Quotes about Judgment
“I beset all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
— Amos 4:6
“Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
— Amos 4:11
“Therefore, that is what I will do to you, O Israel, and since I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!
— Amos 4:12
Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:
— Amos 5:1
This is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand strong will only see a hundred return, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”
— Amos 5:3
Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.
— Amos 5:5
He flashes destruction on the strong, so that fury comes upon the stronghold.
— Amos 5:9
Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.
— Amos 5:13
Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.
— Amos 5:16
There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.
— Amos 5:17
Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.
— Amos 5:18
Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.
— Amos 5:27