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\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}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.
\VS{2}And
he
said,
Jehovah roareth
from
Zion,
and uttereth
his
voice
from
Jerusalem;
and
the
pastures
of
the
shepherds
mourn,
and
the
top
of
Carmel withereth.
\VS{3}Thus saith
Jehovah:
For
three
transgressions
of
Damascus,
and
for
four,
I
will
not
revoke [my sentence],
because
they
have
threshed
Gilead
with
threshing instruments
of
iron.
\VS{4}And
I
will
send
a
fire into
the
house
of
Hazael,
and
it
shall
devour
the
palaces
of
Ben-Hadad.
\VS{5}And
I
will
break
the
bar
of
Damascus,
and
cut
off
the
inhabitant
from
the
valley
of
Aven,
and
him
that holdeth
the sceptre
from Beth-Eden;
and
the
people
of
Syria
shall
go
into
captivity unto
Kir, saith
Jehovah.
\VS{6}Thus saith
Jehovah:
For
three
transgressions
of Gazah,
and
for
four,
I
will
not
revoke
its sentence;
because
they
carried
away
captive
the
whole
captivity,
to
deliver [them]
up
to
Edom.
\VS{7}And
I
will
send
a
fire
on
the
wall
of Gazah,
and
it shall
devour
the
palaces thereof.
\VS{8}And
I
will
cut
off
the
inhabitant
from
Ashdod,
and
him
that holdeth
the sceptre
from
Ashkelon,
and
I
will
turn
my
hand
against
Ekron;
and
the
remnant
of
the
Philistines
shall
perish, saith
the
Lord Jehovah.
\VS{9}Thus saith
Jehovah:
For
three
transgressions
of
Tyre,
and
for
four,
I
will
not
revoke
its sentence;
because
they
delivered
up
the
whole captivity
to
Edom,
and
remembered
not
the brotherly
covenant.
\VS{10}And
I
will
send
a
fire
on
the
wall
of
Tyre,
and
it shall
devour
the
palaces thereof.
\VS{11}Thus saith
Jehovah:
For
three
transgressions
of
Edom,
and
for
four,
I
will
not
revoke
its sentence;
because
he
pursued
his
brother
with
the
sword,
and cast
off
all pity;
and
his
anger
did
tear
continually,
and
he
kept
his
wrath
for
ever.
\VS{12}And
I
will
send
a
fire
upon
Teman,
and
it shall
devour
the
palaces
of
Bozrah.
\VS{13}Thus saith
Jehovah:
For
three
transgressions
of
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
for
four,
I
will
not
revoke
its sentence;
because
they
ripped
up
the
women
with
child
of
Gilead,
that
they
might
enlarge
their
border.
\VS{14}And
I
will
kindle
a
fire
in
the
wall
of
Rabbah,
and
it
shall
devour
the
palaces thereof,
with
shouting
in
the
day
of
battle,
with
a
tempest
in
the
day
of
the whirlwind.
\VS{15}And
their
king
shall
go
into captivity,
he
and
his
princes
together, saith
Jehovah.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Thus saith
Jehovah:
For
three
transgressions
of
Moab,
and
for
four,
I
will
not
revoke
its sentence;
because
he
burned
the
bones
of
the
king
of
Edom
into
lime.
\VS{2}And
I
will
send
a
fire
upon
Moab,
and
it
shall
devour
the
palaces
of Kerijoth;
and
Moab
shall
die
with
tumult,
with
shouting, [and]
with
the
sound
of
the
trumpet.
\VS{3}And
I
will
cut
off
the
judge
from
the
midst thereof,
and
will
slay
all
the
princes thereof
with
him, saith
Jehovah.
\VS{4}Thus saith
Jehovah:
For
three
transgressions
of
Judah,
and
for
four,
I
will
not
revoke
its sentence;
because
they
have despised
the
law
of
Jehovah,
and
have
not
kept
his
statutes;
and
their
lies
have
caused
them
to
err,
after
which
their
fathers
walked.
\VS{5}And
I
will
send
a
fire
upon
Judah,
and
it
shall
devour
the
palaces
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{6}Thus saith
Jehovah:
For
three
transgressions
of
Israel,
and
for
four,
I
will
not
revoke
its sentence;
because
they
have
sold
the
righteous
for
silver,
and
the
needy
for
a pair
of
shoes;
\VS{7}panting
after
the
dust
of
the
earth
on
the
head
of
the
poor,
and
turning
aside
the
way
of
the meek;
and
a
man
and
his
father
will
go
in unto
the [same] maid,
to
profane
my
holy
name.
