Quotes from Amos

11 notable lines from Amos · c. 760 BCE

But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

Amos 5:24 (KJV)

Quotations follow the King James Version translation (Oxford University Press, 1611) — our recommended edition.

  1. Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

    Amos 4:12 (KJV)

  2. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:

    Amos 8:11 (KJV)

  3. Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

    Amos 3:3 (KJV)

  4. The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?

    Amos 3:8 (KJV)

  5. I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:

    Amos (to Amaziah), Amos 7:14 (KJV)

  6. Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.

    Amos 5:18 (KJV)

  7. Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

    Amos 5:15 (KJV)

  8. Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

    Amos 3:7 (KJV)

  9. The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.

    Amos 1:2 (KJV)

  10. Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.

    Amos 9:13 (KJV)