Holy Scripture

Amos 3:12

A church father on this verse
“If, then, any hope of salvation is still left to you, if any slight remembrance of God, if any desire for future rewards, if any fear of the punishments reserved for the unrepentant come back quickly to sobriety; raise your eyes to the heavens; return to your senses; cease your wickedness; shake off the drunkenness th…”
Basil of Caesarea, 4th c. — LETTER 44, TO A FALLEN MONK

Source: Septuagint

Original

12Thus saith the Lord; As when a shepherd rescues from the mouth of a lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so shall be drawn forth the children of Israel who dwell in Samaria in the presence of a foreign tribe, and in Damascus.

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10And she knew not what things would come against her, saith the Lord, even those that store up wrong and misery in their countries.

11Therefore thus saith the Lord God; O Tyre, thy land shall be made desolate round about thee; and he shall bring down thy strength out of thee, and thy countries shall be spoiled.

— Amos 3:12 —

13Hear, O ye priests, and testify to the house of Jacob, saith the Lord God Almighty.

14For in the day wherein I shall take vengeance of the sins of Israel upon him, I will also take vengeance on the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be broken down, and they shall fall upon the ground.

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