\VS{8}And
they lay [themselves]
down
by
every
altar
upon
clothes taken
in pledge,
and
they
drink [in]
the
house
of
their
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 2:8 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
the
wine
of
the condemned.
\VS{9}But
I
destroyed
the
Amorite
before
them,
whose
height
was
as
the
height
of
the
cedars,
and
he
was
strong
as
the
oaks;
but
I
destroyed
his
fruit
from
above,
and
his
roots
from
beneath.
\VS{10}And
I
brought
you
up
from
the
land
of
Egypt,
and led
you
forty
years
in
the
wilderness,
to
possess
the
land
of
the
Amorite.
\VS{11}And
I
raised
up
of
your
sons
for
prophets,
and
of
your
young
men
for Nazarites.
Is
it
not
even thus, ye
children
of
Israel? saith
Jehovah.
\VS{12}And ye
gave
the Nazarites
wine
to
drink;
and
commanded
the
prophets,
saying,
Prophesy
not.
\VS{13}Behold,
I
will press upon
you,
as
a
cart presseth
that
is
full
of
sheaves.
\VS{14}And
flight
shall
perish
from
the
swift,
and
the
strong
shall
not
strengthen
his force,
neither
shall
the
mighty
deliver
his
soul.
\VS{15}Neither
shall
he
stand
that handleth
the
bow;
and
the
swift
of
foot
shall
not
escape,
and
he
that rideth
the
horse
shall
not
deliver
his
soul;
\VS{16}and
he
that
is stout-hearted
among
the
mighty
shall
flee
away
naked
in
that
day, saith
Jehovah.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Hear
this
word
that
Jehovah hath
spoken
against
you,
children
of
Israel,
against
the
whole
family
that
I
brought
up
from
the
land
of
Egypt,
saying,
\VS{2}You
only
have
I
known
of
all
the
families
of
the
earth;
therefore
will
I
visit
upon
you
all
your
iniquities.
\VS{3}Shall
two walk
together
except
they
be
agreed?
\VS{4}Will
a
lion
roar
in
the
forest
when
he hath
no
prey?
Will
a
young
lion
cry
out
of
his
den
if
he
have
taken
nothing?
\VS{5}Can
a
bird
fall
in
a
snare
upon
the
earth
when
no gin [is laid]
for
him?
Will
the
snare
spring
up
from
the
earth
when
nothing
at
all hath
been
taken?
\VS{6}Shall
a
trumpet
be
blown
in
the
city,
and
the
people
not
be
afraid?
Shall
there
be
evil
in
a
city,
and
Jehovah
not
have
done [it]?
\VS{7}But
the
Lord Jehovah
will
do
nothing,
but
he revealeth
his
secret unto
his
servants
the
prophets.
\VS{8}The
lion hath
roared, —
who
will
not
fear?
The
Lord Jehovah hath
spoken, —
who
can
but
prophesy?
\VS{9}Publish
in
the
palaces
at
Ashdod,
and
in
the
palaces
in
the
land
of
Egypt,
and
say,
Assemble
yourselves
upon
the
mountains
of
Samaria,
and
behold
the
great uproar
in
the
midst thereof,
and
the
oppressions
that
are
within
her:
\VS{10}and
they
know
not
to
do right, saith
Jehovah,
who
store
up
violence
and plunder
in
their
palaces.
\VS{11}Therefore
thus saith
the
Lord Jehovah:
An adversary! —
even
round
about
the
land!
And
he
shall
bring
down thy
strength
from thee,
and thy
palaces
shall
be pillaged.
\VS{12}Thus saith
Jehovah:
Like
as
the
shepherd rescueth
out
of
the jaw
of
the
lion
two
legs,
or
a
piece
of
an
ear;
so
shall
the
children
of
Israel
be
rescued
that
sit
in
Samaria
in
the
corner
of
a
couch,
and
upon
the damask
of
a
bed.
