Quotes About Prophecy

This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Moab, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he burned to lime the bones of Edomís king.

So I will send fire against Moab to consume the citadels of Kerioth. Moab will die in tumult, amid war cries and the sound of the ramís horn.

I will cut off the ruler of Moab and kill all the officials with him,” says the LORD.

So I will send fire upon Judah to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.”

Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.

The lion has roared—who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken—who will not prophesy?

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “An enemy will surround the land; he will pull down your strongholds and plunder your citadels.”

The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

You will go out through broken walls, each one straight ahead of her, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,” declares the LORD.

There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.

Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?

Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.

For behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD, the God of Hosts, “and they will oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.”

This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the kingís harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.

This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.

“Amos, what do you see?” asked the LORD. “A plumb line,” I replied. “Behold,” said the Lord, “I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel; I will no longer spare them:

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.”

Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words,

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”

And Amaziah said to Amos, “Go away, you seer! Flee to the land of Judah; earn your bread there and do your prophesying there.

But never prophesy at Bethel again, because it is the sanctuary of the king and the temple of the kingdom.”

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

Therefore this is what the LORD says: ëYour wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.í”