So the LORD cut off Israel’s head and tail, palm branch and reed in a single day.

因此，耶和华一日之间必从以色列中剪除头与尾，棕枝与芦苇。

耶和华在一日之间从以色列中剪除了头与尾—棕树枝与芦苇—

耶和华在一日之间从以色列中剪除了头与尾—棕树枝与芦苇—

因此，耶和华要在一日之间铲除以色列的头和尾。

因此，耶和华在一日之间，必从以色列中剪除头和尾、棕枝与芦苇。

所以耶和华必在一日之内，从以色列中剪除头和尾，剪除棕枝和芦苇——

因此，耶和華一日之間必從以色列中剪除頭與尾，棕枝與蘆葦－

耶和華在一日之間從以色列中剪除了頭與尾－棕樹枝與蘆葦－

耶和華在一日之間從以色列中剪除了頭與尾－棕樹枝與蘆葦－

因此，耶和華要在一日之間剷除以色列的頭和尾。

因此，耶和華在一日之間，必從以色列中剪除頭和尾、棕枝與蘆葦。

因此永恆主從以色列中剪除了頭與尾，就在一日之間、剪除棕枝與燈草——（

所以耶和華必在一日之內，從以色列中剪除頭和尾，剪除棕枝和蘆葦——

故一日之間、耶和華斷以色列之首尾、椶枝與蘆葦、

故一日之間、耶和華絕以色列族之眾、自尊逮卑、自喬木至於叢葦、靡不斬伐、

故主在以色列族中、一日之間、絕首與尾、㯶枝與蘆葦、

So the Lord will cut off from Israel both head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day;

So he will cut off from Israel heads and tails alike. In a single day he will cut off palm branches and tall grass alike. The palm branches are the people who rule over others. The tall grass is the people who bow down to them.

So the Lord cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day—

Therefore, in a single day the Lord will destroy both the head and the tail, the noble palm branch and the lowly reed.

So the Lord cuts off head and tail from Israel, Both palm branch and bulrush in a single day.

Therefore the Lord will cut off head and tail from Israel, Palm branch and bulrush in one day.

Therefore Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm- branch and rush, in one day.

So the Lord cut off Israel’s head and tail, palm branch and reed in a single day.

Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.

So the LORD cut off Israel’s head and tail, both the shoots and stalk in one day.

Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day.

No head or tail, palm or reed, will be able to do anything for Egypt.

For this reason her plagues will come in just one day— death and grief and famine. She will be burned up with fire, because the Lord God who judges her is mighty.

Escape will fail the swift, the strong one will not maintain his strength, and the warrior will not save his life.The archer will not stand his ground, the one who is swift of foot will not save himself, and the one riding a horse will not save his life.Even the most courageous of the warriors will flee naked on that day— this is the LORD’s declaration.

Therefore, I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the countryside, a planting area for a vineyard. I will roll her stones into the valley and expose her foundations.All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again for a prostitute.Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like the jackals and mourn like ostriches.

So I am like rot to Ephraim and like decay to the house of Judah.When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria and sent a delegation to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. Yes, I will tear them to pieces and depart. I will carry them off, and no one can rescue them.

You will stumble by day; the prophet will also stumble with you by night. And I will destroy your mother.

for in a single hour such fabulous wealth was destroyed! And every shipmaster, seafarer, the sailors, and all who do business by sea, stood far off

For the LORD commands: The large house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.

She conceived again and gave birth to a daughter, and the LORD said to him: Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel. I will certainly take them away.

Then the LORD said to him: Name him Jezreel, for in a little while I will bring the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu and put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said: Strike the capitals of the pillars so that the thresholds shake; knock them down on the heads of all the people. Then I will kill the rest of them with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.If they dig down to Sheol, from there my hand will take them; if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.If they hide on the top of Carmel, from there I will track them down and seize them; if they conceal themselves from my sight on the sea floor, from there I will command the sea serpent to bite them.And if they are driven by their enemies into captivity, from there I will command the sword to kill them. I will keep my eye on them for harm and not for good.The Lord, the GOD of Armies— he touches the earth; it melts, and all who dwell in it mourn; all of it rises like the Nile and subsides like the Nile of Egypt.He builds his upper chambers in the heavens and lays the foundation of his vault on the earth. He summons the water of the sea and pours it out over the surface of the earth. The LORD is his name.Israelites, are you not like the Cushites to me? This is the LORD’s declaration. Didn’t I bring Israel from the land of Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Arameans from Kir?Look, the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will obliterate it from the face of the earth. However, I will not totally destroy the house of Jacob— this is the LORD’s declaration—for I am about to give the command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations, as one shakes a sieve, but not a pebble will fall to the ground.

