Hos 13:3, Amo 2:14-16, 3:12, 5:2-3, 6:11, 7:8-9, 17, 9:1-9, Mic 1:6-8 | ESV | STEP | Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away , like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window .

3 Therefore they shall be ^alike the morning mist
or ^blike the dew that goes early away,
^clike the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor
or ^dlike smoke from a window.

Amos 2:14-16

14 ^eFlight shall perish from the swift,
^fand the strong shall not retain his strength,
^gnor shall the mighty save his life;
15 he who handles the bow shall not stand,
and he who is ^hswift of foot shall not save himself,
ⁱnor shall he who rides the horse save his life;
16 and he who is stout of heart among the mighty
shall flee away naked in that day,”

declares the Lord.

Amos 3:12

12 Thus says the Lord: ^j“As the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, ^kso shall the people of Israel ^lwho dwell in Samaria be rescued, with the corner of a couch and part ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain} of a bed.

Amos 5:2-3

2 “Fallen, no more to rise,
is ⁿthe virgin Israel;
forsaken on her land,
with none to raise her up.”
3 For thus says the Lord God:

“The city that went out a thousand
shall have a hundred left,
and that which went out a hundred
shall have ten left
to the house of Israel.”

Amos 6:11

11 For behold, the Lord commands,
and ^othe great house shall be struck down into fragments,
and the little house into bits.

Amos 7:8-9

8 And the Lord said to me, ^p“Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said,

“Behold, I am setting ^qa plumb line
in the midst of my people Israel;
^rI will never again pass by them;
9 ^sthe high places of Isaac shall be made desolate,
and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste,
and I will rise against ^tthe house of Jeroboam with the sword.”

Amos 7:17

17 ^uTherefore thus says the Lord:

“‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city,
and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword,
and your land ^vshall be divided up with a measuring line;
you yourself shall die in an unclean land,
and ^wIsrael shall surely go into exile away from its land.’”

Amos 9:1-9

The Destruction of Israel

1 I saw the Lord standing beside ^{▼▼Or on} the altar, and he said:

^y“Strike the capitals until ^zthe thresholds ^aashake,
^aband shatter them on the heads of all the people; ^{▼▼Hebrew all of them}
and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword;
^adnot one of them shall flee away;
not one of them shall escape.
2 ^ae“If they dig into Sheol,
from there shall my hand take them;
^afif they climb up to heaven,
from there I will bring them down.
3 If they hide themselves on ^agthe top of Carmel,
from there I will search them out and take them;
^ahand if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea,
there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
4 ^aiAnd if they go into captivity before their enemies,
there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them;
^ajand I will fix my eyes upon them
for evil and not for good.”
5 The Lord God of hosts,
he who touches the earth and ^akit melts,
and all who dwell in it mourn,
^aland all of it rises like the Nile,
^amand sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;
6 ^anwho builds his upper chambers in the heavens
and founds his vault upon the earth;
^aowho calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—
^apthe Lord is his name.
7 “Are you not like ^aqthe Cushites to me,
O people of Israel?” declares the Lord.
^ar“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
and ^asthe Philistines from ^atCaphtor and the Syrians from ^auKir?
8 Behold, ^avthe eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom,
and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground,
^awexcept that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”

declares the Lord.
9 “For behold, I will command,
^axand shake the house of Israel among all the nations
as one shakes with a sieve,
but no pebble shall fall to the earth.

Micah 1:6-8

6 Therefore I will make ^aySamaria ^aza heap in the open country,
a place for planting vineyards,
and I will pour down her stones ^bainto the valley
and ^bbuncover her foundations.
7 All ^bcher carved images shall be beaten to pieces,
^bdall her wages shall be burned with fire,
and all her idols I will lay waste,
for from ^bethe fee of a prostitute she gathered them,
and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return.
8 ^bfFor this I will lament and wail;
I will go ^bgstripped and naked;
I will make lamentation ^bhlike the jackals,
and mourning ^bilike the ostriches.