Quotes about Israel
On the day I punish Israel for their transgressions, I will visit destruction on the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off, and they will fall to the ground.
— Amos 3:14
Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.
— Amos 4:5
Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:
— Amos 5:1
“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”
— Amos 5:2
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
For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!
— Amos 5:4
Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
— Amos 5:25
Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.
— Amos 6:1
For behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD, the God of Hosts, “and they will oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.”
— Amos 6:14
The high places of Isaac will be deserted, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with My sword.”
— Amos 7:9
Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words,
— Amos 7:10
for this is what Amos has said: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”
— Amos 7:11