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Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
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.
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said unto him, Say on.
And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah had not many sons; therefore they were in one reckoning, according to their father's house.
And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.
And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.
The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.
Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;
Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,
Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer.
There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.
