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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.4.1"><span class="content">you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.4.1"><span class="content">and say to your husbands, &#8220;Bring us some drinks!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has sworn by his holiness:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.4.2"><span class="content">&#8220;The time will surely come</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.4.2"><span class="content">when you will be taken away with hooks,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.4.2"><span class="content">the last of you with fishhooks.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">away in baskets, / the last of you in fish baskets</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You will each go straight out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.4.3"><span class="content">through breaches in the wall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.4.3"><span class="content">and you will be cast out toward Harmon,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:3 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; with a different word division of the Hebrew (see Septuagint) </span><span class="fqa">out, you mountain of oppression</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.4.3"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go to Bethel and sin;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.4.4"><span class="content">go to Gilgal and sin yet more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.4.4"><span class="content">Bring your sacrifices every morning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.4.4"><span class="content">your tithes every three years.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">days</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Burn leavened bread as a thank offering</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.4.5"><span class="content">and brag about your freewill offerings&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.4.5"><span class="content">boast about them, you Israelites,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.4.5"><span class="content">for this is what you love to do,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.4.5"><span class="content">declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;I gave you empty stomachs in every city</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.4.6"><span class="content">and lack of bread in every town,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.4.6"><span class="content">yet you have not returned to me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.4.6"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;I also withheld rain from you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.4.7"><span class="content">when the harvest was still three months away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.4.7"><span class="content">I sent rain on one town,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.4.7"><span class="content">but withheld it from another.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.4.7"><span class="content">One field had rain;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.4.7"><span class="content">another had none and dried up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">People staggered from town to town for water</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.4.8"><span class="content">but did not get enough to drink,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.4.8"><span class="content">yet you have not returned to me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.4.8"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.4.9"><span class="content">destroying them with blight and mildew.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.4.9"><span class="content">Locusts devoured your fig and olive trees,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.4.9"><span class="content">yet you have not returned to me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.4.9"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;I sent plagues among you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="content">as I did to Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="content">I killed your young men with the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="content">along with your captured horses.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="content">I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camps,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="content">yet you have not returned to me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;I overthrew some of you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.4.11"><span class="content">as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.4.11"><span class="content">You were like a burning stick snatched from the fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.4.11"><span class="content">yet you have not returned to me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.4.11"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.4.12"><span class="content">and because I will do this to you, Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.4.12"><span class="content">prepare to meet your God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He who forms the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.4.13"><span class="content">who creates the wind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.4.13"><span class="content">and who reveals his thoughts to mankind,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.4.13"><span class="content">who turns dawn to darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.4.13"><span class="content">and treads on the heights of the earth&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.4.13"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty is his name.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear this word, Israel, this lament I take up concerning you:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.5.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Fallen is Virgin Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.5.2"><span class="content">never to rise again,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.5.2"><span class="content">deserted in her own land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.5.2"><span class="content">with no one to lift her up.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.5.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.5.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Your city that marches out a thousand strong</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.5.3"><span class="content">will have only a hundred left;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.5.3"><span class="content">your town that marches out a hundred strong</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.5.3"><span class="content">will have only ten left.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.5.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.5.4"><span class="content">&#8220;Seek me and live;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.5.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">do not seek Bethel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.5.5"><span class="content">do not go to Gilgal,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.5.5"><span class="content">do not journey to Beersheba.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.5.5"><span class="content">For Gilgal will surely go into exile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.5.5"><span class="content">and Bethel will be reduced to nothing.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:5 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">aven, </span><span class="ft">a reference to Beth Aven (a derogatory name for Bethel); see Hosea 4:15.</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Seek the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and live,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.5.6"><span class="content">or he will sweep through the tribes of Joseph like a fire;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.5.6"><span class="content">it will devour them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.5.6"><span class="content">and Bethel will have no one to quench it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">There are those who turn justice into bitterness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.5.7"><span class="content">and cast righteousness to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.5.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He who made the Pleiades and Orion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.5.8"><span class="content">who turns midnight into dawn</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.5.8"><span class="content">and darkens day into night,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.5.8"><span class="content">who calls for the waters of the sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.5.8"><span class="content">and pours them out over the face of the land&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.5.8"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is his name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">With a blinding flash he destroys the stronghold</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.5.9"><span class="content">and brings the fortified city to ruin.