Nevi’im 549 Amos 2, 3, 4 whose height was like ha’adamah: therefore I will |13| Hear ye, and testify in the height of the cedars, and punish you for kol Bais Ya’akov, saith Adonoi he was strong as the oaks; yet I avonotechem. Hashem Elohei HaTzva'os, destroyed his p’ri from above, |3| Can shnayim walk |14| On the Yom that I visit and his shorashim from together, except they be her to punish the peysha'im of beneath. agreed? Yisroel, I will also visit to |10| Also I brought you up |4| Will an aryeh roar in the punish the mizbechot of Beit- from Eretz Mitzrayim, and led thicket, when he hath no prey? El; and the horns of the you arba'im shanah through Will a lion roar from his den, mizbe'ach shall be cut off, and the midbar, to possess the if he has taken nothing? fall to ha'aretz. Eretz HaEmori (land of the |5| Can a bird fall in a pach |15| And I will strike the bais Amorite). ha'aretz (trap on the ground), hachoref with the bais |11| And I raised up of your when his snare is not set? Can hakayitz; and the batim banim for nevi'im, and of your a pach spring up from ha'aretz (houses) of ivory shall perish, bochurim for Nezirim. Is it without making a capture? and the batim rabbim (great not even thus, O ye Bnei |6| Shall a shofar be blown in houses) shall have an end, Yisroel? saith Hashem. the city, and the people not be saith Hashem. |12| But ye gave the Nezirim afraid? Shall there be disaster Hear this word, ye cows yayin to drink; and in a city, and Hashem hath of Bashan, that are on commanded the nevi'im, not caused it? 4Mt Shomron, which saying, Prophesy not. |7| Surely Adonoi Hashem oppress the poor, which crush |13| Hinei, I am pressed will do nothing, but He the needy, which say to their under you, as a cart is pressed revealeth His sod (secret) unto adonim, Bring, and let us that is full of sheaves. His avadim hanevi'im. drink. |14| Therefore flight shall |8| The aryeh hath roared, |2| Adonoi Hashem hath perish from the swift, and the who will not fear? Adonoi sworn by His Kodesh, that, chazak shall not strengthen Hashem hath spoken, who can hinei, the yamim shall come his ko'ach, neither shall the but prophesy? upon you, that He will take gibbor deliver his own nefesh; |9| Publish in the fortresses you away with hooks, and the |15| Neither shall he stand at Ashdod, and in the last of you with fishhooks. that handleth the keshet; and fortresses in Eretz Mitzrayim, |3| And ye shall go out of the he that is swift of foot shall and say, Assemble yourselves breaks in the wall, every cow not deliver his own nefesh; upon harei Shomron, and right behind the next; and ye neither shall he that rideth the behold the great tumults in shall be cast out toward sus deliver himself. the midst thereof, and the Harmonah, saith Hashem. |16| And he that is oppression in the midst |4| Come to Beit-El, and courageous among the thereof. transgress; at Gilgal multiply gibborim shall flee away |10| For they have no da'as to peysha'im; and bring your naked in that Yom, saith do right, saith Hashem, who zevakhim every boker, and Hashem. store up chamas and shod in your ma'asrot (tithes) every their fortresses. third day; |11| Therefore thus saith |5| And offer a todah thank Adonoi Hashem: An adversary offering with chametz shall surround the land; and (leavened bread), and he shall bring down thy proclaim and publish the strongholds from thee, and thy nedavot (freewill offerings); for fortresses shall be plundered. this ye love, O Bnei Yisroel, |12| Thus saith Hashem: As saith Adonoi Hashem. Hear this word that the ro'eh taketh out of the |6| And I also have given you Hashem hath spoken mouth of the aryeh two legs, or cleanness of teeth [i.e., famine] 3against you, O Bnei a piece of an ozen; so shall the in all your towns, and want of Yisroel, against the kol Bnei Yisroel be saved that lechem in all your places; yet hamishpochoh which I dwell in Shomron—with the have ye not returned unto Me, brought up from Eretz corner of a mittah (bed), and saith Hashem. Mitzrayim, saying, the edge of a couch. |7| And also I have |2| You only have I known of withheld the geshem from all the mishpechot .