\VS{13}Hear ye,
and testify
in
the
house
of
Jacob, saith
the
Lord Jehovah,
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 3:13 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
hosts,
\VS{14}that
in
the
day
that
I
shall
visit
the
transgressions
of
Israel
upon
him,
I
will
also
punish
the
altars
of
Bethel;
and
the
horns
of
the
altar
shall
be
cut
off,
and
fall
to
the
ground.
\VS{15}And
I
will
smite
the winter-house
with
the summer-house;
and
the
houses
of
ivory
shall
perish,
and
many
houses
shall
have
an
end, saith
Jehovah.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Hear
this
word, ye kine
of
Bashan,
that
are
in
the
mountain
of
Samaria,
that
oppress
the
poor,
that
crush
the
needy,
that
say
to
their
lords,
Bring,
and let
us
drink:
\VS{2}the
Lord Jehovah hath
sworn
by
his
holiness,
that
behold,
days
shall
come
upon
you,
when
he
will
take
you
away
with hooks,
and
your
posterity
with fish-hooks;
\VS{3}and ye
shall
go
out
by
the
breaches,
every
one
straight
before
her,
and ye
shall
be
cast
out
to
Harmon, saith
Jehovah.
\VS{4}Come
to
Bethel,
and
transgress;
at
Gilgal
multiply
transgression;
and
bring
your
sacrifices
in
the
morning,
your
tithes
every
three
days,
\VS{5}and
burn
a thank-offering
with
leaven,
and
proclaim, publish,
voluntary
offerings:
for
this pleaseth
you,
children
of
Israel, saith
the
Lord Jehovah.
\VS{6}And
I
also
have
given
you
cleanness
of
teeth
in
all
your
cities,
and want
of
bread
in
all
your
places;
yet ye
have
not
returned unto
me, saith
Jehovah.
\VS{7}And
I
also
have withholden
the
rain
from
you,
when
there
were
yet
three
months
to
the
harvest;
and
I
caused
it
to
rain
upon
one
city,
and
caused
it
not
to
rain
upon
another
city:
one piece [of
land]
was
rained
upon,
and
the piece whereupon
it
rained
not
withered.
\VS{8}And
two,
three,
cities
wandered unto
one
city,
to
drink
water,
and
were
not
satisfied:
yet
have ye
not
returned unto
me, saith
Jehovah.
\VS{9}I
have
smitten
you
with blasting
and
mildew;
the palmer-worm hath
devoured
the multitude
of
your
gardens,
and
your
vineyards,
and
your fig-trees
and
your olive-trees:
yet
have ye
not
returned unto
me, saith
Jehovah.
\VS{10}I
have
sent
among
you
the
pestilence
after
the
manner
of
Egypt:
your
young
men
have
I
slain
with
the
sword, taking
away captive
your
horses;
and
I
made
the
stench
of
your
camps
to
come
up,
even
into
your
nostrils:
yet
have ye
not
returned unto
me, saith
Jehovah.
\VS{11}I
have
overthrown
among
you,
like
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 4:11 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God's
overthrow
of
Sodom
and
Gomorrah,
and ye
were
as
a
brand
plucked
out
of
the
burning;
yet
have ye
not
returned unto
me, saith
Jehovah.
\VS{12}Therefore
thus
will
I
do unto thee,
O
Israel:
because
I
will
do
this unto thee,
prepare
to
meet thy
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 4:12 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
O
Israel.
\VS{13}For
behold,
he
who formeth
the
mountains,
and createth
the
wind,
and declareth unto
man
what
is
his thought,
who maketh
the
morning
darkness,
and treadeth
upon
the
high
places
of
the
earth, —
Jehovah,
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 4:13 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
hosts,
is
his
name.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Hear
this
word,
a
lamentation,
which
I
take
up
against
you,
O
house
of
Israel.
\VS{2}The
virgin
of
Israel
is
fallen;
she
shall
no
more
arise:
she
is
cast
down
upon
her
land;
there
is
none
to
raise
her
up.
\VS{3}For
thus saith
the
Lord Jehovah:
The
city
that
went
forth
a
thousand
shall
have
a
hundred
left,
and
that
which
went
forth
a
hundred
shall
have
ten
left,
for
the
house
of
Israel.
\VS{4}For
thus saith
Jehovah unto
the
house
of
Israel:
Seek ye
me,
and ye
shall
live.