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.5.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.5.10"><span class="content">and detest the one who tells the truth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.5.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You levy a straw tax on the poor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.5.11"><span class="content">and impose a tax on their grain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.5.11"><span class="content">Therefore, though you have built stone mansions,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.5.11"><span class="content">you will not live in them;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.5.11"><span class="content">though you have planted lush vineyards,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.5.11"><span class="content">you will not drink their wine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For I know how many are your offenses</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.5.12"><span class="content">and how great your sins.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.5.12"><span class="content">There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.5.12"><span class="content">and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.5.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Therefore the prudent keep quiet in such times,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.5.13"><span class="content">for the times are evil.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.5.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Seek good, not evil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.5.14"><span class="content">that you may live.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.5.14"><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty will be with you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.5.14"><span class="content">just as you say he is.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.5.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Hate evil, love good;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.5.15"><span class="content">maintain justice in the courts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.5.15"><span class="content">Perhaps the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty will have mercy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.5.15"><span class="content">on the remnant of Joseph.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.5.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty, says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.5.16"><span class="content">&#8220;There will be wailing in all the streets</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.5.16"><span class="content">and cries of anguish in every public square.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.5.16"><span class="content">The farmers will be summoned to weep</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.5.16"><span class="content">and the mourners to wail.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.5.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">There will be wailing in all the vineyards,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.5.17"><span class="content">for I will pass through your midst,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.5.17"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.5.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="AMO.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Woe to you who long</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="AMO.5.18"><span class="content">for the day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="AMO.5.18"><span class="content">Why do you long for the day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="AMO.5.18"><span class="content">That day will be darkness, not light.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="AMO.5.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="AMO.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">It will be as though a man fled from a lion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="AMO.5.19"><span class="content">only to meet a bear,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="AMO.5.19"><span class="content">as though he entered his house</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="AMO.5.19"><span class="content">and rested his hand on the wall</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="AMO.5.19"><span class="content">only to have a snake bite him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="AMO.5.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="AMO.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Will not the day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> be darkness, not light&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="AMO.5.20"><span class="content">pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="AMO.5.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="AMO.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;I hate, I despise your religious festivals;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="AMO.5.21"><span class="content">your assemblies are a stench to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="AMO.5.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="AMO.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="AMO.5.22"><span class="content">I will not accept them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="AMO.5.22"><span class="content">Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="AMO.5.22"><span class="content">I will have no regard for them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="AMO.5.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="AMO.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Away with the noise of your songs!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="AMO.5.23"><span class="content">I will not listen to the music of your harps.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="AMO.5.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="AMO.5.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">But let justice roll on like a river,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="AMO.5.24"><span class="content">righteousness like a never-failing stream!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="AMO.5.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="AMO.5.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="AMO.5.25"><span class="content">forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="AMO.5.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="AMO.5.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">You have lifted up the shrine of your king,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="AMO.5.26"><span class="content">the pedestal of your idols,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="AMO.5.26"><span class="content">the star of your god</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">lifted up Sakkuth your king / and Kaiwan your idols, / your star-gods</span><span class="ft">; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">lifted up the shrine of Molek / and the star of your god Rephan, / their idols</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="AMO.5.26"><span class="content">which you made for yourselves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="AMO.5.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="AMO.5.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="AMO.5.27"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, whose name is God Almighty.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Woe to you who are complacent in Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.6.1"><span class="content">and to you who feel secure on Mount Samaria,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.6.1"><span class="content">you notable men of the foremost nation,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.6.1"><span class="content">to whom the people of Israel come!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.6.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Go to Kalneh and look at it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.6.2"><span class="content">go from there to great Hamath,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.6.2"><span class="content">and then go down to Gath in Philistia.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.6.2"><span class="content">Are they better off than your two kingdoms?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.6.2"><span class="content">Is their land larger than yours?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.6.