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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.
Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.
And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them: for to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.
And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?
And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul's hand.
And when Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, he went and entered into the castle, and told Paul.
For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened.
That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.
And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul.
But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
