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I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and he said strike the door posts, that that the threshold makes shake, and break them on the heads of the mall. I was laying the last of them with swords. He who flees from them shall not get away, and he who escaped from them shall not be delivered. Though they did into hell, from their my hands shall take them though they clamp up into heaven, from there I will bring them down; and though they hide themselves on top of the, mount, mail from there I will search and take them to the though they hide from my site at the bottom of the sea from there I will command the surface and its shellThe vision in chapter 9 is different from the four visions in chapters 7 and eight. There is no conversation between God and the prophet. The time from talking is over; God simply asked. The situation has moved beyond Amos ability to intercede God time to act has come and he will not relinquish legal reasoning.

The background of this final vision is interesting to making his rule more secure job. He will arise what the Bible calls sin of Jehovah on and use of religion in the service of political use the system in place of Judah he counterfeited the holy days and preschool and the Temple rituals