Will a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey for him? Will a young lion cry out of his den unless he has caught?

Will a bird fall into a trap on the ground, and there is no bait for it? Will a trap spring up from the ground, and nothing at all be caught?

For they do not know to do right, says Jehovah, those who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

The virgin of Israel has fallen; she shall rise no more; she lies forsaken on her land. There is none to raise her up.

For I know your many transgressions and your many sins. They afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate.

Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

So now they shall go into exile with the first of the exiles. And the feast of those who stretch themselves shall cease.

And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he who burns him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say to him left in the recesses of the house, Are any still with you? And he shall say, No. Then he shall say, Hush! For not one shall mention the name of Jehovah.

Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah: I was no prophet, nor was I a prophet's son. But I was a herdsman and a gatherer from sycamore trees.

Now then hear the Word of Jehovah. You say, Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not drop words against the house of Isaac.

saying, When will the new moon be gone so that we may sell grain? And the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small and the shekel great, and perverting the balances by deceit;

And I will plant them on their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, says Jehovah your God.