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\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
words
of
Amos,
who
was
among
the herdsmen
of
Tekoa;
what
he
saw
about
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 earth-shock.
\VS{2}And
he
said,
The
Lord
will
give
a lion's
cry
from
Zion,
his
voice
will
be sounding
from
Jerusalem;
and
the fields
of
the keepers
of sheep
will
become
dry,
and
the
top
of
Carmel
will
be wasted away.
\VS{3}These
are
the words
of
the
Lord:
For
three
crimes
of
Damascus,
and
for
four,
I
will
not
let
its fate
be changed;
because
they
have
been crushing
Gilead
with
iron grain-crushing instruments.
\VS{4}And
I
will
send
a
fire into
the
house
of
Hazael,
burning
up
the great
houses
of
Ben-hadad.
\VS{5}And
I
will
have
the locks
of
the door
of
Damascus
broken,
and
him
who
is
seated
in power
cut
off
from
the
valley
of
Aven,
and
him
in whose hand
is
the
rod
from
the
house
of
Eden;
and
the
people
of
Aram
will
go
away
as prisoners
into
Kir,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{6}These
are
the words
of
the
Lord:
For
three
crimes
of
Gaza,
and
for
four,
I
will
not
let
its fate
be changed;
because
they
took all
the
people
away prisoners,
to
give
them
up
to
Edom.
\VS{7}And
I
will
send
a
fire
on
the
wall
of
Gaza,
burning
up
its great houses:
\VS{8}Him
who
is
seated
in
power
I
will
have
cut
off
from
Ashdod,
and
him
in whose
hand
is
the
rod
from
Ashkelon;
and
my
hand
will
be
turned
against
Ekron,
and
the
rest
of
the
Philistines
will
come
to
destruction,
says
the
Lord
God.
\VS{9}These
are
the words
of
the
Lord:
For
three
crimes
of
Tyre,
and
for
four,
I
will
not
let
its fate
be changed;
because
they
gave
up all
the
people prisoners
to
Edom,
without giving
a
thought
to
the brothers'
agreement
between
them.
\VS{10}And
I
will
send
a
fire
on
the
wall
of
Tyre,
burning
up
its great houses.
\VS{11}These
are
the words
of
the
Lord:
For
three
crimes
of
Edom,
and
for
four,
I
will
not
let
its fate
be changed;
because
his
sword
was
turned
against
his
brother,
without pity,
and
his
wrath
was burning
at
all times,
and
he
was
angry
for
ever.
\VS{12}And
I
will
send
a
fire
on
Teman,
burning
up
the great houses
of
Bozrah.
\VS{13}These
are
the words
of
the
Lord:
For
three
crimes
of
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
for
four,
I
will
not
let
its fate
be changed;
because
in
Gilead
they
had
women
with
child cut
open,
so
that
they
might
make
wider
the limits
of
their
land.
\VS{14}And
I
will make
a
fire
in
the
wall
of
Rabbah,
burning
up
its great houses,
with loud
cries
in
the
days
of
war,
with
a
storm
in
the
day
of
the great wind:
\VS{15}And
their
king
will
be
made prisoner,
he
and
his
captains
together,
says
the
Lord.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}These
are
the words
of
the
Lord:
For
three
crimes
of
Moab,
and
for
four,
I
will
not
let
its fate
be changed;
because
he
had
the
bones
of
the
king
of
Edom
burned
to dust.
\VS{2}And
I
will
send
a
fire
on
Moab,
burning
up
the great houses
of
Kerioth:
and
death
will come
on
Moab
with
noise
and outcries
and
the
sound
of
the
horn:
\VS{3}And
I
will
have
the
judge
cut
off
from
among
them,
and
all
their
captains
I
will put
to death
with
him,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{4}These
are
the
words
of
the
Lord:
For
three
crimes
of
Judah,
and
for
four,
I
will
not
let
its fate
be changed;
because
they
have given
up
the
law
of
the
Lord,
and
have
not
kept
his
rules;
and
their
false ways,
in
which
their
fathers
went,
have
made
them
go
out
of
the right
way.
