Quotes about Judgment
“Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”
— Amos 8:2
“In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”
— Amos 8:3
Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.
— Amos 8:8
And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
— Amos 8:9
Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’—they will fall, never to rise again.”
— Amos 8:14
I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.
— Amos 9:1
Though they hide themselves atop Carmel, there I will track them and seize them; and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.
— Amos 9:3
Surely the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” declares the LORD.
— Amos 9:8
All the sinners among My people will die by the sword—all those who say, ‘Disaster will never draw near or confront us.’”
— Amos 9:10
“Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you will be deeply despised.
— Obadiah 1:2
Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
— Obadiah 1:4
In that day, declares the LORD, will I not destroy the wise men of Edom and the men of understanding in the mountains of Esau?
— Obadiah 1:8