Woe to those who are at ease in Zion,and to those who feel secure on the mountain of Samaria,the notable men of the first of the nations,to whom the house of Israel comes!Pass over to Calneh, and see,and from there go to Hamath the great;then go down to Gath of the Philistines.Are you better thanContinue reading “Amos 6: 1-7…..You think that you have it all!”
Category Archives: Amos
AMOS 5: 25-27….Why is this here?
Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? You shall take up Sikkuth your king, and Kiyyun your star-god—your images that you made for yourselves, and I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.Continue reading “AMOS 5: 25-27….Why is this here?”
Amos 5: 16-24…..Deliver us, O Lord!
Therefore the LORD God of hosts, the Lord, says this:“There shall be wailing in all streets,And they shall say in all the highways,‘Alas! Alas!’They shall call the farmer to mourning,And skillful lamenters to wailing.In all vineyards there shall be wailing,For I will pass through you,”Says the LORD.Woe to you who desire the day of theContinue reading “Amos 5: 16-24…..Deliver us, O Lord!”
Amos 5: 10-15….Please speak nicely, gently – God is so Good!
They hate the one who rebukes in the gate,And they abhor the one who speaks uprightly.Therefore, because you tread down the poorAnd take grain taxes from him,Though you have built houses of hewn stone,Yet you shall not dwell in them;You have planted pleasant vineyards,But you shall not drink wine from them.For I know your manifoldContinue reading “Amos 5: 10-15….Please speak nicely, gently – God is so Good!”
Amos 5: 4-9……Don’t try evasive techniques!
For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel:“Seek Me and live;But do not seek Bethel,Nor enter Gilgal,Nor pass over to Beersheba;For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,And Bethel shall come to nothing.Seek the LORD and live,Lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph,And devour it,With no one to quench itContinue reading “Amos 5: 4-9……Don’t try evasive techniques!”
Amos 4:13-ch5:3…..Open your eyes – and see!
For behold,He who forms mountains,And creates the wind,Who declares to man what his thought is,And makes the morning darkness,Who treads the high places of the earth—The LORD God of hosts is His name. Comment: Yesterday you were warned to Prepare to meet God. Think hard about what He can do!Hear this word which I takeContinue reading “Amos 4:13-ch5:3…..Open your eyes – and see!”
Amos 4: 6-12…..Prepare to meet your God!
I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,and lack of bread in all your places,yet you did not return to me,”declares the LORD.“I also withheld the rain from youwhen there were yet three months to the harvest;I would send rain on one city,and send no rain on another city;one field would have rain,andContinue reading “Amos 4: 6-12…..Prepare to meet your God!”
Amos 4: 1-5…..High-lighted in the ‘for three and four’.
“Hear this word, you cows of Bashan,who are on the mountain of Samaria,who oppress the poor, who crush the needy,who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’The Lord GOD has sworn by his holinessthat, behold, the days are coming upon you,when they shall take you away with hooks,even the last of you withContinue reading “Amos 4: 1-5…..High-lighted in the ‘for three and four’.”
Amos 3: 9-15…..The leftover meal.
Proclaim to the strongholds in Ashdodand to the strongholds in the land of Egypt,and say, “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria,and see the great tumults within her,and the oppressed in her midst.”“They do not know how to do right,” declares the LORD,“those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.”Therefore thus says theContinue reading “Amos 3: 9-15…..The leftover meal.”
Amos 3: 1-8….The secrets of hunting
Comment: The times are very different from Amos’ day to now, I have put in the text how things might be announced this age! Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:*** I know thatContinue reading “Amos 3: 1-8….The secrets of hunting”
As I read it! 