\VS{5}And
I
will
send
a
fire
on
Judah,
burning
up
the great houses
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{6}These
are
the words
of
the
Lord:
For
three
crimes
of
Israel,
and
for
four,
I
will
not
let
its fate
be changed;
because
they
have given
the upright
man
for
silver,
and
the
poor
for
the
price
of
two
shoes;
\VS{7}Crushing
the
head
of
the
poor,
and
turning
the steps
of
the gentle
out
of
the
way:
and
a
man
and
his
father
go
in
to
the
same
young
woman, putting shame
on
my
holy
name:
\VS{8}By
every
altar
they
are
stretched
on
clothing taken
from
those
who
are
in
their debt,
drinking
in
the
house
of
their
god
the
wine
of
those
who
have
made payment
for wrongdoing.
\VS{9}Though
I sent
destruction
on
the
Amorite
before
them,
who
was
tall
as
the
cedar
and
strong
as
the oak-tree, cutting
off
his
fruit
from
on
high
and
his
roots
from
under
the earth.
\VS{10}And
I
took
you
up
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt, guiding
you
for
forty
years
in
the waste
land,
so
that
you might
take
for
your heritage
the
land
of
the
Amorite.
\VS{11}And some
of
your
sons
I made
prophets,
and some
of
your
young
men
I made separate
for myself.
Is
it
not
even
so,
O
children
of
Israel?
says
the
Lord.
\VS{12}But
to
those
who
were separate
you
gave
wine
for
drink;
and
to
the
prophets
you
said,
Be
prophets
no
longer.
\VS{13}See,
I
am crushing
you
down,
as
one
is crushed
under
a
cart
full
of grain.
\VS{14}And
flight
will
be impossible
for
the quick-footed,
and
the force
of
the
strong
will become feeble,
and
the
man
of war
will
not
get
away safely:
\VS{15}And
the bowman
will
not keep
his
place;
he
who
is quick-footed
will
not
get
away safely:
and
the
horseman
will
not keep
his
life.
\VS{16}And
he
who
is without fear
among
the fighting
men
will go
in
flight without
his clothing
in
that
day,
says
the
Lord.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Give ear
to
this
word
which
the
Lord
has
said
against
you,
O
children
of
Israel,
against
all
the
family
which
I
took
up
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
saying,
\VS{2}You
only
of
all
the
families
of
the
earth
have
I taken
care
of:
for
this
reason
I
will send
punishment
on
you
for
all
your
sins.
\VS{3}Is
it possible
for
two
to go walking
together,
if
not
by agreement?
\VS{4}Will
a
lion
give
his loud
cry
in
the woodland
when
no
food
is
there?
will
the
voice
of
the
young
lion
be sounding
from
his hole
if
he
has
taken
nothing?
\VS{5}Is
it possible
for
a
bird
to
be
taken
in
a net
on
the
earth
where
no net
has
been
put
for
him?
will
the net
come
up
from
the
earth
if
it
has
taken
nothing
at
all?
\VS{6}If
the
horn
is
sounded
in
the
town
will
the
people
not
be full
of
fear?
will
evil
come
on
a
town
if
the
Lord
has
not
done
it?
\VS{7}Certainly
the
Lord
will
do
nothing
without
making clear
his
secret
to
his
servants,
the
prophets.
\VS{8}The cry
of
the
lion
is sounding;
who
will
not
have
fear?
The
Lord
God
has
said
the
word;
is
it possible
for
the
prophet
to keep quiet?
\VS{9}Give
out
the
news
in
the
great houses
of Assyria
and
in
the
land
of
Egypt,
and
say, Come
together
on
the
mountains
of
Samaria,
and
see
what
great outcries
are
there,
and
what cruel
acts
are done
in
it.
\VS{10}For
they
have
no
knowledge
of
how
to
do
what
is right,
says
the
Lord,
who
are storing
up
violent
acts
and
destruction
in
their great houses.
\VS{11}For
this
reason,
says
the
Lord,
an attacker
will
come, shutting
in
the
land
on
every
side;
and
your
strength
will
come
down
and
your great houses
will
be made waste.
\VS{12}These
are
the
words
of
the
Lord:
As
the keeper
of sheep takes
out
of
the
mouth
of
the
lion
two
legs
or part
of
an
ear;
so
will
the
children
of
Israel
be
made safe,
who
are resting
in
Samaria
on seats
of honour
or
on
the silk cushions
of
a
bed.
