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From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?
Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,
And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things which thou sentest to me for: and I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.
Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.
And Pharaoh-nechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,
And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:
From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.
Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
And the sons of Nadab; Seled, and Appaim: but Seled died without children.
And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.
Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
The sower soweth the word.
