Lexicon :: Strong's H3068 - Yᵊhōvâ

The LORD says:

I will not relent from punishing Damascus

for three crimes, even four,

because they threshed Gilead with iron sledges.

I will break down the gates[fn] of Damascus.

I will cut off the ruler from the Valley of Aven,

and the one who wields the scepter from Beth-eden.

The people of Aram will be exiled to Kir.

The LORD has spoken.

The LORD says:

I will not relent from punishing Gaza

for three crimes, even four,

because they exiled a whole community,

handing them over to Edom.

The LORD says:

I will not relent from punishing Tyre

for three crimes, even four,

because they handed over

a whole community of exiles to Edom

and broke[fn] a treaty of brotherhood.

The LORD says:

I will not relent from punishing Edom

for three crimes, even four,

because he pursued his brother with the sword.

He stifled his compassion,

his anger tore at him continually,

and he harbored his rage incessantly.

The LORD says:

I will not relent from punishing the Ammonites

for three crimes, even four,

because they ripped open

the pregnant women of Gilead

in order to enlarge their territory.

Their king and his princes

will go into exile together.

The LORD has spoken.

I will cut off the judge from the land

and kill all its officials with him.

The LORD has spoken.

The LORD says:

I will not relent from punishing Judah

for three crimes, even four,

because they have rejected the instruction of the LORD

and have not kept his statutes.

The lies that their ancestors followed

have led them astray.

The LORD says:

I will not relent from punishing Israel

for three crimes, even four,

because they sell a righteous person for silver

and a needy person for a pair of sandals.

I raised up some of your sons as prophets

and some of your young men as Nazirites.

Is this not the case, Israelites?

This is the LORD’s declaration.

Even the most courageous of the warriors

will flee naked on that day —

this is the LORD’s declaration.

If a ram’s horn is blown in a city,

aren’t people afraid?

If a disaster occurs in a city,

hasn’t the LORD done it?

The people are incapable of doing right —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

those who store up violence and destruction

in their citadels.

The LORD says:

As the shepherd snatches two legs

or a piece of an ear

from the lion’s mouth,

so the Israelites who live in Samaria

will be rescued

with only the corner of a bed

or the[fn] cushion[fn] of a couch.[fn]

I will demolish the winter house

and the summer house;

the houses inlaid with ivory will be destroyed,

and the great houses will come to an end.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

I gave you absolutely nothing to eat[fn] in all your cities,

a shortage of food in all your communities,

yet you did not return to me.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

Two or three cities staggered

to another city to drink water

but were not satisfied,

yet you did not return to me.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

I struck you with blight and mildew;

the locust devoured

your many gardens and vineyards,

your fig trees and olive trees,

yet you did not return to me.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

I sent plagues like those of Egypt;

I killed your young men with the sword,

along with your captured horses.

I caused the stench of your camp

to fill your nostrils,

yet you did not return to me.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

I overthrew some of you

as I[fn] overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,

and you were like a burning stick

snatched from a fire,

yet you did not return to me —

This is the LORD’s declaration.

He is here:

the one who forms the mountains,

creates the wind,

and reveals his thoughts to man,

the one who makes the dawn out of darkness

and strides on the heights of the earth.

The LORD, the God of Armies, is his name.

Seek the LORD and live,

or he will spread like fire

throughout the house of Joseph;

it will consume everything

with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.

The one who made the Pleiades and Orion,

who turns darkness[fn] into dawn

and darkens day into night,

who summons the water of the sea

and pours it out over the surface of the earth —

the LORD is his name.

Pursue good and not evil

so that you may live,

and the LORD, the God of Armies,

will be with you

as you have claimed.

Hate evil and love good;

establish justice at the city gate.

Perhaps the LORD, the God of Armies, will be gracious

to the remnant of Joseph.

Therefore the LORD, the God of Armies, the Lord, says:

There will be wailing in all the public squares;

they will cry out in anguish[fn] in all the streets.

The farmer will be called on to mourn,

and professional mourners[fn] to wail.

There will be wailing in all the vineyards,

for I will pass among you.

The LORD has spoken.

Woe to you who long for the day of the LORD!

What will the day of the LORD be for you?

It will be darkness and not light.

Won’t the day of the LORD

be darkness rather than light,

even gloom without any brightness in it?

“So I will send you into exile beyond Damascus.” The LORD, the God of Armies, is his name. He has spoken.

A close relative[fn] and burner[fn] will remove his corpse[fn] from the house. He will call to someone in the inner recesses of the house, “Any more with you? ”

That person will reply, “None.”

Then he will say, “Silence, because the LORD’s name must not be invoked.”

For the LORD commands:

The large house will be smashed to pieces,

and the small house to rubble.

But look, I am raising up a nation

against you, house of Israel —

this is the declaration of the Lord,

the GOD of Armies —

and they will oppress you

from the entrance of Hamath[fn]

to the Brook of the Arabah.[fn]

The LORD relented concerning this. “This will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.

The LORD asked me, “What do you see, Amos? ”

I replied, “A plumb line.”

Then the Lord said, “I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will no longer spare them:

“But the LORD took me from following the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’ ”

Now hear the word of the LORD. You say:

Do not prophesy against Israel;

do not preach against the house of Isaac.

Therefore, this is what the LORD says:

Your wife will be a prostitute in the city,

your sons and daughters will fall by the sword,

and your land will be divided up

with a measuring line.

You yourself will die on pagan[fn] soil,

and Israel will certainly go into exile

from its homeland.

The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob:[fn]

I will never forget all their deeds.

Look, the days are coming —

this is the declaration of the Lord GOD —

when I will send a famine through the land:

not a famine of bread or a thirst for water,

but of hearing the words of the LORD.

People will stagger from sea to sea

and roam from north to east

seeking the word of the LORD,

but they will not find it.