While you're at it, present a thank offering with leaven, and publicize your freewill offerings, letting everyone hear about it, because this is what you really love to do, you Israelis," declares the Lord GOD.

"Hear this accusation that I am bringing against you: "A dirge, house of Israel:

Fallen is Israel the virgin never to rise again! She is abandoned on her own land, with no one to raise her up.'

because Amos is saying this: "By the sword will Jeroboam die, and Israel will surely go into exile far from her homeland.'"

So Amaziah kept saying to Amos, "Get out of here, you seer! Go back to the land of Judah. Live there and prophesy there.

"Very well then, hear this message from the LORD: "You are saying, "Don't prophesy against Israel, and don't preach against the house of Isaac."

"Hear this, you who are swallowing up the needy, who intend to make the poor of the land fail,