Quotes about Amos
The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
- Amos 4:2
Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:
- Amos 5:1
He flashes destruction on the strong, so that fury comes upon the stronghold.
- Amos 5:9
There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.
- Amos 5:10
For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.
- Amos 5:12
Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
- Amos 5:15
Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?
- Amos 5:20
Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.
- Amos 5:22
But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
- Amos 5:24
Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
- Amos 5:25
You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.
- Amos 5:26
Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.
- Amos 5:27