Category: Amos

Amos 7:1-3 is about God’s relentlessness in judgment and mercy, showing how He uses various means to communicate with His rebellious people and offers them opportunities for repentance. 1 This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, he was forming locusts when the latter growth was just beginning to sprout, and behold, it was…

11 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God, “when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.” Setting the Scene for Amos 8:11 The scene in Amos chapter 8 is set in the kingdom of…

3 “Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?” Setting the Scene for Amos 3:3 In Amos chapter 3, the prophet Amos delivers a message from God to the people of Israel. The scene is set in the bustling marketplace of the city of Samaria, the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel.…

13 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it.” Setting the Scene for Amos 9:13 In Amos chapter 9, the scene is set in…

1 Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel: 2 “Fallen, no more to rise, is the virgin Israel; forsaken on her land, with none to raise her up.” 3 For thus says the Lord God: “The city that went out a thousand shall have a hundred left,…

1 The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. 2 And he said: “The Lord roars from Zion and utters his…

1 Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt: 2 “You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. 3 “Do two walk…

1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said: “Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake, and shatter them on the heads of all the people; and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword; not one of them shall flee away; not one of them shall escape.”…

7 “For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets. Setting the Scene for Amos 3:7 In the scene referred to in Amos 3:7, the prophet Amos is standing in the bustling marketplace of the ancient city of Samaria. The sun beats down on the dusty streets as merchants…

13 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it.” 14 I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the…