Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have rejected the LORD's law, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked;

Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

"Indeed they do not know to do right," says the LORD, "Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces."

"Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD. Why do you long for the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light.

Won't the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword."

For Amos says, 'Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'"

Therefore thus says the LORD: 'Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'"