Quotes about Amos
You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.
- Amos 6:3
You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.
- Amos 6:5
For the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.”
- Amos 6:11
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.
- Amos 7:1
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.
- Amos 7:4
Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words,
- Amos 7:10
for this is what Amos has said: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”
- Amos 7:11
And Amaziah said to Amos, “Go away, you seer! Flee to the land of Judah; earn your bread there and do your prophesying there.
- Amos 7:12
But never prophesy at Bethel again, because it is the sanctuary of the king and the temple of the kingdom.”
- Amos 7:13
“I was not a prophet,” Amos replied, “nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees.
- Amos 7:14
But the LORD took me from following the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to My people Israel.’
- Amos 7:15
Now, therefore, hear the word of the LORD. You say: ‘Do not prophesy against Israel; do not preach against the house of Isaac.’
- Amos 7:16