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and now, the city breached, mount wall, climb house-top, enter by windows, the thief’s way. (Joel 2, 9)
doubt you shall have none thenceforward that I, the Lord your God, have my dwelling-place at Jerusalem; a holy city Jerusalem shall be, never again shall alien foe breach the walls of her. (Joel 3, 17)
Sounds trumpet in the streets, men do well to be afraid; if peril is afoot in the city, doubt not it is of the Lord’s sending. (Amos 3, 6)
Never let me be called holy, the Lord God says, if doom does not overtake you for this; see if you be not trussed on spears, and your children given up to feed the cooking-pan!✻ (Amos 4, 2)
Leave the city walls you must, the Lord says, one by this breach, one by that, and be cast away in Armon. (Amos 4, 3)
What would you? Never a city left but men’s teeth were idle, never a village but bread lacked there, and you would not come back to me, the Lord says. (Amos 4, 6)
It was three months to harvest, and rain I denied you; or rain fell on one city, and not on the next, one village had a drenching and the next was dry, (Amos 4, 7)
till one city must supply water for three neighbours, and none had its fill, and you would not come back to me. (Amos 4, 8)
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)
Ill looks he will earn at yonder city gate, that finds fault; the wise word, there, is a thing abominable. (Amos 5, 10)
By my divine power I swear it, says the Lord God of hosts, pride of yours shall weary me, great houses of yours shall offend my sight, no longer; city and citizens, I will leave you at the enemy’s mercy. (Amos 6, 8)
Here, then, is the divine doom pronounced on thee: Wife of thine, here in the city streets, shall be dishonoured; sons and daughters of thine shall die at the sword’s point; lands of thine shall feel the measuring-rope. And for thyself, on unhallowed soil death awaits thee, when Israel is banished, as banished it needs must be, from the land of its birth. (Amos 7, 17)
