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Amos 3:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Proclaim on the citadels in Ashdod and on the citadels in the land of Egypt: Assemble on the mountains of Samaria, and see the great turmoil in the city and the acts of oppression within it.

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Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who are on the hill of Samaria, women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to their husbands, ‘Bring us something to drink.’


Woe to those who are at ease in Zion and to those who feel secure on the hill of Samaria – the notable people in this first of the nations, those the house of Israel comes to.


I will cut off the ruler from Ashdod, and the one who wields the sceptre from Ashkelon. I will also turn my hand against Ekron, and the remainder of the Philistines  will perish. The Lord God has spoken.


We can buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and even sell the chaff! ’


Announce to the nations; proclaim and raise up a signal flag; proclaim, and hide nothing. Say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel  is put to shame; Marduk is terrified.’ Her idols are put to shame; her false gods devastated.


You will plant vineyards again on the mountains of Samaria; the planters will plant and will enjoy the fruit.


After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer  to Ashdod,


I will make them one nation in the land,  on the mountains of Israel, and one king will rule over all of them.  They will no longer be two nations and will no longer be divided into two kingdoms.


‘ “You, mountains of Israel, will produce your branches  and bear your fruit for my people Israel, since their arrival is near.


Announce it in Egypt, and proclaim it in Migdol! Proclaim it in Memphis and in Tahpanhes! Say, ‘Take positions! Prepare yourself, for the sword devours all around you.’


Do not tell it in Gath, don’t announce it in the marketplaces of Ashkelon, or the daughters of the Philistines will rejoice, and the daughters of the uncircumcised will celebrate.


Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from him, you will never live in the houses of cut stone you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.


We’ll find all kinds of valuable property and fill our houses with plunder.


A gracious woman gains honour, but violent  people gain only riches.


Again, I observed all the acts of oppression being done under the sun.  Look at the tears of those who are oppressed; they have no one to comfort them. Power is with those who oppress them; they have no one to comfort them.


when I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim  and the crimes of Samaria will be exposed. For they practise fraud; a thief breaks in; a raiding party pillages outside.


You dismiss any thought of the evil day and bring in a reign of violence.


Are there still  the treasures of wickedness and the accursed short measure in the house of the wicked?





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