Amos - At A Glance

Theme: Amos pronounced judgment on all the surrounding nations before including Israel and Judah. Everyone is accountable to God. Although many people had abandoned real faith in God, they still pretended to be religious. They carried on nominal religious performance instead of practicing heartfelt obedience toward God.

Amos 1
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1-2_The words of Amos of Tekoa as a result of his vision concerning Israel and Judah. The visions began two years before the earthquake.

__3-5_The Word of the LORD came against Damascus because they thrashed Gilead with implements of sharp iron. I will destroy says the LORD.

__6-8_Thus says the LORD, because Gaza deported an entire population to Edom, I will destroy them.

__9-10_Thus says the LORD, because Tyre delivered up an entire population to Edom and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood, I will send fire and consume their strongholds.

__11-12_Thus says the LORD, because Edom pursued his brother with the sword and had no compassion, so I will send fire and consume the citadels of Bazrah.

__13-15_Thus says the LORD, because Ammon has ripped open pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge its borders, so I will kindle a fire on the walls of Rabbah. It's citadels will be consumed. Their king and princes will go into exile together.

Amos 2
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1-3_Thus says the LORD, I burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime and so I will send fire upon Moab. I will cut off the judge from its midst and slay her princes.

__4-5_Thus says the LORD, because Judah has rejected the Law of the LORD and has not kept His statutes, their lies have led them astray. So I will send fire upon Judah and consume the citadels of Jerusalem.

__6-8_Thus says the LORD, Israel sells the righteous for money and the needy for a pair of sandal, they turn aside the humble and a man and his father resort to the same girl so as to profane My name. They take garments as a pledge and drink wine in God's house.

__9-12_I destroyed the Amorite whose height was like a cedar. I brought you out of Egypt. I led you in the wilderness forty years. I gave you the land of the Amorite. I raised up some of your sons as prophets.

__13-16_Your sins weigh Me down as a wagon that is filled with sheaves. Your strong will is no longer strong. Your soldiers will not prevail, neither will they escape from battle. Horses cannot save you. Even the bravest will flee naked in that day, declares the LORD.

Amos 3
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1-8_Hear this word which the LORD has spoken against you, children of Israel. I chose you from among all the families of the earth. Therefore, I will punish you because of your sins.

Surely the LORD does nothing unless He reveals His secret council to His servants the prophets. The LORD has spoken.

__9-15_Make a proclamation to Ashdod, Egypt and Samaria. These do not know how to do what is right. Therefore an enemy will destroy them. For their transgression they will be punished. They will loose everything.

Amos 4
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1-5_You who oppress the poor and crush the needy while living in luxury must understand that God has determined your own painful destruction. Your sacrifices, tithes and offerings are not sufficient.

__6-13_I have provided for your physical needs but you have not turned to Me. Prepare to meet your God, O Israel.

Amos 5
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1-7_Hear this word, which I take up as a dirge for you, O house of Israel. You once were pure but now have fallen. Seek the LORD that you may live. Otherwise the LORD will consume you, who have cast righteousness down to the earth.

__8-13_He Who made Pleiades and Orion, Who causes the earth to turn and manages the sea tides can also cause destruction to fall on the strong. You who exact a heavy cost on the poor while living in luxury will loose your economic advantage.

__14-22_Seek good and not evil so that you may live. You who have longed for the day of the LORD will not be happy when it comes. I am calling you to account. I hate your religious festivals. Even though you offer Me burnt offerings, grain offerings and peace offerings, I will not even look at them.

__23-27_Take away the noise of your songs and harps. What I want from you is justice and righteousness instead of your unfaithful worship of images.

Therefore I will make you go into exile beyond Damascus, says the LORD.

Amos 6
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1-7_Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, to those who feel secure in Samaria, and to the distinguished of the greatest of nations. You recline in luxury and eat sumptuously. You sing beautiful songs while drinking wine from sacrificial bowls. You are not grieved by your own apostasy. You will be the first to go into exile.

__8-11_The LORD God has sworn by Himself that He is very unhappy with Jacob. You have turned justice into poison and righteousness into wormwood. Behold, I am going to raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel, declares the LORD of Hosts.

Amos 7
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1-3_The LORD God showed me that He was forming a swarm of locust at the time the spring crops were beginning to sprout and the king's mowing was finished. When the swarm had finished eating the vegetation I asked the LORD to pardon Jacob and He changed His mind.

__4-9_The LORD showed me that He planned to contend with them using fire. I asked Him to pardon them, so the LORD changed His mind. I saw the LORD standing by a wall with a plumb line in His hand. He asked me what I saw. I said that I saw a plumb line. The LORD said, I am about to measure my people with a plumb line. I will lay them to waste.

__10-13_Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent word to Jeroboam, king of Israel, saying, Amos has conspired against you. The land of Israel cannot endure his words. He is saying things like, Jeroboam will die by the sword and Israel will surely go into exile. Amaziah told Amos to do his prophesying in Judah.

__14-15_Amos replied, I am not a prophet or the son of a prophet. I am a herdsman and a grower of sycamore figs. The LORD took me from following the flock and told me to prophecy to my people Israel.

__16-17_Now hear the word of the LORD. You have told me to not prophecy against Israel. The LORD says that your wife will become a harlot in this city. Your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be parceled out to others and you will die upon unclean soil. Israel will certainly go into exile.

Amos 8
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1-6_The LORD told me that the end has come for Israel. Hear this, He said. You who trample the needy and do away with the humble, you long for worship time to be over so that you can carry on business. You cheat with dishonest scales and buy the helpless for money. You treat the needy as though you are selling wheat.

__7-14_The LORD has sworn that He will no longer overlook your sins. He will turn your festivals into mourning and your songs into lamentation. In the days to come He will send a famine on the land. It will not be a famine of bread and water but rather a famine of the word of the LORD. They will seek His word and not find it.

Amos 9
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1-7_The LORD said, the day is coming when My hand will take them no matter where they hide. I will bring evil and not good on them. Did I not bring you out of Egypt and take the land of Canaan from the nations that had lived there and give it to you?

__8-12_The LORD's eyes are on this sinful kingdom and He will destroy it from the face of the earth, yet, not completely. He will shake the house of Israel among the nations as grain is shaken in a sieve. All the sinners of My people will die by the sword.

__13-15_Behold the day is coming, declares the LORD, when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the one treading grapes will overtake him who sows seed. The mountains will drip sweet wine, and all the hills will be dissolved. The day will come when I restore My people Israel. They will rebuild, plant and harvest and never be uprooted again.

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