\VS{5}And
seek
not
Bethel,
neither
go
to
Gilgal,
and
pass
not
to Beer-sheba;
for
Gilgal
shall
surely
go
into
captivity,
and
Bethel
shall
come
to nought.
\VS{6}Seek
Jehovah,
and ye
shall
live;
lest
he break
out
like
fire
in
the
house
of
Joseph,
and
devour [it],
and
there
be
none
to
quench [it]
in
Bethel.
\VS{7}Ye
who
turn
judgment
to
wormwood,
and cast down
righteousness
to
the
earth,
\VS{8}[seek
him]
that
made
the
Pleiades
and
Orion,
and turneth
the
shadow
of
death
into
the
morning,
and maketh
the
day
dark
with
night;
that calleth
for
the
waters
of
the
sea,
and poureth
them
out
upon
the
face
of
the
earth:
Jehovah
is
his
name.
\VS{9}He causeth
destruction
to break
forth suddenly
upon
the
strong,
and bringeth
destruction
upon
the
fortress.
\VS{10}They
hate
him that reproveth
in
the
gate,
and
they
abhor
him that speaketh
uprightly.
\VS{11}Forasmuch,
therefore,
as ye trample
upon
the
poor,
and
take
from
him presents
of
wheat: ye
have
built
houses
of
hewn
stone,
but ye
shall
not
dwell
in
them; ye
have
planted
pleasant
vineyards,
and ye
shall
not
drink
the
wine
of
them.
\VS{12}For
I
know
how manifold
are
your
transgressions
and
your
sins
mighty:
they afflict
the
just,
they
take
a
bribe,
and
they
turn
aside [the
right
of]
the
needy
in
the
gate.
\VS{13}Therefore
the prudent
shall keep silence
in
this
time;
for
it
is
an
evil
time.
\VS{14}Seek
good,
and
not
evil,
that ye
may
live;
and
so
Jehovah,
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 5:14 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
hosts,
shall
be
with
you,
as ye
say.
\VS{15}Hate
evil,
and
love
good,
and
establish
judgment
in
the
gate:
it
may
be
that
Jehovah,
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 5:15 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
hosts,
will
be gracious unto
the
remnant
of
Joseph.
\VS{16}Therefore
thus saith
Jehovah,
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 5:16 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
hosts,
the
Lord:
Wailing
shall
be
in
all broadways;
and
they
shall
say
in
all
the
streets,
Alas!
alas!
And
they
shall
call
the husbandman
to
mourning,
and
such
as
are skilful
of
lamentation
to
wailing.
\VS{17}And
in
all
vineyards
shall
be
wailing;
for
I
will
pass
through
the
midst
of thee, saith
Jehovah.
\VS{18}Woe unto
you
that
desire
the
day
of
Jehovah!
To
what end
is
the
day
of
Jehovah
for
you?
It
shall
be
darkness
and
not
light:
\VS{19}as
if
a
man
fled
from
a
lion,
and
a
bear
met
him;
or
went
into
the
house
and
leaned
his
hand
on
the
wall,
and
a
serpent bit
him.
\VS{20}Shall
not
the
day
of
Jehovah
be
darkness,
and
not
light?
even very
dark,
and
no
brightness
in
it?
\VS{21}I
hate,
I
despise
your
feasts,
and
I
will
not
smell [a sweet odour]
in
your
solemn
assemblies.
\VS{22}For
if ye
offer
up unto
me burnt-offerings
and
your oblations,
I
will
not
accept [them];
neither
will
I
regard
the peace-offerings
of
your fatted beasts.
\VS{23}Take
away
from
me
the
noise
of thy
songs,
and
I
will
not
hear
the
melody
of thy lutes;
\VS{24}but let
judgment
roll
down
as
waters,
and
righteousness
as an
ever-flowing
stream.
\VS{25}Did ye
bring unto
me
sacrifices
and oblations
in
the
wilderness
forty
years,
O
house
of
Israel?
\VS{26}Yea, ye
took
up
the tabernacle
of
your Moloch,
and Chiun
your
images,
the
star
of
your
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 5:26 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}god,
which ye
had
made
to
yourselves;
\VS{27}and
I
will cause
you
to
go
into
captivity
beyond
Damascus, saith
Jehovah,
whose
name
is
the
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
hosts.

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Woe
to
them
that
are
at
ease
in
Zion
and
that
are
secure
in
the
mountain
of
Samaria,
the renowned
of
the
first
of
the
nations,
to whom
the
house
of
Israel
come.
