Quotes about Judgment
“Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”
— Amos 3:2
If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?
— Amos 3:6
“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”
— Amos 3:10
I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end,” declares the LORD.
— Amos 3:15
You will go out through broken walls, each one straight ahead of her, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,” declares the LORD.
— Amos 4:3
“I beset all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
— Amos 4:6
“Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
— Amos 4:11
“Therefore, that is what I will do to you, O Israel, and since I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!
— Amos 4:12
Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:
— Amos 5:1
This is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand strong will only see a hundred return, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”
— Amos 5:3
Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.
— Amos 5:5
He flashes destruction on the strong, so that fury comes upon the stronghold.
— Amos 5:9