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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 Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre.
And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:
The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him fourscore males.
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.
And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drave them out from before you, and gave you their land;
These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among three mighty men.
Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: but make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.
As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
And he shall take off from it all the fat of the bullock for the sin offering; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?
Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place.
And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.