\VS{2}Pass unto
Calneh,
and
see;
and
from thence
go
to Hamath
the
great;
and
go
down
to
Gath
of
the
Philistines:
are
they
better
than
these
kingdoms?
or
their
border
greater
than
your
border?
\VS{3}Ye
that
put far
away
the
evil
day,
and cause
the
seat
of
violence
to
come
near;
\VS{4}that
lie
upon
beds
of
ivory,
and stretch
themselves
upon
their
couches,
and
eat
the
lambs
out
of
the
flock,
and
the
calves
from
the
midst
of
the
stall;
\VS{5}that chant
to
the
sound
of
the lute, [and] invent
them
instruments
of
music,
like
David;
\VS{6}that
drink
wine
in
bowls,
and
anoint
themselves
with
the chief ointments;
but
are
not grieved
for
the breach
of
Joseph.
\VS{7}Therefore
shall
they
now
go
captive,
with
the
first
that
go
captive,
and
the revelry
of
them
that stretched
themselves
shall
pass
away.
\VS{8}The
Lord
Jehovah hath
sworn
by
himself, saith
Jehovah,
the
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
hosts,
I abhor
the
pride
of
Jacob,
and
hate
his
palaces;
and
I
will
deliver
up
the
city
with
all
that
is therein.
\VS{9}And
it
shall
come
to
pass,
if
there
remain
ten
men
in
one
house,
that
they
shall
die.
\VS{10}And
a man's
uncle,
and
he
that
should burn
him,
shall
take
him
up
to
bring
out
the
bones
from
the
house,
and
shall
say unto
him
that
is
in
the
inner
parts
of
the
house,
Is
there
yet [any]
with thee?
and
he
shall
say,
None.
And
he
will
say,
Silence!
for
we
may
not
make
mention
of Jehovah's
name.
\VS{11}For
behold,
Jehovah commandeth,
and
he
will
smite
the
great
house
with
breaches,
and
the
little
house
with clefts.
\VS{12}Shall
horses
run
upon
the
rock?
will [men] plough [thereon]
with
oxen?
For ye
have
turned
judgment
into
gall,
and
the
fruit
of
righteousness
into
wormwood,
\VS{13}— ye
that
rejoice
in
a
thing
of nought,
that
say,
Have
we
not
taken
to
us
power
by
our own
strength?
\VS{14}For
behold,
O
house
of
Israel, saith
Jehovah
the
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
hosts,
I
will
raise
up
against
you
a
nation;
and
they
shall
afflict
you
from
the
entering
in
of
Hamath unto
the torrent
of
the
Arabah.

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Thus did
the
Lord Jehovah shew unto
me;
and
behold,
he
formed
locusts
in
the
beginning
of
the shooting
up
of
the latter growth,
and
behold,
it
was
the latter growth
after
the king's mowings.
\VS{2}And
it
came
to
pass,
when
they
had wholly
eaten
the
grass
of
the
land,
that
I
said,
O
Lord Jehovah,
forgive,
I
beseech thee!
How
shall
Jacob
arise?
for
he
is
small.
\VS{3}Jehovah
repented
for
this:
It
shall
not
be,
said
Jehovah.
\VS{4}Thus did
the
Lord Jehovah shew unto
me;
and
behold,
the
Lord Jehovah
called
to
contend
by
fire;
and
it
devoured
the
great
deep,
and
ate
up
the
inheritance.
\VS{5}Then
said
I,
O
Lord Jehovah,
cease,
I
beseech thee!
How
shall
Jacob
arise?
for
he
is
small.
\VS{6}Jehovah
repented
for
this:
This
also
shall
not
be,
said
the
Lord
Jehovah.
\VS{7}Thus did
he shew unto
me;
and
behold,
the
Lord
stood
upon
a
wall [made]
by
a plumb-line,
with
a plumb-line
in
his
hand.
\VS{8}And
Jehovah
said unto
me,
Amos,
what seest thou?
And
I
said,
A plumb-line.
And
the
Lord
said,
Behold,
I
will
set
a plumb-line
in
the
midst
of
my
people
Israel:
I
will
not
again
pass
by
them
any
more.
