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Amos","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\nfrom etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia\nand Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF AMOS\n\nAMOS prophesied in Israel about the same time as Osee: and was called\nfrom following the cattle to denounce GOD'S judgments to the people of\nIsrael, and the neighbouring nations, for their repeated crimes, in\nwhich they continued without repentance.\n\n\nAmos Chapter 1\n\nThe prophet threatens Damascus, Gaza, Tyre, Edom, and Ammon with the\njudgments of God, for their obstinacy in sin.\n\n1:1. The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Thecua: which he\nsaw concerning Israel in the days of Ozias king of Juda, and in the days\nof Jeroboam the son of Joas king of Israel two years before the\nearthquake.\n\nThe earthquake... Many understand this of a great earthquake, which they\nsay was felt at the time that king Ozias attempted to offer incense in\nthe temple. But the best chronologists prove that the earthquake here\nspoken of must have been before that time: because Jeroboam the second,\nunder whom Amos prophesied, was dead long before that attempt of Ozias.\n\n1:2. And he said: The Lord will roar from Sion, and utter his voice from\nJerusalem: and the beautiful places of the shepherds have mourned, and\nthe top of Carmel is withered.\n\n1:3. Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Damascus, and for four I\nwill not convert it: because they have thrashed Galaad with iron wains.\n\nFor three crimes-and for four... That is, for their many unrepented of\ncrimes.-Ibid. I will not convert it... That is, I will not spare them,\nnor turn away the punishments I design to inflict upon them.\n\n1:4. And I will send a fire into the house of Azael, and it shall devour\nthe houses of Benadad.\n\n1:5. And I will break the bar of Damascus: and I will cut off the\ninhabitants from the plain of the idol, and him that holdeth the sceptre\nfrom the house of pleasure: and the people of Syria shall be carried\naway to Cyrene, saith the Lord.\n\n1:6. Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Gaza, and for four I will\nnot convert it: because they have carried away a perfect captivity to\nshut them up in Edom.\n\n1:7. And I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour the\nhouses thereof.\n\n1:8. And I will cut off the inhabitant from Azotus, and him that holdeth\nthe sceptre from Ascalon: and I will turn my hand against Accaron, and\nthe rest of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord God.\n\n1:9. Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Tyre, and for four I will\nnot convert it: because they have shut up an entire captivity in Edom,\nand have not remembered the covenant of brethren.\n\n1:10. And I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour\nthe houses thereof.\n\n1:11. Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and for four I will\nnot convert him: because he hath pursued his brother with the sword, and\nhath carried on his fury, and hath kept his wrath to the end.\n\n1:12. I will send a fire into Theman: and it shall devour the houses of\nBosra.\n\n1:13. Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of the children of Ammon,\nand for four I will not convert him: because he hath ripped up the women\nwith child of Galaad to enlarge his border.\n\n1:14. And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabba: and it shall devour\nthe houses thereof with shouting in the day of battle, and with a\nwhirlwind in the day of trouble.\n\n1:15. And Melchom shall go into captivity, both he, and his princes\ntogether, saith the Lord.\n\nMelchom... The god or idol of the Ammonites, otherwise called Moloch,\nand Melech: which in Hebrew signifies a king, and Melchom their king.\n\nAmos Chapter 2\n\nThe judgments with which God threatens Moab, Juda, and Israel for their\nsins, and their ingratitude.\n\n2:1. Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four I will\nnot convert him: because he hath burnt the bones of the king of Edom\neven to ashes.\n\n2:2. And I will send a fire into Moab, and it shall devour the houses of\nCarioth: and Moab shall die with a noise, with the sound of the trumpet:\n\n2:3. And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay\nall his princes with him, saith the Lord.\n\n2:4. Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Juda, and for four I will\nnot convert him: because he hath cast away the law of the Lord, and hath\nnot kept his commandments: for their idols have caused them to err,\nafter which their fathers have walked.\n\n2:5. And I will send a fire into Juda, and it shall devour the houses of\nJerusalem.