Quotes about Israel
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals.
— Amos 2:6
I raised up prophets from your sons and Nazirites from your young men. Is this not true, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD.
— Amos 2:11
Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:
— Amos 3:1
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