\VS{13}Give ear
now,
and
give
witness
against
the
family
of
Jacob,
says
the
Lord
God,
the
God
of
armies;
\VS{14}For
in
the
day
when
I
give
Israel
punishment
for
his sins,
I
will send
punishment
on
the
altars
of Beth-el,
and
the
horns
of
the
altar
will
be
cut
off
and
come
down
to
the
earth.
\VS{15}And
I
will send
destruction
on
the
winter
house
with
the
summer
house;
the
ivory
houses
will
be falling
down
and
the
great
houses
will
come
to
an
end,
says
the
Lord.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Give ear
to
this
word,
you
cows
of
Bashan,
who
are
in
the
hill
of
Samaria,
by
whom
the
poor
are kept
down,
and
those
in
need
are
crushed;
who
say
to
their
lords,
Get
out
the wine
and
give
us
drink.
\VS{2}The
Lord
God
has
taken
an
oath
by
his
holy name,
that
the
days
are
coming
when
they
will
take
you
away
with hooks,
and
the
rest
of
you
with fish-hooks.
\VS{3}And you
will
go
out
through
the broken places,
every
one
going
straight
before
her,
and you
will
be
sent
into
Harmon,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{4}Come
to Beth-el
and
do evil;
to
Gilgal, increasing
the
number
of
your sins;
come
with
your
offerings
every
morning
and
your tenths
every
three
days:
\VS{5}Let
that
which
is
leavened
be
burned
as
a praise-offering,
let
the news
of
your free
offerings
be
given out publicly;
for
this
is pleasing
to
you,
O
children
of
Israel,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{6}But
in
all
your
towns
I
have
kept
food
from
your
teeth,
and
in
all
your
places
there
has
been need
of
bread:
and
still
you
have
not
come
back
to
me,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{7}And
I
have
kept
back
the
rain
from
you,
when
it
was
still
three
months
before
the grain-cutting:
I
sent
rain
on
one
town
and
kept
it
back
from
another:
one
part
was
rained
on,
and
the
part
where
there
was
no
rain became
a waste.
\VS{8}So
two
or
three
towns
went wandering
to
one
town looking
for
water,
and
did
not
get
enough:
and
still
you
have
not
come
back
to
me,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{9}I
have
sent destruction
on
your fields
by burning
and
disease:
the
increase
of
your
gardens
and
your vine-gardens,
your fig-trees
and
your olive-trees,
has
been
food
for worms:
and
still
you
have
not
come
back
to
me,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{10}I
have
sent disease
among
you,
as
it
was
in
Egypt:
I
have
put
your
young
men
to
the
sword,
and
have
taken
away
your
horses;
I
have
made
the evil smell
from
your tents
come
up
to
your
noses:
and
still
you
have
not
come
back
to
me,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{11}And
I
have
sent destruction
among
you,
as
when
God
sent destruction
on
Sodom
and
Gomorrah,
and
you
were
like
a
burning stick pulled
out
of
the
fire:
and
still
you
have
not
come
back
to
me,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{12}So
this
is
what
I
will
do
to
you,
O
Israel:
and
because
I
will
do
this
to
you,
be
ready
for
a meeting
with
your
God,
O
Israel.
\VS{13}For
see,
he
who
gave form
to
the
mountains
and
made
the
wind, giving knowledge
of
his purpose
to
man,
who
makes
the
morning dark,
and
is walking
on
the
high
places
of
the
earth:
the
Lord,
the
God
of
armies,
is
his
name.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Give ear
to
this
word,
my
song
of
sorrow
over
you,
O children
of
Israel.
\VS{2}The
virgin
of
Israel
has
been made low,
never
again
to
be lifted
up:
she
is stretched
out
by
herself
on
her
land;
there
is
no
one
to put
her
on
her feet
again.
\VS{3}For these
are
the words
of
the
Lord
God:
The
town
which
was
able
to
send
out
a
thousand,
will
have only
a
hundred;
and
that
which
sent
out
a
hundred,
will
have only
ten,
in
Israel.
\VS{4}For these
are
the words
of
the
Lord
to
the children
of
Israel: Let
your hearts
be
turned
to
me,
so
that
you
may
have
life:
\VS{5}Do
not
be
looking
for help
to Beth-el,
and
do
not
go
to
Gilgal,
or
make
your way
to Beer-sheba:
for
Gilgal
will
certainly
be
taken prisoner,
and Beth-el
will
come
to
nothing.
