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What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.
Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.
The sons of Jehieli; Zetham, and Joel his brother, which were over the treasures of the house of the LORD.
And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.
My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.
And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.
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.
Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;
But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.
A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
