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Amos - Revised Standard Version |
The Latter PROPHETS |
| Proclaim to the strongholds in Assyria,
and to the strongholds in the land of Egypt,
and say, "Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Sama'ria,
and see the great tumults within her,
and the oppressions in her midst."
| The doom of Samaria. Am.3.9-4.3
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| "They do not know how to do right," says the LORD,
"those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds."
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| Therefore thus says the Lord GOD:
"An adversary shall surround the land,
and bring down your defenses from you,
and your strongholds shall be plundered." |
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| Thus says the LORD: "As the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the people of Israel who dwell in Sama'ria be rescued, with the corner of a couch and part of a bed." |
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| "Hear, and testify against the house of Jacob,"
says the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
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| "that on the day I punish Israel for his transgressions,
I will punish the altars of Bethel,
and the horns of the altar shall be cut off
and fall to the ground.
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| I will smite the winter house with the summer house;
and the houses of ivory shall perish,
and the great houses shall come to an end,"
says the LORD. |
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| "Hear this word, you cows of Bashan,
who are in the mountain of Sama'ria,
who oppress the poor, who crush the needy,
who say to their husbands, 'Bring, that we may drink!'
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| The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness
that, behold, the days are coming upon you,
when they shall take you away with hooks,
even the last of you with fishhooks.
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| And you shall go out through the breaches,
every one straight before her;
and you shall be cast forth into Harmon,"
says the LORD.
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