Amos

Vision of Bethel worship center                                     verse 1 

I saw the Lord standing upon the altar – and HE said

Smite the lintel of the door – that the posts may shake

and cut them in the head – all of them

And I will slay the last of them with the sword

he that flees of them shall … Read More

Vision of basket of summer fruit                         verse 1- 3

Thus has the Lord GOD showed to me

            and BEHOLD a basket of summer fruit

AND HE said

            Amos – what see you?

AND I said

A basket of summer fruit

THEN said the LORD to me

The end is come upon MY people of Israel

              I will not… Read More

LORD showed Amos vision of locust                     verse 1- 2a 

Thus has the Lord GOD showed unto me

and behold

HE formed grasshoppers

in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth

AND lo

it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings

AND it came to pass

that when they had made an end

of eating the grass … Read More

Introduction to Funeral song                                        verse 1 

Hear ye this word which I take up against you – even a lamentation

O house of Israel 

Song about helpless virgin Israel                                   verse 2 

The virgin of Israel is fallen

            she shall no more rise – she is forsaken upon her land

there is none to raise her up 

LORD states ten percent … Read More

Drinking selfish women                                       verse 1 

Hear this word – you kine of Bashan

that are in the mountain of Samaria

which oppress the poor

which crush the needy

which say to their masters

Bring and let us drink 

Judgment of these women                                   verse 2- 3 

The Lord GOD has sworn by HIS holiness

that – … Read More

LORD judges the nation of Moab                                verse 1- 3 

Thus says the LORD

For three transgressions of Moab – and for four

I will not turn away the punishment thereof

BECAUSE he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime

BUT I will send a fire upon Moab

and it shall devour the palaces of Kirloth

and Moab … Read More

Calling of a shepherd                                                    verse 1 

The words of Amos – who was among the herdmen of Tekoa

which he saw concerning Israel

in the days of Uzziah the king of Judah

in the days of Jeroboam

the son of Joash king of Israel

                                                two years before the earthquake 

Amos has a vision of a famine                                       verse 2 

AND he … Read More

LORD has message for both Israel and Judah             verse 1

Hear the word that the LORD has spoken against you

O children of Israel

against the whole family which

I brought up from the land of Egypt

saying

LORD chose Israel and Judah alone                            verse 2

You only have I known of all the families of the earth

THEREFORE … Read More

Vision of basket of summer fruit                          verse 1- 3
 
Thus has the Lord GOD showed unto me
            and BEHOLD a basket of summer fruit
AND HE said
            Amos – what see you?
AND I said
           A basket of summer fruit… Read More