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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.
They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.
What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?
Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth.
Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.
But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.
For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.
Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court round about the gate.
And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron.
The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.
(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.
And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
