1 Hear this word, ye heifers of Bashan, that [are] in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink. 2 The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fish-hooks, 3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every [cow at that which is] before her; and ye shall cast [them] into the palace, saith the LORD. 4 Come to Beth-el and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, [and] your tithes after three years: 5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim [and] publish the free-offerings: for this pleaseth you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD. 6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned to me, saith the LORD. 7 And also I have withheld the rain from you, when [there were] yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece on which it rained not withered. 8 So two [or] three cities wandered to one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned to me, saith the LORD. 9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig-trees and your olive-trees increased, the palmer-worm devoured [them] : yet have ye not returned to me, saith the LORD. 10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the ill savor of your camps to come up to your nostrils: yet have ye not returned to me, saith the LORD. 11 I have overthrown [some] of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a fire-brand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned to me, saith the LORD. 12 Therefore thus will I do to thee, O Israel: [and] because I will do this to thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. 13 For lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth to man what [is] his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, [is] his name.
Amos · Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
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Cross references (13)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 22:12; Amos 6:1; Amos 5:11; Ezekiel 39:18; Ecclesiastes 4:1
- 2 Jeremiah 16:16; Psalm 89:35; Habakkuk 1:15–16; Isaiah 37:29; Amos 6:8
- 3 Ezekiel 12:5; Ezekiel 12:12; Isaiah 31:7; Matthew 16:26; 2 Kings 25:4
- 4 Ezekiel 20:39; Hosea 4:15; Numbers 28:3–4; Hosea 9:15; Amos 5:5
- 5 Psalm 81:12; Leviticus 22:18–21; Hosea 9:10; Matthew 23:23; Hosea 9:1
- 6 Haggai 2:17; Jeremiah 5:3; Isaiah 9:13; Revelation 16:10–11; Leviticus 26:26
- 7 Exodus 9:26; Jeremiah 3:3; Isaiah 5:6; 2 Chronicles 7:13–14; Exodus 9:4
- 8 Amos 4:6; 1 Kings 18:5; Haggai 1:6; Micah 6:14; Hosea 7:10
- 9 Deuteronomy 28:22; Haggai 2:17; Joel 1:4; Amos 7:1–2; Amos 4:6
- 10 Deuteronomy 28:60; Leviticus 26:25; Joel 2:20; 2 Kings 13:7; Exodus 9:3–6
- 11 Isaiah 13:19; Zechariah 3:2; Genesis 19:24–25; Jeremiah 23:14; 2 Peter 2:6
- 12 1 Thessalonians 5:2–4; James 4:1–10; Amos 9:1–4; Mark 13:32–37; Ezekiel 13:5
- 13 Amos 5:8; Micah 1:3; Amos 9:6; Isaiah 47:4; Psalm 65:6
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
… ye be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above." Amos also prophesies thus concerning such things: "Prepare thee, that thou mayst invoke thy God, O Israel; for lo, I am binding the thunder, and creating the spirit, and announcing to men their Christ." And in another place he says, "In that day will I raise up the tabernacle …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
… made; as is shewn by the passage which says that He maketh His Angels Spirits, and that the earth is founded upon its steadfastness (though once for all these things were fixed and made) and that the thunder is made firm and the wind created. Of all these things the Word was given once, but the Action is continuous even …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)