Amos 3 and 4 perceiving a loss of patience

 

Introduction to my post: If New Testament, CJB online, emphasis in bold or Old Testament from chabad.org, text I emphasize in green; NKJV in magenta; OT in olive. footnotes to CJB in superscript sky blue using Hebrew Bible; Nomads* discussion in yellow; and my comments in gray. I may use endnotes to cite outside literature or extensive comment.   *Participative Sunday-school-class at UBC led by Kenny Tipton. In my view, Kenny appreciates and owns opinion in a continuous search to discover the ineluctable truth.  My evolving statement about Genesis 1:26-28,31 and Psalm 82, now from the Hebrew Bible at chabad.org, is at the end of this post: because I accept Genesis 1’s directive to constrain chaos in my way of living, I may personally attempt to develop a god facing death or angelic person (John 10:36 with reference to Psalm 82:6-7). Understanding this series: Kenny is leading a series of 8 lessons on the book of the 12; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Minor_Prophets. Key points in Amos 3 and 4: the G-d of Israel 3:1-6, out of love, the god will deliver evil to Israel because of their iniquities. 3:7-15 the god communicates clearly to Israel, scattered as they are. 4:1-6 Israel’s chief offenses are oppressing the poor and not being obedient to the god. 4:7-13 the god has punished Israel several ways and still there’s no obedience: prepare for judgment. V 13 “the Lord God of Hosts is His Name”. Amos 3 from https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/16175/jewish/Chapter-3.htm 1Hearken to this word which the Lord spoke about you, O children of Israel, about the entire family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying:

2Only you did I love above all the families of the earth; therefore, I will visit upon you all your iniquities.

3Will two walk together unless they agreed?

4Will a lion roar in the forest if he has no prey? Will a young lion let out a cry from his den unless he has taken something?

5Will a bird fall on a net upon the ground unless it has a snare? Will a net ascend from the ground and have taken nothing?

6Will a shophar be sounded in the city and the people not quake? Will there be evil in the city if the Lord has not done it?

7For the Lord God does nothing unless He has revealed His secret to His servants, the prophets.

8A lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken; who will not prophesy?

9Announce in the palaces in Ashdod and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say; Gather upon the mountains of Samaria and see great confusions within it and people being oppressed in its midst.

10And they did not know to do right, says the Lord, who store up violence and plunder in their palaces.

11Therefore, so said the Lord God: An adversary, even round about the land! And he will bring down from you your strength, and your palaces will be spoiled.

12So said the Lord: As the shepherd saves from the lion's mouth two legs or the cartilage of an ear, so will the children of Israel dwelling in Samaria be saved in the corner of a bed or in the corner of a couch.

13Hearken and warn the house of Jacob, says the Lord God, the God of the Hosts.

14For on the day I visit the transgressions of Israel upon them, I will visit upon the altars of Bethel, and the horns of the altar shall be cut off and shall fall to the earth.

15And I will smite the winter house with the summer house, and the ivory houses shall be lost, and great houses shall end, says the Lord.   Amos 4 1Hearken to this word, O cows of Bashan which are on Mount Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their lords, "Bring that we may drink." 2The Lord God has sworn by His holy [abode] that, behold, days are coming upon you, and you shall be borne on shields, and your posterity in fishing boats. 3And [through the] breaches they shall emerge, each woman straight before her, and you shall cast off the haughtiness, says the Lord. 4Come to Bethel and rebel, to Gilgal and multiply rebellion, and bring your sacrifices in the morning, every three days your tithes. 5And offer up a thanksgiving offering of leaven, and proclaim and publish the freewill offerings, for so you love, O children of Israel, says the Lord God. 6And also I have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places, but you have not returned to Me, says the Lord. 7And I also withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months before the harvest, and I will cause to rain on one city, and on one city I will not cause to rain; one field shall receive rain, and the field upon which no rain shall fall, shall wither. 8And two or three cities wandered into one city to drink water, but they shall not be sated, but you have not returned to Me, says the Lord. 9I smote you with blast and with yellowing; the increase of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees the shearing locust has devoured, but you have not returned to Me, says the Lord. 10I sent a pestilence upon you after the manner of Egypt; I slew your young men with the sword, with the captivity of your horses, and I caused the stench of your camps to rise, and in your nostrils, but you have not returned to Me, says the Lord. 11I have overthrown some of you like God's overthrow of Sodom and Gemorrah, and you were like a brand plucked from burning, but you have not returned to Me, says the Lord. 12Therefore, so will I do to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare yourself to meet your God, O Israel. 13For behold, He forms mountains and creates the wind, and declares to man what his speech is; He makes dawn into darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth; the Lord God of Hosts is His Name.