\VS{6}Go
to
the
Lord
for help
so
that
you
may
have
life;
for
fear
that
he
may come
like
fire bursting
out
in
the
family
of
Joseph, causing destruction,
and
there
will
be
no
one
to
put
it
out
in Beth-el.
\VS{7}You
who
make
the work
of judging
a bitter thing, crushing down
righteousness
to
the
earth;
\VS{8}Go
for help
to
him
who
makes
Orion
and
the
Pleiades,
by
whom
the
deep
dark
is
turned
into
morning,
who
makes
the
day
black
with
night;
whose voice
goes
out
to
the
waters
of
the
sea, sending
them
out
over
the
face
of
the
earth:
the
Lord
is
his
name;
\VS{9}Who sends sudden
destruction
on
the
strong,
so
that
destruction
comes
on
the walled town.
\VS{10}They
have
hate
for
him
who
makes protest
against evil
in
the public place,
and
he whose words
are upright
is disgusting
to
them.
\VS{11}So
because
the
poor man
is crushed
under
your feet,
and
you
take taxes
from
him
of
grain:
you
have
made
for
yourselves
houses
of
cut
stone,
but
you
will
not
take
your rest
in
them;
the fair vine-gardens
planted
by
your hands
will
not
give
you
wine.
\VS{12}For
I
have seen
how
your evil-doing
is increased
and
how
strong
are
your
sins,
you troublers
of
the upright,
who
take rewards
and do wrong
to
the cause
of
the
poor
in
the public place.
\VS{13}So
the
wise
will say nothing
in
that
time;
for
it
is
an
evil
time.
\VS{14}Go
after
good
and
not
evil,
so
that
life
may
be yours:
and
so
the
Lord,
the
God
of
armies,
will
be
with
you,
as
you
say.
\VS{15}Be haters
of
evil
and
lovers
of
good,
and let
right
be
done
in
the public
place:
it
may
be
that
the
Lord,
the
God
of
armies,
will
have
mercy
on
the
rest
of
Joseph.
\VS{16}So
these
are
the words
of
the
Lord,
the
God
of
armies,
the
Lord:
There
will
be weeping
in
all
the
open spaces;
and
in
all
the
streets
they
will
say,
Sorrow!
sorrow!
and
they
will get
in
the
farmer
to
the weeping,
and
the makers
of
sad songs
to give
cries
of grief.
\VS{17}In
all
the vine-gardens
there
will
be cries
of grief:
for
I
will
go
through
among
you,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{18}Sorrow
to
you
who
are looking
for
the
day
of
the
Lord!
what
is
the
day
of
the
Lord
to
you?
it
is
dark
and
not
light.
\VS{19}As
if
a
man, running
away
from
a
lion,
came
face
to
face
with
a
bear;
or
went
into
the
house
and
put
his
hand
on
the
wall
and got
a bite
from
a
snake.
\VS{20}Will
not
the
day
of
the
Lord
be
dark
and
not
light?
even very
dark,
with
no
light
shining
in
it?
\VS{21}Your
feasts
are disgusting
to
me,
I
will
have
nothing
to do
with
them;
I
will take
no delight
in
your holy meetings.
\VS{22}Even
if
you
give
me
your burned
offerings
and
your
meal
offerings,
I
will
not
take
pleasure
in
them:
I
will
have
nothing
to
do
with
the peace-offerings
of
your fat beasts.
\VS{23}Take
away
from
me
the
noise
of
your
songs;
my ears
are shut
to
the
melody
of
your
instruments.
\VS{24}But let
the
right go rolling
on
like
waters,
and
righteousness
like an
ever-flowing
stream.
\VS{25}Did
you
come
to
me
with
offerings
of beasts
and
meal
offerings
in
the waste land
for
forty
years,
O
Israel?
\VS{26}Truly,
you
will
take
up Saccuth
your king
and Kaiwan
your
images,
the
star
of
your
god,
which
you
made
for
yourselves.
\VS{27}And
I
will send
you
away
as prisoners farther than
Damascus,
says
the
Lord,
whose
name
is
the
God
of
armies.

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Sorrow
to
those
who
are resting
in comfort
in
Zion,
and
to
those
who
have no fear
of danger
in
the
mountain
of
Samaria,
the noted
men
of
the chief
of
the
nations,
to whom
the
people
of
Israel
come!
