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Ay, the Lord God says, but a hundred citizens, but ten villagers left to you, city that marched out a thousand, village a hundred strong! (Amos 5, 3)
This doom he utters, he, the Lord of hosts, he, our Master: Market-place or street is none but shall echo with wailing and cries of woe; country-folk, and such as are skilled in mourning, they shall call in to make dirge and dole;✻ (Amos 5, 16)
Fools, that wait eagerly for the day of the Lord’s coming! Think you it shall serve your turn? Nay, it is the Lord’s day of triumph, not yours; dawn it must, but in darkness, not in light. (Amos 5, 18)
Oh, but I am sick and tired of them, your solemn feasts; incense that goes up from your assemblies I can breathe no longer! (Amos 5, 21)
Lead their folk they shall, but into exile; the revel must break up at last. (Amos 6, 7)
But now the Lord shewed me a third vision; a plastered wall, and the Lord himself standing by it with a trowel✻ in his hand, (Amos 7, 7)
I was but tending sheep when the Lord took me into his service. It was the Lord bade me go and prophesy to his people of Israel. (Amos 7, 15)
You that for a debt, though it were but the price of a pair of shoes, will make slaves of poor, honest folk; you that sell refuse for wheat! (Amos 8, 6)
All your feasting turned to lament, all your songs to dirge and dole; not a loin but goes clad in sackcloth, not a head but is shaved bald; never was such mourning made, though it were for an only son; bitter the day, bitter its ending. (Amos 8, 10)
Let enemy drive them into exile, even there the sword shall be my pursuivant; watch and ward I keep over them, never doubt it, but to their undoing.… (Amos 9, 4)
A time is coming, the Lord says, when ploughman shall tread on the heels of reaper, sower’s task begin ere vintager’s is ended; never a mountain-side but shall run with sweet wine, never a hill but its rugged nature shall be tamed.✻ (Amos 9, 13)
But now, see how Esau is ransacked, how all his treasury is rifled! (Obadiah 1, 6)