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You put off the day of disaster</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.6.3"><span class="content">and bring near a reign of terror.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You lie on beds adorned with ivory</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.6.4"><span class="content">and lounge on your couches.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.6.4"><span class="content">You dine on choice lambs</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.6.4"><span class="content">and fattened calves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You strum away on your harps like David</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.6.5"><span class="content">and improvise on musical instruments.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You drink wine by the bowlful</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.6.6"><span class="content">and use the finest lotions,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.6.6"><span class="content">but you do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Therefore you will be among the first to go into exile;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.6.7"><span class="content">your feasting and lounging will end.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading"> Abhors the Pride of Israel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.6.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has sworn by himself&#8212;the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty declares:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.6.8"><span class="content">&#8220;I abhor the pride of Jacob</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.6.8"><span class="content">and detest his fortresses;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.6.8"><span class="content">I will deliver up the city</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.6.8"><span class="content">and everything in it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If ten people are left in one house, they too will die. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And if the relative who comes to carry the bodies out of the house to burn them</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">to make a funeral fire in honor of the dead</span></span></span><span class="content"> asks anyone who might be hiding there, &#8220;Is anyone else with you?&#8221; and he says, &#8220;No,&#8221; then he will go on to say, &#8220;Hush! We must not mention the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given the command,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.6.11"><span class="content">and he will smash the great house into pieces</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.6.11"><span class="content">and the small house into bits.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Do horses run on the rocky crags?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.6.12"><span class="content">Does one plow the sea</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:12 </span><span class="ft">With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">plow there</span></span></span><span class="content"> with oxen?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.6.12"><span class="content">But you have turned justice into poison</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.6.12"><span class="content">and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">you who rejoice in the conquest of Lo Debar</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:13 </span><span class="fq">Lo Debar </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">nothing.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.6.13"><span class="content">and say, &#8220;Did we not take Karnaim</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:13 </span><span class="fq">Karnaim </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">horns</span><span class="ft">; </span><span class="fqa">horn </span><span class="ft">here symbolizes strength.</span></span></span><span class="content"> by our own strength?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.6.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty declares,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.6.14"><span class="content">&#8220;I will stir up a nation against you, Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.6.14"><span class="content">that will oppress you all the way</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.6.14"><span class="content">from Lebo Hamath to the valley of the Arabah.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts after the king&#8217;s share had been harvested and just as the late crops were coming up. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When they had stripped the land clean, I cried out, &#8220;Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, forgive! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.7.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> relented.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.7.3"><span class="content">&#8220;This will not happen,&#8221; the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> showed me: The Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was calling for judgment by fire; it dried up the great deep and devoured the land. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then I cried out, &#8220;Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> relented.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.7.6"><span class="content">&#8220;This will not happen either,&#8221; the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:7 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> with a plumb line</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:7 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain; also in verse 8.</span></span></span><span class="content"> in his hand. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> asked me, &#8220;What do you see, Amos?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.7.8"><span class="content">&#8220;A plumb line,&#8221; I replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.7.8"><span class="content">Then the Lord said, &#8220;Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;The high places of Isaac will be destroyed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.7.9"><span class="content">and the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.7.9"><span class="content">with my sword I will rise against the house of Jeroboam.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Amos and Amaziah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel: &#8220;Amos is raising a conspiracy against you in the very heart of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For this is what Amos is saying:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.7.11"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Jeroboam will die by the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.7.11"><span class="content">and Israel will surely go into exile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.7.11"><span class="content">away from their native land.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then Amaziah said to Amos, &#8220;Get out, you seer! Go back to the land of Judah. Earn your bread there and do your prophesying there. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Don&#8217;t prophesy anymore at Bethel, because this is the king&#8217;s sanctuary and the temple of the kingdom.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Amos answered Amaziah, &#8220;I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I was a shepherd, and I also took care of sycamore-fig trees. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> took me from tending the flock and said to me, &#8216;Go, prophesy to my people Israel.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Now then, hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. You say,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.7.16"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not prophesy against Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.7.16"><span class="content">and stop preaching against the descendants of Isaac.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.7.17"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Your wife will become a prostitute in the city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.7.17"><span class="content">and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.7.17"><span class="content">Your land will be measured and divided up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.7.17"><span class="content">and you yourself will die in a pagan</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:17 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">an unclean</span></span></span><span class="content"> country.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.7.17"><span class="content">And Israel will surely go into exile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.7.17"><span class="content">away from their native land.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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