\VS{9}And
the
high
places
of
Isaac
shall
be
desolated,
and
the
sanctuaries
of
Israel
shall
be
laid
waste;
and
I
will
arise
against
the
house
of
Jeroboam
with
the
sword.
\VS{10}Then
Amaziah
the
priest
of
Bethel
sent
to
Jeroboam
king
of
Israel,
saying,
Amos hath
conspired
against thee
in
the
midst
of
the
house
of
Israel:
the
land
is
not
able
to bear
all
his
words.
\VS{11}For
thus
Amos saith:
Jeroboam
shall
die
by
the
sword,
and
Israel
shall
certainly
go
into
captivity
out
of
his
land.
\VS{12}And
Amaziah
said unto
Amos, [Thou]
seer, go,
flee
away
into
the
land
of
Judah,
and
eat
bread
there,
and
prophesy
there.
\VS{13}But
prophesy
not
again
any
more
at
Bethel;
for
it
is
the king's
sanctuary,
and
it
is
the
house
of
the
kingdom.
\VS{14}And
Amos
answered
and
said
to
Amaziah,
I
was
no
prophet,
neither
was
I
a prophet's
son;
but
I
was
a herdman,
and
a gatherer
of
sycamore fruit.
\VS{15}And
Jehovah
took
me
as
I
followed
the
flock,
and
Jehovah
said unto
me, Go,
prophesy unto
my
people
Israel.
\VS{16}And
now
hear thou
the
word
of
Jehovah: Thou sayest,
Prophesy
not
against
Israel,
and utter
not [words]
against
the
house
of
Isaac.
\VS{17}Therefore
thus saith
Jehovah: Thy
wife
shall
be
a
harlot
in
the
city,
and thy
sons
and thy
daughters
shall
fall
by
the
sword,
and thy
land
shall
be
divided
with
the
line;
and thou shalt
die
in
a
land
that
is
unclean;
and
Israel
shall
certainly
go
into
captivity,
out
of
his
land.

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Thus did Jehovah shew unto
me;
and
behold,
a
basket
of summer-fruit.
\VS{2}And
he
said,
Amos,
what seest thou?
And
I
said,
A
basket
of summer-fruit.
And
Jehovah
said unto
me,
The
end
is
come
upon
my
people
Israel:
I
will
not
again
pass
by
them
any
more.
\VS{3}And
the
songs
of
the
palace
shall
be howlings
in
that
day, saith
the
Lord Jehovah.
The
dead
bodies
shall
be
many;
in
every
place
they
shall
be
cast forth.
Silence!
\VS{4}Hear
this, ye
that pant
after
the
needy,
even
to cause
to fail
the
poor
of
the
land,
\VS{5}saying,
When
will
the
new
moon be gone,
that we
may
sell corn?
and
the
sabbath,
that we
may set forth
wheat? making
the
ephah
small
and
the
shekel
great,
and falsifying
the
balances
for
deceit:
\VS{6}that we
may
buy
the
poor
for
silver,
and
the
needy
for
a pair
of
shoes;
and
that we
may
sell
the
refuse
of
the
wheat.
\VS{7}Jehovah hath
sworn
by
the
glory
of
Jacob,
Certainly
I
will
never
forget
any
of
their
works.
\VS{8}Shall
not
the
land
tremble
for
this,
and
every
one
mourn
that dwelleth therein?
And
it
shall
wholly
rise
up
like
the
Nile;
and
it
shall surge
and sink
down,
as
the
river
of
Egypt.
\VS{9}And
it
shall
come
to
pass
in
that
day, saith
the
Lord Jehovah,
that
I
will
cause
the
sun
to
go down
at
noon,
and
I
will darken
the
land
in
the clear
day.
\VS{10}And
I
will
turn
your
feasts
into
mourning,
and
all
your
songs
into
lamentation;
and
I
will
bring
up
sackcloth
upon
all
loins,
and
baldness
upon
every
head;
and
I
will
make
it
as
the
mourning
for
an
only [son],
and
the
end thereof
as
a
bitter
day.
\VS{11}Behold,
days
come, saith
the
Lord
Jehovah,
when
I
will
send
a
famine
in
the
land;
not
a
famine
of
bread,
nor
a
thirst
for
water,
but
of
hearing
the
words
of
Jehovah.
