Quotes about Divine
Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.
— Amos 5:16
There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.
— Amos 5:17
And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
— Amos 7:2
So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.
— Amos 7:3
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.
— Amos 7:4
Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
— Amos 7:5
So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.
— Amos 7:6
This is what He showed me: Behold, the Lord was standing by a wall true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand.
— Amos 7:7
But the LORD took me from following the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to My people Israel.’
— Amos 7:15
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.
— Amos 8:1
“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