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The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.
And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures.
There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.
The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.
For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.
The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.
But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into their privy chambers.
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah, who with his brethren and sons were twelve:
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
And there were eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets.
For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.
