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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.
And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.
In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;
For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.
And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:
Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts:
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.
And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed!
Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear upon their shoulders.
For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,
And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.
Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.
By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.
