Nevi’im 551 5, 6, 7 will I regard your choice shouting of the revellers will Thus hath Adonoi shelamim (peace offerings). die. Hashem showed unto |23| Take thou away from Me |8| Adonoi Hashem hath 7me; and, hinei, He the noise of thy shirim (songs); sworn by Himself, saith formed locusts in the for I will not hear the melody Hashem Elohei Tzva'os: beginning of the of thy nevalim (harps). I abhor the ga’on Ya'akov, and springing up of the second |24| But let mishpat run hate his fortresses; therefore crop; and, hinei, it was the down as mayim, and tzedakah will I deliver up the city with second crop after the mowing as a never failing stream. all that is therein. of the melech. |25| Did ye offer unto Me |9| And it shall come to pass, |2| And it came to pass, that zevakhim and minchah in the if there remain asarah when they had made an end midbar arba'im shanah, O anashim in one bais, they of eating the vegetation of Bais Yisroel? shall die. ha'aretz, then I said, O Adonoi |26| But ye have borne the |10| And a man's relative Hashem, forgive, I beseech shrine of your and the shall take him up, and he that thee; how shall Ya'akov pedestal of your tzelamim, burieth him, to carry out the survive? For he is katon. your star g-d, which ye made bones out of the bais, and |3| Hashem relented for this; for yourselves. shall say unto him still hiding It shall not be, saith Hashem. |27| Therefore will I cause inside, Is there yet any with |4| Thus hath Adonoi you to go into golus beyond thee? And he shall say, Not Hashem showed unto me; , saith Hashem one. Then shall he say, Hold and, hinei, Adonoi Hashem Elohei Tzva'os Shmo. thy tongue; for the Shem called to punish with eish, and Hoy to them that are Hashem is not to be invoked. it devoured the tehom rabbah complacent in Tziyon, |11| For, hinei, Hashem (great deep), and did devour 6and have their bitachon commandeth, and He will the chelek (portion). in Har Shomron, the notables strike the bais hagadol into |5| Then said I, O Adonoi of the foremost Goyim, to ruins, and the bais hakaton Hashem, cease, I beseech thee; whom Bais Yisroel comes! into pieces. how shall Ya'akov survive? For |2| Pass ye unto Calneh, and |12| Do susim run upon the he is katon. see; and from thence go ye to rock? Do men plow there with |6| Hashem relented for this: great Chamat; then go down to oxen? For ye have turned This also shall not be, saith Gat of the Pelishtim mishpat into poison, and the Adonoi Hashem. (); be they better p’ri of tzedakah into |7| Thus He showed me; and, than these mamlachot? Or wormwood; hinei, Hashem stood upon a their territory more vast than |13| Ye which rejoice over chomah (wall) made with a your territory? what is worthless, which say, plumb line, and a plumb line |3| Ye that put far away the Have we not taken to us horns in His hand. Yom Rah, and cause the [i.e., symbols of military |8| And Hashem said unto shevet chamas to come near; resources] by chazekeinu (our me, Amos, what seest thou? |4| That lie upon beds of own strength)? And I said, A plumb line. ivory, and stretch themselves |14| But, hineni, I will raise Then said Hashem, Hineni, I upon their couches, and eat up against you a Goy (Nation), will set a plumb line in the the lambs out of the tzon, and O Bais Yisroel, saith Hashem midst of My people Yisroel; I the calves from the stall; Elohei Tzva'os; and they shall will not again pass by them |5| Who prattle to the tune of afflict you from the territory of [and spare them] anymore; the nevel (harp); like Dovid Chamat unto the Wadi of the |9| And the high places of [HaMelech] they invent string Aravah. Yitzchak shall be desolate, instruments. T.N. Notice in the next chapter and the mikdeshei Yisroel (i.e., |6| That drink yayin in that Amos refuses to be heathen sanctuaries) shall be sacrificial bowls, and anoint intimidated by an apostate laid waste; and I will rise themselves with the finest religious leader who dares to against the Bais Yarov`am ointments; but they are not war against Scripture. Amos with the cherev. grieved for the shever Yosef gives a prophetic prediction |10| Then Amatzyah the (ruin of Yosef). that this chalatan will be kohen of Beit-El sent to |7| Therefore now shall they defrocked by Hashem by being Yarov`am Melech Yisroel, go into captivity at the head of dragged off to an unclean saying, Amos hath the golus, and the merry heathen land.