Quotes About Faith

You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.

Cross over to Calneh and see; go from there to the great Hamath; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?

For the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.”

“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

you who rejoice in Lo-debar and say, ëDid we not take Karnaim by our own strength?í

And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”

So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.

Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”

So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.

This is what He showed me: Behold, the Lord was standing by a wall true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand.

The high places of Isaac will be deserted, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with My sword.”

for this is what Amos has said: ëJeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.í”

“I was not a prophet,” Amos replied, “nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees.

But the LORD took me from following the flock and said to me, ëGo, prophesy to My people Israel.í

Now, therefore, hear the word of the LORD. You say: ëDo not prophesy against Israel; do not preach against the house of Isaac.í

asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.

Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.

People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.

Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ëAs surely as your god lives, O Dan,í or, ëAs surely as the way of Beersheba livesí—they will fall, never to rise again.”

Though they dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will pull them down.

All the sinners among My people will die by the sword—all those who say, ëDisaster will never draw near or confront us.í”

“In that day I will restore the fallen tent of David. I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old,

that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that bear My name,” declares the LORD, who will do this.

“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow.