Amos (prophet)
Amos was one of the Twelve Minor Prophets. An older contemporary of Hosea and Isaiah, Amos was active c. 750 BC during the reign of Jeroboam II.
Quotes
- “They do not know how to do right,” declares the Lord,
- “who store up in their fortresses
- what they have plundered and looted.”
- 3:10 NIV
- I despise your religious festivals;
- your assemblies are a stench to me.
- Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings,
- I will not accept them.
- Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,
- I will have no regard for them.
- Away with the noise of your songs!
- I will not listen to the music of your harps.
- But let justice roll on like a river,
- righteousness like a never-failing stream!
- 5:21-24 NIV
- The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb, with a plumb line in his hand. And the Lord asked me, "What do you see, Amos?"
- "A plumb line," I replied.
- Then the Lord said, "Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer."
- 7:7-8 NIV
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