\n\n2:6. Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four I\nwill not convert him: because he hath sold the just man for silver, and\nthe poor man for a pair of shoes.\n\n2:7. They bruise the heads of the poor upon the dust of the earth, and\nturn aside the way of the humble: and the son and his father have gone\nto the same young woman, to profane my holy name.\n\n2:8. And they sat down upon garments laid to pledge by every altar: and\ndrank the wine of the condemned in the house of their God.\n\n2:9. Yet I cast out the Amorrhite before their face: whose height was\nlike the height of cedars, and who was strong as an oak: and I destroyed\nhis fruit from above, and his roots beneath.\n\n2:10. It is I that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and I led\nyou forty years through the wilderness, that you might possess the land\nof the Amorrhite.\n\n2:11. And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men\nfor Nazarites. Is it not so, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord?\n\n2:12. And you will present wine to the Nazarites: and command the\nprophets, saying: Prophesy not.\n\n2:13. Behold, I will screak under you as a wain screaketh that is laden\nwith hay.\n\nI will screak... Unable to bear any longer the enormous load of your\nsins, etc. The spirit of God, as St. Jerome takes notice, accommodates\nhimself to the education of the prophet and inspires him with\ncomparisons taken from country affairs.\n\n2:14. And flight shall perish from the swift, and the valiant shall not\npossess his strength, neither shall the strong save his life.\n\n2:15. And he that holdeth the bow shall not stand, and the swift of foot\nshall not escape, neither shall the rider of the horse save his life.\n\n2:16. And the stout of heart among the valiant shall flee away naked in\nthat day, saith the Lord.\n\nAmos Chapter 3\n\nThe evils that shall fall upon Israel for their sins.\n\n3:1. Hear the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning you, O ye\nchildren of Israel: concerning the whole family that I brought up out of\nthe land of Egypt, saying:\n\n3:2. You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore\nwill I visit upon you all your iniquities.\n\nVisit upon... That is, punish.\n\n3:3. Shall two walk together except they be agreed?\n\n3:4. Will a lion roar in the forest, if he have no prey? will the lion's\nwhelp cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?\n\n3:5. Will the bird fall into the snare upon the earth, if there be no\nfowler? Shall the snare be taken up from the earth, before it hath taken\nsomewhat?\n\n3:6. Shall the trumpet sound in a city, and the people not be afraid?\nShall there be evil in a city, which the Lord hath not done?\n\nEvil in a city... He speaks of the evil of punishments of war, famine,\npestilence, desolation, etc., but not of the evil of sin, of which God\nis not the author.\n\n3:7. For the Lord God doth nothing without revealing his secret to his\nservants the prophets.\n\n3:8. The lion shall roar, who will not fear? The Lord God hath spoken,\nwho shall not prophesy?\n\n3:9. Publish it in the houses of Azotus, and in the houses of the land\nof Egypt, and say: Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria,\nand behold the many follies in the midst thereof, and them that suffer\noppression in the inner rooms thereof.\n\n3:10. And they have not known to do the right thing, saith the Lord,\nstoring up iniquity, and robberies in their houses.\n\n3:11. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: The land shall be in\ntribulation, and shall be compassed about: and thy strength shall be\ntaken away from thee, and thy houses shall be spoiled.\n\n3:12. Thus saith the Lord: As if a shepherd should get out of the lion's\nmouth two legs, or the tip of the ear: so shall the children of Israel\nbe taken out that dwell in Samaria, in a place of a bed, and in the\ncouch of Damascus.\n\n3:13. Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord the God\nof hosts:\n\n3:14. That in the day when I shall begin to visit the transgressions of\nIsrael, I will visit upon him, and upon the altars of Bethel: and the\nhorns of the altars shall be cut off, and shall fall to the ground.\n\n3:15. And I will strike the winter house with the summer house: and the\nhouses of ivory shall perish, and many houses shall be destroyed, saith\nthe Lord.\n\nAmos Chapter 4\n\nThe Israelites are reproved for their oppressing the poor, for their\nidolatry, and their incorrigibleness.\n\n4:1. Hear this word, ye fat kine that are in the mountains of Samaria:\nyou that oppress the needy, and crush the poor: that say to your\nmasters: Bring, and we will drink.