that you may live.
Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you,
just as you say he is.
 
Amos 5:15 (NIV)

15 Hate evil, love good;
maintain justice in the courts.
Perhaps the Lord God Almighty will have mercy
on the remnant of Joseph.
 
Amos 5:16 (NIV)

Therefore this is what the Lord, the Lord God Almighty, says:

‘There will be wailing in all the streets
and cries of anguish in every public square.
The farmers will be summoned to weep
and the mourners to wail.
 
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