Amos 6

1 Woe to the complacent in Zion, to the overconfident on the mount of Samaria, Leaders of a nation favored from the first, to whom the people of Israel have recourse!
2 Pass over to Calneh and see, go from there to Hamath the great, and down to Gath of the Philistines! Are you better than these kingdoms, or is your territory wider than theirs?
3 You would put off the evil day, yet you hasten the reign of violence!
4 Lying upon beds of ivory, stretched comfortably on their couches, They eat lambs taken from the flock, and calves from the stall!
5 Improvising to the music of the harp, like David, they devise their own accompaniment.
6 They drink wine from bowls and anoint themselves with the best oils; yet they are not made ill by the collapse of Joseph!
7 Therefore, now they shall be the first to go into exile, and their wanton revelry shall be done away with.
8 The Lord GOD has sworn by his very self, say I, the LORD, the God of hosts: I abhor the pride of Jacob, I hate his castles, and I give over the city with everything in it;
9 Should there remain ten men in a single house, these shall die.
10 Only a few shall be left to carry the dead out of the houses; If one says to a man inside a house, Is anyone with you? and he answers, No one, Then he shall say, Silence! for no one must mention the name of the LORD.
11 Indeed, the LORD has given the command to shatter the great house to bits, and reduce the small house to rubble.
12 Can horses run across a cliff? or can one plow the sea with oxen? Yet you have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of justice into wormwood.
13 You rejoice in Lodebar, and say, Have we not, by our own strength, seized for ourselves Karnaim?
14 Beware, I am raising up against you, O house of Israel, say I, the LORD, the God of hosts, A nation that shall oppress you from Labo of Hamath even to the Wadi Arabah.

Amos 7

1 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was forming a locust swarm when the late growth began to come up (the late growth after the king's mowing).
2 While they were eating all the grass in the land, I said: Forgive, O Lord GOD! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!
3 And the LORD repented of this. It shall not be, said the Lord GOD.
4 Then the Lord GOD showed me this: he called for a judgment by fire. It had devoured the great abyss, and was consuming the land,
5 when I said: Cease, O Lord GOD! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!
6 The LORD repented of this. This also shall not be, said the Lord GOD.
7 Then the Lord GOD showed me this: he was standing by a wall, plummet in hand.
8 The LORD asked me, What do you see, Amos? And when I answered, A plummet, the Lord said: See, I will lay the plummet in the midst of my people Israel; I will forgive them no longer.
9 The high places of Isaac shall be laid waste, and the sanctuaries of Israel made desolate; I will attack the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
10 Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent word to Jeroboam, king of Israel: Amos has conspired against you here within Israel; the country cannot endure all his words.
11 For this is what Amos says: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be exiled from its land.
12 To Amos, Amaziah said: Off with you, visionary, flee to the land of Judah! There earn your bread by prophesying,
13 but never again prophesy in Bethel; for it is the king's sanctuary and a royal temple.
14 Amos answered Amaziah, I was no prophet, nor have I belonged to a company of prophets; I was a shepherd and a dresser of sycamores.
15 The LORD took me from following the flock, and said to me, Go, prophesy to my people Israel.
16 Now hear the word of the LORD! You say: prophesy not against Israel, preach not against the house of Isaac.
17 Now thus says the LORD: Your wife shall be made a harlot in the city, and your sons and daughters shall fall by the sword; Your land shall be divided by measuring line, and you yourself shall die in an unclean land; Israel shall be exiled far from its land.

Amos 8

1 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: a basket of ripe fruit.
2 What do you see, Amos? he asked. I answered, A basket of ripe fruit. Then the LORD said to me: The time is ripe to have done with my people Israel; I will forgive them no longer.
3 The temple songs shall become wailings on that day, says the Lord GOD. Many shall be the corpses, strewn everywhere.--Silence!
4 Hear this, you who trample upon the needy and destroy the poor of the land!
5 When will the new moon be over, you ask, that we may sell our grain, and the sabbath, that we may display the wheat? We will diminish the ephah, add to the shekel, and fix our scales for cheating!
6 We will buy the lowly man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of sandals; even the refuse of the wheat we will sell!
7 The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob: Never will I forget a thing they have done!
8 Shall not the land tremble because of this, and all who dwell in it mourn, While it rises up and tosses like the Nile, and settles back like the river of Egypt?
9 On that day, says the Lord GOD, I will make the sun set at midday and cover the earth with darkness in broad daylight.
10 I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentations. I will cover the loins of all with sackcloth and make every head bald. I will make them mourn as for an only son, and bring their day to a bitter end.
11 Yes, days are coming, says the Lord GOD, when I will send famine upon the land: Not a famine of bread, or thirst for water, but for hearing the word of the LORD.
12 Then shall they wander from sea to sea and rove from the north to the east In search of the word of the LORD, but they shall not find it.
13 On that day, fair virgins and young men shall faint from thirst;
14 Those who swear by the shameful idol of Samaria, By the life of your god, O Dan! By the life of your love, O Beersheba! those shall fall, never to rise again.