\n\nFat kine... He means the great ones that lived in plenty and wealth.\n\n4:2. The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that lo, the days shall\ncome upon you, when they shall lift you up on pikes, and what shall\nremain of you in boiling pots.\n\n4:3. And you shall go out at the breaches one over against the other,\nand you shall be cast forth into Armon, saith the Lord.\n\nArmon... A foreign country; some understand it of Armenia.\n\n4:4. Come ye to Bethel, and do wickedly: to Galgal, and multiply\ntransgressions: and bring in the morning your victims, your tithes in\nthree days.\n\n4:5. And offer a sacrifice of praise with leaven: and call free\nofferings, and proclaim it: for so you would do, O children of Israel,\nsaith the Lord God.\n\n4:6. Whereupon I also have given you dulness of teeth in all your\ncities, and want of bread in all your places: yet you have not returned\nto me, saith the Lord.\n\n4:7. I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three\nmonths to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon on city, and caused\nit not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon: and the\npiece whereupon I rained not, withered.\n\n4:8. And two and three cities went to one city to drink water, and were\nnot filled: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord.\n\n4:9. I struck you with a burning wind, and with mildew, the palmerworm\nhath eaten up your many gardens, and your vineyards: your olive groves,\nand fig groves: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord.\n\n4:10. I sent death upon you in the way of Egypt, I slew your young men\nwith the sword, even to the captivity of your horses: and I made the\nstench of your camp to come up into your nostrils: yet you returned not\nto me, saith the Lord.\n\n4:11. I destroyed some of you, as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, and\nyou were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet you returned not\nto me, saith the Lord.\n\n4:12. Therefore I will do these things to thee, O Israel: and after I\nshall have done these things to thee, be prepared to meet thy God, O\nIsrael.\n\n4:13. For behold he that formeth the mountains and createth the wind,\nand declareth his word to man, he that maketh the morning mist, and\nwalketh upon the high places of the earth: the Lord the God of hosts is\nhis name.\n\nAmos Chapter 5\n\nA lamentation for Israel: an exhortation to return to God.\n\n5:1. Hear ye this word, which I take up concerning you for a\nlamentation. The house of Israel is fallen, and it shall rise no more.\n\n5:2. The virgin of Israel is cast down upon her land, there is none to\nraise her up.\n\n5:3. For thus saith the Lord God: The city, out of which came forth a\nthousand, there shall be left in it a hundred: and out of which there\ncame a hundred, there shall be left in it ten, in the house of Israel.\n\n5:4. For thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and you\nshall live.\n\n5:5. But seek not Bethel, and go not into Galgal, neither shall you pass\nover to Bersabee: for Galgal shall go into captivity, and Bethel shall\nbe unprofitable.\n\nBethel,-Galgal,-Bersabee... The places where they worshipped their\nidols.\n\n5:6. Seek ye the Lord, and live: lest the house of Joseph be burnt with\nfire, and it shall devour, and there shall be none to quench Bethel.\n\n5:7. You that turn judgment into wormwood, and forsake justice in the\nland,\n\n5:8. Seek him that maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and that turneth darkness\ninto morning, and that changeth day into night: that calleth the waters\nof the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is\nhis name.\n\nArcturus and Orion... Arcturus is a bright star in the north: Orion a\nbeautiful constellation in the south.\n\n5:9. He that with a smile bringeth destruction upon the strong, and\nwaste upon the mighty.\n\nWith a smile... That is, with all ease, and without making any effort.\n\n5:10. They have hated him that rebuketh in the gate: and have abhorred\nhim that speaketh perfectly.\n\n5:11. Therefore because you robbed the poor, and took the choice prey\nfrom him: you shall build houses with square stone, and shall not dwell\nin them: you shall plant most delightful vineyards, and shall not drink\nthe wine of them.\n\n5:12. Because I know your manifold crimes, and your grievous sins:\nenemies of the just, taking bribes, and oppressing the poor in the gate.\n\n5:13. Therefore the prudent shall keep silence at that time, for it is\nan evil time.\n\n5:14. Seek ye good, and not evil, that you may live: and the Lord the\nGod of hosts will be with you, as you have said.