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Amos4
Amos · Chapter 4
Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that
are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
The master 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
And ye shall go out at the breaches, every
cow at that which is
before her; and ye shall cast
them into the palace, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning,
and your tithes after three years:
And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim
and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Yisra'el, saith the master 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And also I have withholden the rain from you, when
there were
yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
So two
or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured
them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Mitsrayim: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
I have overthrown
some of you, as Elohim overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Yisra'el:
and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy Elohim, O Yisra'el.
For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what
is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), The Elohim of hosts,
is his name.
Nevi'im
Amos5
Amos · Chapter 5
Hear ye this word which I take up against you,
even a lamentation, O house of Yisra'el.
The virgin of Yisra'el is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land;
there is none to raise her up.
For thus saith the master 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH); The city that went out
by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth
by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Yisra'el.
For thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) unto the house of Yisra'el, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.
Seek 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Yoseph, and devour
it, and
there be none to quench
it in Bethel.
Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
is his name:
That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
Forasmuch therefore as your treading
is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate
from their right.
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it
is an evil time.
Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), the Elohim of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) Elohim of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Yoseph.
Therefore 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), the Elohim of hosts, the master, saith thus; Wailing
shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
And in all vineyards
shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
Woe unto you that desire the day of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)! to what end
is
it for you? the day of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
is darkness, and not light.
As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
Shall not the day of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept
them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Yisra'el?
But ye have borne the mishkan of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your elohim, which ye made to yourselves.
Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), whose name
is The Elohim of hosts.
Nevi'im
Amos6
Amos · Chapter 6
Woe to them
that are at ease in Tsiyon, and trust in the mountain of Samaria,
which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Yisra'el came!
Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines:
be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?
Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
That chant to the sound of the viol,
and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like Dawid;
That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Yoseph.
Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
The master 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath sworn by himself, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) the Elohim of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Ya'aqov, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
And a man’s uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that
is
by the sides of the house,
Is there yet
any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
For, behold, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
Shall horses run upon the rock? will
one plow
there
with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?
But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Yisra'el, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) the Elohim of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.