Lexicon :: Strong's G4771 - sy

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.

Look, I am about to crush[fn] you in your place

as a wagon crushes when full of grain.

I have known only you

out of all the clans of the earth;

therefore, I will punish you for all your iniquities.

Therefore, the Lord GOD says:

An enemy will surround the land;

he will destroy your strongholds

and plunder your citadels.

Come to Bethel and rebel;

rebel even more at Gilgal!

Bring your sacrifices every morning,

your tenths every three days.

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.

I also withheld the rain from you

while there were still three months until harvest.

I sent rain on one city

but no rain on another.

One field received rain

while a field with no rain withered.

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.

Therefore, Israel, that is what I will do to you,

and since I will do that to you,

Israel, prepare to meet your God!

For I know your crimes are many

and your sins innumerable.

They oppress the righteous, take a bribe,

and deprive the poor of justice at the city gates.

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.

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.

I hate, I despise, your feasts!

I can’t stand the stench

of your solemn assemblies.

Even if you offer me

your burnt offerings and grain offerings,

I will not accept them;

I will have no regard

for your fellowship offerings of fattened cattle.

Take away from me the noise of your songs!

I will not listen to the music of your harps.

“But you have taken up[fn] Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god,[fn] images you have made for yourselves.

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

Do horses gallop on the cliffs?

Does anyone plow there with oxen?[fn]

Yet you have turned justice into poison

and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood —

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]

Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to King Jeroboam of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you right here in the house of Israel. The land cannot endure all his words,

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.

I will turn your feasts into mourning

and all your songs into lamentation;

I will cause everyone[fn] to wear sackcloth

and every head to be shaved.

I will make that grief

like mourning for an only son

and its outcome like a bitter day.

Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria

and say, “As your god lives, Dan,”

or, “As the way[fn][fn] of Beer-sheba lives” —

they will fall, never to rise again.