\n\n5:15. Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the gate: it\nmay be the Lord the God of hosts may have mercy on the remnant of\nJoseph.\n\n5:16. Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of hosts the sovereign Lord:\nIn every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that are\nwithout, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the husbandman\nto mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to lament.\n\n5:17. And in all vineyards there shall be wailing: because I will pass\nthrough in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.\n\n5:18. Woe to them that desire the day of the Lord: to what end is it for\nyou? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.\n\n5:19. As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should\nmeet him: or enter into the house, and lean with his hand upon the wall,\nand a serpent should bite him.\n\n5:20. Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light: and\nobscurity, and no brightness in it?\n\n5:21. I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive\nthe odour of your assemblies.\n\n5:22. And if you offer me holocausts, and your gifts, I will not receive\nthem: neither will I regard the vows of your fat beasts.\n\n5:23. Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: and I will not hear the\ncanticles of thy harp.\n\n5:24. But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a mighty\ntorrent.\n\n5:25. Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty\nyears, O house of Israel?\n\nDid you offer, etc... Except the sacrifices that were offered at the\nfirst, in the dedication of the tabernacle, the Israelites offered no\nsacrifices in the desert.\n\n5:26. But you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch, and the image of your\nidols, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves.\n\nA tabernacle, etc... All this alludes to the idolatry which they\ncommitted, when they were drawn away by the daughters of Moab to the\nworship of their gods. Num. 25.\n\n5:27. And I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith\nthe Lord, the God of hosts is his name.\n\nAmos Chapter 6\n\nThe desolation of Israel for their pride and luxury.\n\n6:1. Woe to you that are wealthy in Sion, and to you that have\nconfidence in the mountain of Samaria: ye great men, heads of the\npeople, that go in with state into the house of Israel.\n\n6:2. Pass ye over to Chalane, and see, and go from thence into Emath the\ngreat: and go down into Geth of the Philistines, and to all the best\nkingdoms of these: if their border be larger than your border.\n\n6:3. You that are separated unto the evil day: and that approach to the\nthrone of iniquity;\n\n6:4. You that sleep upon beds of ivory, and are wanton on your couches:\nthat eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of\nthe herd;\n\n6:5. You that sing to the sound of the psaltery: they have thought\nthemselves to have instruments of music like David;\n\n6:6. That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best\nointments: and they are not concerned for the affliction of Joseph.\n\n6:7. Wherefore now they shall go captive at the head of them that go\ninto captivity: and the faction of the luxurious ones shall be taken\naway.\n\n6:8. The Lord God hath sworn by his own soul, saith the Lord the God of\nhosts: I detest the pride of Jacob, and I hate his houses, and I will\ndeliver up the city with the inhabitants thereof.\n\n6:9. And if there remain ten men in one house, they also shall die.\n\n6:10. And a man's kinsman shall take him up, and shall burn him, that he\nmay carry the bones out of the house; and he shall say to him that is in\nthe inner rooms of the house: Is there yet any with thee?\n\n6:11. And he shall answer: There is an end. And he shall say to him:\nHold thy peace, and mention not the name of the Lord.\n\n6:12. For behold the Lord hath commanded, and he will strike the greater\nhouse with breaches, and the lesser house with clefts.\n\n6:13. Can horses run upon the rocks, or can any one plough with buffles?\nfor you have turned judgment into bitterness, and the fruit of justice\ninto wormwood.\n\n6:14. You that rejoice in a thing of nought: you that say: Have we not\ntaken unto us horns by our own strength?\n\n6:15. But behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of\nIsrael, saith the Lord the God of hosts; and they shall destroy you from\nthe entrance of Emath, even to the torrent of the desert.\n\nAmos Chapter 7\n\nThe prophet sees, in three visions, evils coming upon Israel: he is\naccused of treason by the false priest of Bethel.