Amos

No. 1284 Amos 7:12-17
Amaziah, the priest of the royal shrine at Bethel, tries to silence Amos: go away, seer, flee to Judah and prophesy there, and eat your bread, but do not prophesy here at Bethel, for it is the king's...
No. 1458 Amos 1:1-5
Amos, a shepherd from Tekoa, receives words concerning Israel in a time of prosperity. He opens with a fearsome image: the LORD roars from Zion, and the pastures wither at his voice. And then he begins a...
No. 1470 Amos 5:1-15
Amos raises a lament over Israel as over one already fallen, and then calls out the way back: seek me, and you will live, says the LORD; do not seek the empty shrines of Bethel and Gilgal, which will come to...
No. 1672 Amos 1:6-10
Amos pronounces God's judgment on the nations around Israel, and here on the Philistine cities of Gaza and on Tyre. Their crime is named plainly: they carried away whole communities into captivity, to deliver...
No. 1676 Amos 4:1-13
Amos confronts the comfortable of Samaria, the wealthy who oppress the poor and crush the needy while calling for their drinks. He mocks their busy but empty religion at Bethel and Gilgal. Then comes a...
No. 1685 Amos 6:10-14
Amos describes a scene of such devastation that survivors dare not even speak the LORD's name, and warns that God will smash the great house and the little house alike. Then he names the heart of the offense:...
No. 2449 Amos 2:1-5
Amos pronounces God's judgment on nation after nation, and the charge against Moab is unusual. It is not for something done to Israel, but for burning the bones of the king of Edom into lime, an act of cruelty...
No. 2684 Amos 2:6-16
Amos has been announcing judgment on the surrounding nations, and his listeners in Israel would have cheered each one. Then he turns the same verdict on them. The charges are not exotic idolatry but ordinary...
No. 2842 Amos 7:6-11
God shows Amos a vision of a plumb line, the weighted string a builder drops to test whether a wall is straight. The Lord stands beside a wall holding one, and says he is setting a plumb line in the midst of...
No. 3195 Amos 7:1-5
God shows Amos two visions of coming judgment, a plague of locusts devouring the land, and a fire drying up the deep. And both times Amos does not simply watch; he intercedes: O Lord GOD, forgive, I beg you!...
No. 3310 Amos 3:1-10
Amos states a hard truth about privilege: you only have I chosen of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your sins. Then he strings together questions from ordinary life, does a...
No. 3374 Amos 3:11-15
Amos pronounces judgment on a complacent, luxurious Israel. He pictures an enemy overrunning the land, tearing down the strongholds in which they trusted, and leaving only fragments, as a shepherd rescues from...
No. 3568 Amos 5:16-27
Amos confronts a people confident in their religion but empty of justice. He shocks those who long for the day of the LORD, expecting it to vindicate them: why do you desire it? It is darkness, not light. And...
No. 3605 Amos 8:1-14
God shows Amos a basket of ripe summer fruit, a picture that the end has come, ripe for judgment. And the sin that has ripened is the exploitation of the poor: merchants who cannot even wait for the holy days...
No. 3617 Amos 1:11-15
Amos pronounces judgment on the surrounding nations for their crimes, and two are named here. Edom is condemned because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity, nursing his anger...
No. 3789 Amos 9:1-15
Amos begins with a solemn vision of judgment from which there is no escape: though they dig down to Sheol or climb up to heaven, though they hide on the mountaintop or the sea floor, God's hand will find them....
No. 4295 Amos 6:1-9
Amos pronounces a woe on those who are at ease in Zion, the comfortable and secure who lounge on beds of ivory, dine on choice meat, drink wine in bowls, and indulge themselves, but, the prophet says, are not...