Therefore, they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, or like smoke from a window.

Israel’s Light will become a fire, and its Holy One, a flame. In one day it will burn and consume Assyria’s thorns and thistles.

The LORD asked me,“ What do you see, Amos?” I replied,“ A plumb line.” Then the Lord said,“ I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will no longer spare them:Isaac’s high places will be deserted, and Israel’s sanctuaries will be in ruins; I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with a sword.”

this iniquity of yours will be like a crumbling gap, a bulge in a high wall whose collapse will come in an instant— suddenly!

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria. He deported the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, along the Habor( Gozan’s river), and in the cities of the Medes.This disaster happened because the people of Israel sinned against the LORD their God who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt and because they worshiped other gods.They lived according to the customs of the nations that the LORD had dispossessed before the Israelites and according to what the kings of Israel did.The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. They built high places in all their towns from watchtower to fortified city.They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.They burned incense there on all the high places just like the nations that the LORD had driven out before them had done. They did evil things, angering the LORD.They served idols, although the LORD had told them,“ You must not do this.”Still, the LORD warned Israel and Judah through every prophet and every seer, saying,“ Turn from your evil ways and keep my commands and statutes according to the whole law I commanded your ancestors and sent to you through my servants the prophets.”But they would not listen. Instead they became obstinate like their ancestors who did not believe the LORD their God.They rejected his statutes and his covenant he had made with their ancestors and the warnings he had given them. They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves, following the surrounding nations the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.They abandoned all the commands of the LORD their God. They made cast images for themselves, two calves, and an Asherah pole. They bowed in worship to all the stars in the sky and served Baal.They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire and practiced divination and interpreted omens. They devoted themselves to do what was evil in the LORD’s sight and angered him.Therefore, the LORD was very angry with Israel, and he removed them from his presence. Only the tribe of Judah remained.Even Judah did not keep the commands of the LORD their God but lived according to the customs Israel had practiced.So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel, punished them, and handed them over to plunderers until he had banished them from his presence.

Therefore, this is what the LORD says: Your wife will be a prostitute in the city, your sons and daughters will fall by the sword, and your land will be divided up with a measuring line. You yourself will die on pagan soil, and Israel will certainly go into exile from its homeland.

heroes and warriors, judges and prophets, fortune-tellers and elders,commanders of fifty and dignitaries, counselors, cunning magicians, and necromancers.

Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like discarded pottery.

So it will be done to you, Bethel, because of your extreme evil. At dawn the king of Israel will be totally destroyed.

Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird: no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.Even if they raise children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe to them when I depart from them!I have seen Ephraim like Tyre, planted in a meadow, so Ephraim will bring out his children to the executioner.Give them, LORD— What should you give? Give them a womb that miscarries and breasts that are dry!All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I began to hate them. I will drive them from my house because of their evil, wicked actions. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.Ephraim is struck down; their roots are withered; they cannot bear fruit. Even if they bear children, I will kill the precious offspring of their wombs.My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they will become wanderers among the nations.

They will stand far off in fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the mighty city! For in a single hour your judgment has come.

Then the LORD said: Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not my people, and I will not be your God.

The LORD says: As the shepherd snatches two legs or a piece of an ear from the lion’s mouth, so the Israelites who live in Samaria will be rescued with only the corner of a bed or the cushion of a couch.

She has fallen; Virgin Israel will never rise again. She lies abandoned on her land with no one to raise her up.For the Lord GOD says: The city that marches out a thousand strong will have only a hundred left, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have only ten left in the house of Israel.