\n\n7:1. These things the Lord God shewed to me: and behold the locust was\nformed in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter rain, and lo,\nit was the latter rain after the king's mowing.\n\nThe locust, etc... These judgments by locusts and fire, which, by the\nprophet's intercession, were moderated, signify the former invasions of\nthe Assyrians under Phul and Theglathphalasar, before the utter\ndesolation of Israel by Salmanasar.\n\n7:2. And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the\ngrass of the land, I said: O Lord God, be merciful, I beseech thee: who\nshall raise up Jacob, for he is very little?\n\n7:3. The Lord had pity upon this: It shall not be, said the Lord.\n\n7:4. These things the Lord God shewed to me: and behold the Lord called\nfor judgment unto fire, and it devoured the great deep, and ate up a\npart at the same time.\n\n7:5. And I said: O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee, who shall raise up\nJacob, for he is a little one?\n\n7:6. The Lord had pity upon this. Yea this also shall not be, said the\nLord God.\n\n7:7. These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold the Lord was\nstanding upon a plastered wall, and in his hand a mason's trowel.\n\n7:8. And the Lord said to me: What seest thou, Amos? And I said: A\nmason's trowel. And the Lord said: Behold, I will lay down the trowel in\nthe midst of my people Israel. I will plaster them over no more.\n\n7:9. And the high places of the idol shall be thrown down, and the\nsanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste: and I will rise up against\nthe house of Jeroboam with the sword.\n\n7:10. And Amasias the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel,\nsaying: Amos hath rebelled against thee in the midst of the house of\nIsrael: the land is not able to bear all his words.\n\n7:11. For thus saith Amos: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel\nshall be carried away captive out of their own land.\n\nJeroboam shall die by the sword... The prophet did not say this; but\nthat the Lord would rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the\nsword: which was verified, when Zacharias, the son and successor of\nJeroboam, was slain by the sword. 4 Kings 15.10.\n\n7:12. And Amasias said to Amos: Thou seer, go, flee away into the land\nof Juda: and eat bread there, and prophesy there.\n\n7:13. But prophesy not again any more in Bethel: because it is the\nking's sanctuary, and it is the house of the kingdom.\n\n7:14. And Amos answered and said to Amasias: I am not a prophet, nor am\nI the son of a prophet: but I am a herdsman plucking wild figs.\n\nI am not a prophet... That is, I am not a prophet by education: nor is\nprophesying my calling or profession: but I am a herdsman, whom God was\npleased to send hither to prophesy to Israel.\n\n7:15. And the Lord took me when I followed the flock, and the Lord said\nto me: Go, prophesy to my people Israel.\n\n7:16. And now hear thou the word of the Lord: Thou sayest, thou shalt\nnot prophesy against Israel, and thou shalt not drop thy word upon the\nhouse of the idol.\n\nThe house of the idol... Viz., of the calf worshipped in Bethel.\n\n7:17. Therefore thus saith the Lord: Thy wife shall play the harlot in\nthe city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and\nthy land shall be measured by a line: and thou shalt die in a polluted\nland, and Israel shall go into captivity out of their land.\n\nAmos Chapter 8\n\nUnder the figure of a hook, which bringeth down the fruit, the\napproaching desolation of Israel is foreshewed for their avarice and\ninjustices.\n\n8:1. These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold a hook to draw down\nthe fruit.\n\n8:2. And he said: What seest thou, Amos? And I said: A hook to draw down\nfruit. And the Lord said to me: The end is come upon my people Israel: I\nwill not again pass by them any more.\n\n8:3. And the hinges of the temple shall screak in that day, saith the\nLord God: many shall die: silence shall be cast in every place.\n\n8:4. Hear this, you that crush the poor, and make the needy of the land\nto fail,\n\n8:5. Saying: When will the month be over, and we shall sell our wares:\nand the sabbath, and we shall open the corn: that we may lessen the\nmeasure, and increase the sicle, and may convey in deceitful balances,\n\n8:6. That we may possess the needy for money, and the poor for a pair of\nshoes, and may sell the refuse of the corn?\n\n8:7. The Lord hath sworn against the pride of Jacob: surely I will never\nforget all their works.\n\n8:8. Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that\ndwelleth therein: and rise up altogether as a river, and be cast out,\nand run down as the river of Egypt?\n\n8:9. