O generation, see the Word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of darkness? Why do My people say, We roam; we will come no more to You.
And Pharaoh said to him, But what are you lacking with me, that, behold, you are seeking to go to your land? And he said, Nothing. However, sending you shall send me away.
And Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, spoke to him and said, From the beginning of the bringing of the heave offering to the house of Jehovah, it was eaten, and it satisfied, and abundance was left; for Jehovah has blessed His people, and this abundance is left.
I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth. I did not say to Jacob’s seed, Seek Me in vain. I Jehovah speak righteousness, declaring uprightness.
For long ago you broke your yoke and tore up your bonds. And you said, I will not pass by, when on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down like one doing adultery.
I will go up for myself to the great men and will speak to them. For they have known the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God. Surely, together they have broken the yoke; they have torn off the bonds.
On account of this a lion out of the forest shall strike them; a wolf of the desert shall destroy them; a leopard is watching over their cities. Everyone who goes out from them shall be torn, because their transgressions are many; their apostasies are numerous.
The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
You are already being satiated; you already became rich; you reigned without us (and I would that you really did reign, so that we also might reign together with you!)
And I shall bring them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I have sworn to their fathers. And they shall eat and be satisfied, and become fat, and shall turn to other gods; and they shall serve them and despise Me and break My covenant.