Amos - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 617

‘ As after a lion a shepherd picks up Two feet, or the part of an car, So shall the children of Israel be At Shomeron hid in a nook, Or laid in a. bed in Damask. Oh House of jacob! reuse, listen and wake} Says the Mreurv Loan Gov of Sabaoth! ‘ For when I bring Israel’s sin on himself, And punish the Altars of Bethel, I will cut 0E the horns of his altars, And throw to the ground I When I cut off the Palace of Winter, Along with the House in the Park, And abolish the houses of marble, Then many buildings shall fall I ' Says the Loan! 3 Warning in Qlurrupt Woman. Listen to this Message, you cows

of Bashan, who are on the hills of Shomeron! Who oppress the weak, who crush the wretched, but say to Come onl Let us -—'l`he MIGHTY LORD has sworn by His holiness that the times shall come upon you when you shall be hung on hooks and your followers on iish hooks, and you shall be pulled out quivering,-·-—and as an exposed woman,—and they will fling you to says the Evnamrvme. Come to Bethel and sin! To

Gilgal and multiply sins l-—~Bring your sacrifices to the Morning,~·-·and your three yearly tithes, and incense with ferment,—·~give thanks and oifer your vows in public,—-·for you love that, Sons of Israel! Therefore I, also, have given you cleanness of teeth in all your towns, and want of bread in all your homes, because you says the And I have also held back the showers from you, in the third month at harvest, and have rained upon a village here, and not on a village there ;-I rained rain upon one district,—·—but the district not rained upon withered. S0 two or three villages travelled to the one village to drink water, but were not refreshed,--yet they did not turn to says the EvER—L1VING. ‘ Then I inllicted upon you blight-, with mildew upon your plentiful gardens, and vine and hg, and olive yards. The grub devoured them. says the Evan-LIVING. ‘ Is not your disease from the

direction ofthe Mitzeraim ?——I slew your soldiers by the sword, with the loss of your heroes. I have brought the stink of your camps to your nose; but you have not turned to Me,’ says the EvER·LIv1NG. ‘I have overwhelmed among you,

as when GOD overwhelmed Sodom and Gomorah, and you became like a stick snatched from a iire;··—-but says the Evan-LLv1NG. Consequently I will do thus to you,

revolting Israel !———and because I do it to you, Israel, prepare to meet your GOD l-—for be sure that the Former ofthe Hills,—··the Creator of the Wind,-—-the Reporter to man of what I2 IO Il I2 He decides-——Who uses the wings of darkness, and walks on the heights of the earth,-—-His Name is the LORD or Hosrsl Listen to this message that I bring 5 to you ;·—- @32 Eauwnt fur the ihuusz uf israel. Israel’s daughter has fallen and cannot arisel She lies stretched on the ground without help! For thus says the MIGHTY LORD,···-— where a hundred came out, ten are ‘To the City that brought out a left to the House of Israel. thousand, a hundred are left; and Thus says the EVER-LIVING to the 4 6 I 7