\VS{2}Go
on
to
Calneh
and
see;
and
from
there
go
to Hamath
the
great;
then
go
down
to
Gath
of
the
Philistines:
are
you
better
than
these
kingdoms?
or
is
your
land wider
than theirs?
\VS{3}You who
put far
away
the
evil
day, causing
the rule
of
the
violent
to
come
near;
\VS{4}Who
are resting
on
beds
of
ivory, stretched
out
on soft seats, feasting
on
lambs
from
the
flock
and young oxen
from
the cattle-house;
\VS{5}Making foolish
songs
to
the
sound
of corded
instruments,
and designing
for
themselves
instruments
of
music,
like
David;
\VS{6}Drinking
wine
in
basins, rubbing
themselves
with
the best
oils;
but
they
have
no grief
for
the
destruction
of
Joseph.
\VS{7}So
now
they will
go
away prisoners
with
the
first
of those
who are
made prisoners,
and
the loud cry
of those
who
were stretched out will come
to
an end.
\VS{8}The
Lord
God
has taken
an
oath
by
himself,
says
the
Lord,
the
God
of
armies:
the
pride
of
Jacob
is disgusting
to
me,
and
I
have
hate
for
his
great houses:
so
I
will give
up
the
town
with everything
in
it.
\VS{9}Then
it
will
come
about
that
if
there
are still
ten
men
in
a
house,
death
will overtake
them.
\VS{10}And
when
a man's relation,
even
the
one
who
is responsible
for burning
his
body, lifting
him
up
to
take
his
bones
out
of
the
house,
says
to
him
who
is
in
the inmost
part
of
the
house,
Is
there
still
anyone
with
you?
and
he
says,
No;
then
he
will
say,
Keep
quiet,
for
the
name
of
the
Lord
may
not
be
named.
\VS{11}For
see,
at
the
order
of
the
Lord
the
great
house
will
be full
of cracks
and
the
little
house
will
be broken.
\VS{12}Is
it possible
for
horses
to go
running
on
the
rock? may
the sea
be ploughed
with
oxen?
for
the
right
to
be
turned
by
you
into
poison,
and
the
fruit
of
righteousness
into
a bitter plant?
\VS{13}You whose
joy
is
in
a
thing
of
no value,
who
say,
Have
we
not
taken
for ourselves
horns
by
the
strength
which
is ours?
\VS{14}For
see,
I
will send
against
you
a
nation,
O
Israel,
says
the
Lord,
the
God
of
armies, ruling
you cruelly
from
the
way
into
Hamath
as
far
as
the
stream
of
the
Arabah.

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}This
is
what
the
Lord
God let
me
see:
and
I
saw
that,
when
the growth
of
the late grass
was starting,
he
made
locusts;
it
was
the late growth
after
the king's cutting
was done.
\VS{2}And
it
came
about
that
after
they
had
taken
all
the
grass
of
the
land,
I
said,
O
Lord
God,
have mercy:
how
will
Jacob
be able
to keep
his
place?
for
he
is
small.
\VS{3}The
Lord, changing
his purpose
about
this,
said,
It
will
not
be.
\VS{4}This
is
what
the
Lord let
me
see:
and
I
saw
that
the
Lord
God sent
for
a
great
fire
to
be
the instrument
of
his punishment;
and,
after
burning
up
the
great
deep,
it
was
about
to put
an end
to
the Lord's heritage.
\VS{5}Then
said
I,
O
Lord
God,
let there
be
an end:
how
will
Jacob
be able
to keep
his place?
for
he
is
small.
\VS{6}The
Lord, changing
his purpose
about
this,
said,
And
this
will
not
be.
\VS{7}This
is
what
he let
me
see:
and
I
saw
the
Lord
stationed
by
a
wall made straight
by
a weighted
line,
and
he
had
a weighted
line
in
his
hand.
\VS{8}And
the
Lord
said
to
me,
Amos,
what
do
you
see?
And
I
said,
A weighted
line.
Then
the
Lord
said,
See,
I
will
let
down
a weighted
line
among
my
people
Israel;
never
again
will
my eyes
be shut
to
their sin:
\VS{9}And
the
high
places
of
Isaac
will
be unpeopled,
and
the
holy
places
of
Israel
will
be
made
waste;
and
I
will
come
up
against
the
family
of
Jeroboam
with
the
sword.
