Discovery Box| (1.00) | Amo 4:1 |
| Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan 1 who live on Mount Samaria! You 2 oppress the poor; you crush the needy. You say to your 3 husbands, “Bring us more to drink!” 4 |
| (1.00) | Amo 4:4 |
| “Go to Bethel 1 and rebel! 2 At Gilgal 3 rebel some more! Bring your sacrifices in 4 the morning, your tithes on 5 the third day! |
| (1.00) | Amo 4:9 |
| “I destroyed your crops 1 with blight and disease. Locusts kept 2 devouring your orchards, 3 vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees. Still you did not come back to me.” The Lord is speaking! |
| (1.00) | Amo 5:1 |
| Listen to this funeral song I am ready to sing about you, 1 family 2 of Israel: |
| (1.00) | Amo 5:3 |
| The sovereign Lord says this: “The city that marches out with a thousand soldiers 1 will have only a hundred left; the town 2 that marches out with a hundred soldiers 3 will have only ten left for the family of Israel.” 4 |
| (1.00) | Amo 5:4 |
| The Lord says this to the family 1 of Israel: “Seek me 2 so you can live! |
| (1.00) | Amo 5:5 |
| Do not seek Bethel! 1 Do not visit Gilgal! Do not journey down 2 to Beer Sheba! For the people of Gilgal 3 will certainly be carried into exile; 4 and Bethel will become a place where disaster abounds.” 5 |
| (1.00) | Amo 5:7 |
| The Israelites 1 turn justice into bitterness; 2 they throw what is fair and right 3 to the ground. 4 |
| (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 |
