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1Amos announces YHWH’s judgment against surrounding nations for atrocities, broken bonds, and violence pursued without pity.2Amos brings God’s judgment from neighboring nations to Israel, whose oppression and rejection of his gifts leave it without escape.3Amos declares that God’s choice of Israel makes its oppression answerable to judgment, despite its wealth and religious privileges.4Amos exposes oppression and boastful worship, recounts Israel’s refusal to return, and announces an encounter with the God who rules creation.5Amos confronts Israel's confidence in worship with God's demand for justice and his warning of approaching judgment.6Amos exposes the violence beneath Israel’s comfortable confidence and announces God’s judgment on its pride, indifference, and corrupted justice.7Amos pleads for Israel’s survival, then faces a priest who tries to silence the judgment God has sent him to announce.8Amos announces God’s judgment on Israel’s exploitation of the poor, culminating in a desperate, fruitless search for his word.
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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).