\VS{10}Then
Amaziah,
the
priest
of Beth-el,
sent
to
Jeroboam,
king
of
Israel,
saying,
Amos
has
made designs
against
you
among
the
people
of
Israel:
the
land
is troubled
by
his
words.
\VS{11}For
Amos
has
said,
Jeroboam
will
be
put
to
the
sword,
and
Israel
will
certainly
be
taken
away
as
a prisoner
out
of
his
land.
\VS{12}And
Amaziah
said
to
Amos, O
seer, go
in
flight
into
the
land
of
Judah,
and
there get
your living
by working
as
a
prophet:
\VS{13}But
be
a prophet
no
longer
at Beth-el:
for
it
is
the
holy
place
of
the
king,
and
the king's
house.
\VS{14}Then
Amos
in
answer
said
to
Amaziah,
I
am
no
prophet,
or
one
of
the
sons
of
the
prophets;
I
am
a herdman
and
one
who takes care
of sycamore-trees:
\VS{15}And
the
Lord
took
me
from
the
flock,
and
the
Lord
said
to
me, Go,
be
a
prophet
to
my
people
Israel.
\VS{16}Now
then,
give ear
to
the
word
of
the
Lord:
You
say,
Be
no
prophet
to
Israel,
and
say
not
a
word
against
the
people
of
Isaac.
\VS{17}So
this
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
Your
wife
will
be
a
loose
woman
in
the
town,
and
your
sons
and
your
daughters
will
be
put
to
the
sword,
and
your
land
will
be cut
up
into parts
by
a
line;
and
you
yourself
will
come
to
your end
in
an
unclean
land,
and
Israel
will
certainly
be
taken
away
a prisoner
out
of
his
land.

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}This
is
what
the
Lord
God let
me
see:
and
I
saw
a
basket
of
summer fruit.
\VS{2}And
he
said,
Amos,
what
do
you
see?
And
I
said,
A
basket
of
summer fruit.
Then
the
Lord
said
to
me,
The
end
has
come
to
my
people
Israel;
never
again
will
my eyes
be shut
to
their sin.
\VS{3}And
the
songs
of
the king's house
will
be cries
of pain
in
that
day,
says
the
Lord
God:
great
will
be
the number
of
the
dead
bodies,
and
everywhere
they
will put
them
out without
a word.
\VS{4}Give ear
to
this,
you
who
are crushing
the
poor,
and whose purpose
is
to put
an end
to
those
who
are
in need
in
the
land,
\VS{5}Saying,
When
will
the
new
moon be gone,
so
that we
may do trade
in
grain?
and
the
Sabbath,
so
that we
may put out
in
the market
the produce
of our fields? making
the
measure
small
and
the
price
great,
and trading falsely
with
scales
of
deceit;
\VS{6}Getting
the
poor
for
silver,
and
him who
is
in need
for
the
price
of two
shoes,
and taking
a
price
for
the waste parts
of
the
grain.
\VS{7}The
Lord
has taken
an
oath
by
the
pride
of
Jacob,
Truly
I
will
ever keep
in mind
all
their
works.
\VS{8}Will
not
the
land
be shaking
with fear
because
of
this,
and
everyone
in
it
have
sorrow?
and
all
of
it
will
be overflowing
like
the
River;
and
it
will
be
troubled
and
go
down again
like
the
River
of
Egypt.
\VS{9}And
it
will
come
about
in
that
day,
says
the
Lord
God,
that
I
will
make
the
sun
go down
in
the middle
of
the
day,
and
I
will
make
the
earth
dark
in
daylight:
\VS{10}Your
feasts
will
be
turned
into
sorrow
and
all
your melody
into
songs
of grief;
everyone
will
be clothed
with haircloth,
and
the
hair
of
every
head
will
be cut;
I
will
make
the weeping
like
that
for
an
only
son,
and
the
end
of
it
like
a
bitter
day.
\VS{11}See,
the
days
are
coming,
says
the
Lord
God,
when
I
will
send
times
of great
need
on
the
land,
not
need
of
food
or desire
for
water,
but
for
hearing
the
words
of
the
Lord.
