Discovery Box| (1.00) | Amo 5:8 |
| (But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion; he can turn the darkness into morning and daylight 1 into night. He summons the water of the seas and pours it out on the earth’s surface. The Lord is his name! |
| (1.00) | Amo 5:10 |
| The Israelites 1 hate anyone who arbitrates at the city gate; 2 they despise anyone who speaks honestly. |
| (1.00) | Amo 5:15 |
| Hate what is wrong, love what is right! Promote 1 justice at the city gate! 2 Maybe the Lord, the God who commands armies, will have mercy on 3 those who are left from 4 Joseph. 5 |
| (1.00) | Amo 5:16 |
| Because of Israel’s sins 1 this is what the Lord, the God who commands armies, the sovereign One, 2 says: “In all the squares there will be wailing, in all the streets they will mourn the dead. 3 They will tell the field workers 4 to lament and the professional mourners 5 to wail. |
| (1.00) | Amo 5:18 |
| Woe 1 to those who wish for the day of the Lord! Why do you want the Lord’s day of judgment to come? It will bring darkness, not light. |
| (1.00) | Amo 5:19 |
| Disaster will be inescapable, 1 as if a man ran from a lion only to meet a bear, then escaped 2 into a house, leaned his hand against the wall, and was bitten by a poisonous snake. |
| (1.00) | Amo 5:25 |
| You did not bring me 1 sacrifices and grain offerings during the forty years you spent in the wilderness, family 2 of Israel. |
| (1.00) | Amo 6:8 |
| The sovereign Lord confirms this oath by his very own life. 1 The Lord, the God who commands armies, is speaking: “I despise Jacob’s arrogance; I hate their 2 fortresses. I will hand over to their enemies 3 the city of Samaria 4 and everything in it.” |
| (1.00) | Amo 6:12 |
| Can horses run on rocky cliffs? Can one plow the sea with oxen? 1 Yet you have turned justice into a poisonous plant, and the fruit of righteous actions into a bitter plant. 2 |
| (1.00) | Amo 7:1 |
| The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw 1 him making locusts just as the crops planted late 2 were beginning to sprout. (The crops planted late sprout after the royal harvest. 3 ) |
| (1.00) | Amo 7:9 |
| Isaac’s centers of worship 1 will become desolate; Israel’s holy places will be in ruins. I will attack Jeroboam’s dynasty with the sword.” 2 |
| (1.00) | Amo 7:10 |
| Amaziah the priest of Bethel 1 sent this message 2 to King Jeroboam of Israel: “Amos is conspiring against you in the very heart of the kingdom of Israel! 3 The land cannot endure all his prophecies. 4 |
| (1.00) | Amo 7:12 |
| Amaziah then said to Amos, “Leave, you visionary! 1 Run away to the land of Judah! Earn your living 2 and prophesy there! |
| (1.00) | Amo 7:16 |
| So now listen to the Lord’s message! You say, ‘Don’t prophesy against Israel! Don’t preach 1 against the family of Isaac!’ |
| (1.00) | Amo 8:3 |
| The women singing in the temple 1 will wail in that day.” The sovereign Lord is speaking. “There will be many corpses littered everywhere! 2 Be quiet!” |
| (1.00) | Amo 8:5 |
| You say, “When will the new moon festival 1 be over, 2 so we can sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, 3 so we can open up the grain bins? 4 We’re eager 5 to sell less for a higher price, 6 and to cheat the buyer with rigged scales! 7 |
| (1.00) | Amo 8:7 |
| The Lord confirms this oath 1 by the arrogance of Jacob: 2 “I swear 3 I will never forget all you have done! 4 |
| (1.00) | Amo 8:8 |
| Because of this the earth 1 will quake, 2 and all who live in it will mourn. The whole earth 3 will rise like the River Nile, 4 it will surge upward 5 and then grow calm, 6 like the Nile in Egypt. 7 |
| (1.00) | Amo 8:9 |
| In that day,” says the sovereign Lord, “I will make the sun set at noon, and make the earth dark in the middle of the day. 1 |
| (1.00) | Amo 8:10 |
| I will turn your festivals into funerals, 1 and all your songs into funeral dirges. I will make everyone wear funeral clothes 2 and cause every head to be shaved bald. 3 I will make you mourn as if you had lost your only son; 4 when it ends it will indeed have been a bitter day. 5 |