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that the\nsun shall go down at midday, and I will make the earth dark in the day\nof light:\n\n8:10. And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into\nlamentation: and I will bring up sackcloth upon every back of yours, and\nbaldness upon every head: and I will make it as the mourning of an only\nson, and the latter end thereof as a bitter day.\n\n8:11. Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will send forth a\nfamine into the land: not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water, but\nof hearing the word of the Lord.\n\n8:12. And they shall move from sea to sea, and from the north to the\neast: they shall go about seeking the word of the Lord, and shall not\nfind it.\n\n8:13. In that day the fair virgins, and the young men shall faint for\nthirst.\n\n8:14. They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say: Thy God, O Dan,\nliveth: and the way of Bersabee liveth: and they shall fall, and shall\nrise no more.\n\nAmos Chapter 9\n\nThe certainty of the desolation of Israel: the restoring of the\ntabernacle of David, and the conversion of the Gentiles to the church;\nwhich shall flourish for ever.\n\n9:1. I saw the Lord standing upon the altar, and he said: Strike the\nhinges, and let the lintels be shook: for there is covetousness in the\nhead of them all, and I will slay the last of them with the sword: there\nshall be no flight for them: they shall flee, and he that shall flee of\nthem shall not be delivered.\n\n9:2. Though they go down even to hell, thence shall my hand bring them\nout: and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.\n\n9:3. And though they be hid in the top of Carmel, I will search and take\nthem away from thence: and though they hide themselves from my eyes in\nthe depth of the sea, there will I command the serpent and he shall bite\nthem.\n\n9:4. And if they go into captivity before their enemies, there will I\ncommand the sword, and it shall kill them. And I will set my eyes upon\nthem for evil, and not for good.\n\n9:5. And the Lord the God of hosts is he who toucheth the earth, and it\nshall melt: and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up\nas a river, and shall run down as the river of Egypt.\n\n9:6. He that buildeth his ascension in heaven, and hath founded his\nbundle upon the earth: who calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth\nthem out upon the face of the earth, the Lord is his name.\n\nHis ascension... That is, his high throne.-Ibid. His bundle... That is,\nhis church bound up together by the bands of one faith and communion.\n\n9:7. Are not you as the children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children\nof Israel, saith the Lord? did not I bring up Israel, out of the land of\nEgypt: and the Philistines out of Cappadocia, and the Syrians out of\nCyrene?\n\nAs the children of the Ethiopians... That is, as black as they, by your\niniquities.\n\n9:8. Behold the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I\nwill destroy it from the face of the earth: but yet I will not utterly\ndestroy the house of Jacob, saith the Lord.\n\n9:9. For behold I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel\namong all nations, as corn is sifted in a sleve: and there shall not a\nlittle stone fall to the ground.\n\n9:10. All the sinners of my people shall fall by the sword: who say: The\nevils shall not approach, and shall not come upon us.\n\n9:11. In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David, that is\nfallen: and I will close up the breaches of the walls thereof, and\nrepair what was fallen: and I will rebuild it as in the days of old.\n\n9:12. That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all nations,\nbecause my name is invoked upon them: saith the Lord that doth these\nthings.\n\n9:13. Behold the days come, saith the Lord, when the ploughman shall\novertake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed: and\nthe mountains shall drop sweetness, and every hill shall be tilled.\n\nShall overtake, etc... By this is meant the great abundance of spiritual\nblessings; which, as it were, by a constant succession, shall enrich the\nchurch of Christ.\n\n9:14. And I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel: and they\nshall build the abandoned cities, and inhabit them: and they shall plant\nvineyards, and drink the wine of them: and shall make gardens, and eat\nthe fruits of them. And I will plant them upon their own land: and I\nwill no more pluck them out of their land which I have given them, saith\nthe Lord thy God.","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 35: Amos: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":5197}