Amos - Chapter 5
18 Woe unto you that desire the day of
the LORD! Wherefore would ye have the day of the LORD? It is darkness,
and not light. 19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him;
and went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent
bit him. 20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light?
Even very dark, and no brightness in it? 21 I hate, I despise your feasts,
and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies. 22 Yea, though ye
offer me burnt-offerings and your meal-offerings, I will not accept them;
neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your fat beasts. 23 Take
thou away from Me the noise of thy songs; and let Me not hear the melody
of thy psalteries. 24 But let justice well up as waters, and righteousness
as a mighty stream. 25 Did ye bring unto Me sacrifices and offerings in
the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? 26 So shall ye take up
Siccuth your king and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye
made to yourselves. 27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity
beyond Damascus, saith He, whose name is the LORD God of hosts.
Amos - Chapter 9
13 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake
the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains
shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. 14 And I will turn
the captivity of My people Israel, and they shall build the waste cities,
and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof;
they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. 15 And I will
plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be plucked up out of
their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.
Reprinted from Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures,
© 1985, The Jewish Publication Society with the permission of the
publisher, The Jewish Publication Society