\VS{12}And
they
shall
wander
from
sea
to
sea,
and
from
the
north
to
the
east;
they
shall run
to
and
fro
to
seek
the
word
of
Jehovah,
and
shall
not
find
it.
\VS{13}In
that
day
shall
the
fair
virgins
and
the
young
men
faint
for
thirst;
\VS{14}they
that
swear
by
the sin
of
Samaria,
and
say, [As] thy
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}god,
O
Dan, liveth!
and, [As]
the
way
of Beer-sheba liveth!
even
they
shall
fall,
and
never
rise
up
again.

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}I
saw
the
Lord
standing
upon
the
altar;
and
he
said,
Smite
the chapiter
that
the
thresholds
may
shake;
and
break
all
of
them
in pieces,
in
the
head;
and
I
will
slay
the
last
of
them
with
the
sword:
he
that fleeth
of
them
shall
not
get
away
by
flight,
and
he
that escapeth
of
them
shall
not
be
delivered.
\VS{2}Though
they
dig
into
Sheol, thence
shall
my
hand
take
them;
and
though
they
climb
up
to
the
heavens, thence
will
I
bring
them
down;
\VS{3}and
though
they
hide
themselves
on
the
top
of
Carmel,
I
will
search
and
take
them
out thence;
and
though
they
be
hid
from
my
sight
in
the bottom
of
the
sea,
there
will
I
command
the
serpent,
and
it
shall bite
them;
\VS{4}and
though
they go
into
captivity
before
their
enemies,
there
will
I
command
the
sword,
and
it
shall
slay
them:
and
I
will
set mine
eyes
upon
them
for
evil,
and
not
for
good.
\VS{5}And
the
Lord Jehovah
of
hosts
is
he
that toucheth
the
land,
and
it melteth,
and
all
that
dwell therein
shall
mourn;
and
it
shall
wholly
rise
up
like
the
Nile,
and
sink
down
as
the
river
of
Egypt.
\VS{6}It
is
he
that buildeth
his upper chambers
in
the
heavens,
and hath
founded
his vault
upon
the
earth;
he
that calleth
for
the
waters
of
the
sea,
and poureth
them
out
upon
the
face
of
the
earth:
Jehovah
is
his
name.
\VS{7}Are ye
not
as
children
of
the
Ethiopians unto
me,
O
children
of
Israel? saith
Jehovah.
Have
not
I
brought
up
Israel
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt?
and
the
Philistines
from
Caphtor,
and
the Syrians
from
Kir?
\VS{8}Behold,
the
eyes
of
the
Lord
Jehovah
are
upon
the
sinful
kingdom,
and
I
will
destroy
it
from
off
the
face
of
the
earth:
only
that
I
will
not
utterly
destroy
the
house
of
Jacob, saith
Jehovah.
\VS{9}For
behold,
I
command,
and
I
will
shake
the
house
of
Israel
to
and
fro
among
all
the
nations,
like
as
one shaketh [corn]
in
a
sieve;
yet
shall
not
the least
grain
fall
upon
the
earth.
\VS{10}All
the
sinners
of
my
people
shall
die
by
the
sword,
who
say,
Evil
shall
not
overtake
nor befall
us.
\VS{11}In
that
day
will
I
raise
up
the tabernacle
of
David
which
is
fallen,
and close
up
the
breaches thereof;
and
I
will
raise
up
its ruins,
and
I
will
build
it
as
in
the
days
of
old:
\VS{12}that
they
may
possess
the
remnant
of
Edom,
and
all
the
nations
upon
whom
my
name
is
called, saith
Jehovah
who doeth
this.
\VS{13}Behold,
the
days
come, saith
Jehovah,
when
the ploughman
shall
overtake
the reaper,
and
the
treader
of
grapes
him
that soweth
seed;
and
the
mountains
shall drop new
wine,
and
all
the
hills
shall
melt.
\VS{14}And
I
will
turn
again
the
captivity
of
my
people
Israel,
and
they
shall
build
the
waste
cities,
and
inhabit
them;
and
they
shall
plant
vineyards,
and
drink
the
wine thereof;
and
they
shall
make
gardens,
and
eat
the
fruit
of
them.
\VS{15}And
I
will
plant
them
upon
their
land,
and
they
shall
no
more
be
plucked
up
out
of
their
land
which
I
have
given
them, saith
Jehovah thy
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}God.
\par }