\VS{12}And
they
will go wandering
from
sea
to
sea,
and
from
the
north
even
to
the
east, running
here
and
there
in
search
of
the
word
of
the
Lord,
and
they
will
not get
it.
\VS{13}In
that
day
the
fair
virgins
and
the
young
men
will
be feeble
from need
of water.
\VS{14}Those
who
make
their
oaths
by
the sin
of
Samaria
and
say,
By
the
life
of
your
God,
O
Dan;
and,
By
the
living
way
of Beer-sheba;
even
they
will
go
down,
never
again
to
be lifted
up.

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}I
saw
the
Lord
stationed
by
the side
of
the
altar, giving
blows
to
the
tops
of
the
pillars
so
that
the doorsteps
were shaking:
and
he
said,
I
will
let
all
of
them
be broken
with earth-shocks;
I
will
put
the
last
of
them
to
the
sword:
if
any
one
of
them goes
in
flight
he
will
not
get
away,
not
one
of
them
will
be safe.
\VS{2}Even
if
they
go deep
into
the underworld,
my
hand
will
take
them
up
from
there;
if
they
go
up
to
heaven,
I
will
get
them
down:
\VS{3}Though
they
take
cover
on
the
top
of
Carmel,
I
will go
in
search
of
them
and
get
them
out;
though
they
keep
themselves
from
my
eyes
in
the bed
of
the
sea,
I
will
give
orders
to
the great
snake
there
and
he
will
give
them
a bite:
\VS{4}And
though
they
are
taken
away
as
prisoners
by
their attackers,
even
there
will
I
give
orders
to
the
sword
to
put
them
to death:
my
eyes
will
be fixed
on
them
for
evil
and
not
for
good.
\VS{5}For
the
Lord,
the
God
of
armies,
is
he
at
whose
touch
the
land
is turned
to water,
and
everyone
in
it
will
be given
up
to sorrow;
all
of
it
will
be overflowing
like
the
River,
and
will
go
down again
like
the
River
of
Egypt;
\VS{6}It
is
he
who
makes
his rooms
in
the
heaven, basing
his arch
on
the
earth;
whose voice
goes
out
to
the
waters
of
the
sea,
and sends
them
flowing
over
the
face
of
the
earth;
the
Lord
is
his
name.
\VS{7}Are
you
not
as
the
children
of
the
Ethiopians
to
me,
O
children
of
Israel?
says
the
Lord.
Have
I
not
taken
Israel
up
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
and
the
Philistines
from
Caphtor,
and
the Aramaeans
from
Kir?
\VS{8}See,
the
eyes
of
the
Lord
are
on
the evil
kingdom,
and
I
will put
an end
to
it
in
all
the
earth;
but
I
will
not send complete
destruction
on
Jacob,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{9}For
see,
I
will
give
orders,
and
I
will
have
Israel moved
about
among
all
the
nations,
as
grain
is moved
about
by
the shaking
of
the tray,
but
not
the smallest seed
will
be
dropped
on
the
earth.
\VS{10}All
those
sinners
among
my
people
will
be
put
to
the
sword
who
say,
Evil
will
not
overtake
us
or
come face
to face
with
us.
\VS{11}In
that
day
I
will put
up
the tent
of
David
which
has
come
down,
and
make
good
its broken places;
and
I
will put
up
again
his damaged walls,
building
it
up
as
in
the
past;
\VS{12}So
that
the
rest
of
Edom
may
be
their heritage,
and
all
the
nations
who
have
been
named
by
my
name,
says
the
Lord,
who
is
doing
this.
\VS{13}See,
the
days
will
come,
says
the
Lord,
when
the ploughman
will
overtake
him
who
is cutting
the
grain,
and
the crusher
of
the
grapes
him
who
is
planting
seed;
and
sweet
wine
will
be dropping
from
the
mountains,
and
the
hills
will
be turned
into streams
of
wine.
\VS{14}And
I
will let
the fate
of
my
people
Israel
be changed,
and
they
will
be
building
up
again
the
waste
towns
and
living
in
them;
they
will
again
be planting vine-gardens
and taking
the
wine
for
their
drink;
and
they
will
make
gardens
and
get
the
fruit
of
them.
\VS{15}And
I
will
have
them
planted
in
their
land,
and
never
again
will
they
be
uprooted
from
their
land
which
I
have
given
them,
says
the
Lord
your
God.
\par }