Amos 9

1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said: Strike the bases, so that the doorjambs totter till you break them off on the heads of them all! Those who are left I will slay with the sword; not one shall flee, no survivor shall escape.
2 Though they break through to the nether world, even from there my hand shall bring them out; Though they climb to the heavens, I will bring them down;
3 Though they hide on the summit of Carmel, there too I will hunt them out and take them away; Though they hide from my gaze in the bottom of the sea, I will command the serpent there to bite them;
4 Though they are led into captivity by their enemies, there will I command the sword to slay them. I will fix my gaze upon them for evil, and not for good,
5 I, the Lord GOD of hosts. I melt the earth with my touch, so that all who dwell on it mourn, While it all rises up like the Nile, and settles back like the river of Egypt;
6 I have built heaven, my upper chamber, and established my vault over the earth; I summon the waters of the sea and pour them upon the surface of the earth, I, the LORD by name.
7 Are you not like the Ethiopians to me, O men of Israel, says the LORD? Did I not bring the Israelites from the land of Egypt As I brought the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir?
8 The eyes of the Lord GOD are on this sinful kingdom; I will destroy it from off the face of the earth. But I will not destroy the house of Jacob completely, says the LORD.
9 For see, I have given the command to sift the house of Israel among all the nations, As one sifts with a sieve, letting no pebble fall to the ground.
10 By the sword shall all sinners among my people die, those who say, Evil will not reach or overtake us.
11 On that day I will raise up the fallen hut of David; I will wall up its breaches, raise up its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old,
12 That they may conquer what is left of Edom and all the nations that shall bear my name, say I, the LORD, who will do this.
13 Yes, days are coming, says the LORD, When the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the vintager, him who sows the seed; The juice of grapes shall drip down the mountains, and all the hills shall run with it.
14 I will bring about the restoration of my people Israel; they shall rebuild and inhabit their ruined cities, Plant vineyards and drink the wine, set out gardens and eat the fruits.
15 I will plant them upon their own ground; never again shall they be plucked From the land I have given them, say I, the LORD, your God.

Obadiah 1

1 The vision of Obadiah. (Thus says the Lord GOD:) Of Edom we have heard a message from the LORD, and a herald has been sent among the nations: Up! let us go to war against him!
2 See, I make you small among the nations; you are held in dire contempt.
3 The pride of your heart has deceived you: you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose abode is in the heights, Who say in your heart, Who will bring me down to earth?
4 Though you go as high as the eagle, and your nest be set among the stars, From there will I bring you down, says the LORD.
5 If thieves came to you, if robbers by night, how could you be thus destroyed: would they not steal merely till they had enough? If vintagers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?
6 How they search Esau, seek out his hiding places!
7 To the border they drive you--all your allies; They deceive you, they overpower you--those at peace with you; Those who eat your bread lay snares beneath you: There is no understanding in him!
8 Shall I not, says the LORD, on that day make the wise men disappear from Edom, and understanding from the mount of Esau?
9 Your warriors, O Teman, shall be crushed, till all on Mount Esau are destroyed.
10 Because of violence to your brother Jacob, disgrace shall cover you and you shall be destroyed forever.
11 On the day when you stood by, on the day when aliens carried off his possessions, And strangers entered his gates and cast lots over Jerusalem, you too were one of them.
12 Gaze not upon the day of your brother, the day of his disaster; Exult not over the children of Judah on the day of their ruin; Speak not haughtily on the day of distress!
13 Enter not the gate of my people on the day of their calamity; Gaze not, you at least, upon his misfortune on the day of his calamity; Lay not hands upon his possessions on the day of his calamity!
14 Stand not at the crossroads to slay his refugees; Betray not his fugitives on the day of distress!
15 For near is the day of the LORD for all the nations! As you have done, so shall it be done to you, your deed shall come back upon your own head;
16 As you have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually. Yes, they shall drink and swallow, and shall become as though they had not been.
17 But on Mount Zion there shall be a portion saved; the mountain shall be holy, And the house of Jacob shall take possession of those that dispossessed them.
18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame; The house of Esau shall be stubble, and they shall set them ablaze and devour them; Then none shall survive of the house of Esau, for the LORD has spoken.
19 They shall occupy the Negeb, the mount of Esau, and the foothills of the Philistines; And they shall occupy the lands of Ephraim and the lands of Samaria, and Benjamin shall occupy Gilead.
20 The captives of the host of the children of Israel shall occupy the Canaanite land as far as Zarephath, And the captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall occupy the cities of the Negeb.
21 And saviors shall ascend Mount Zion to rule the mount of Esau, and the kingship shall be the LORD'S.