<p class="poetry">A club is counted<n id="1" /> as a piece of straw;p> <p class="poetry">it laughs at the rattling of the lance.p>

After the earthquake, there was a fire, but the <sc>Lordsc> was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a soft whisper.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">In excitement and impatience it consumes the ground;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">it cannot stand still<n id="2" /> when the trumpet is blown.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then a wind lifted me up<n id="1" /> and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me as the glory of the <sc>Lordsc> rose from its place,<n id="2" />

&#8220;Son of man, eat your bread with trembling,<n id="1" /> and drink your water with anxious shaking.

<t /><p class="poetry">The chariot drivers will crack their whips;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the chariot wheels will shake the ground;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the chariot horses<n id="3" /> will gallop;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">the war chariots<n id="5" /> will bolt forward!<n id="6" />p>

The <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Go out and stand on the mountain before the <sc>Lordsc>. Look, the <sc>Lordsc> is ready to pass by.&#8221;p> <p class="bodytext">A very powerful wind went before the <sc>Lordsc>, digging into the mountain and causing landslides,<n id="2" /> but the <sc>Lordsc> was not in the wind. After the windstorm there was an earthquake, but the <sc>Lordsc> was not in the earthquake.

<p class="poetry">Indeed every boot that marches and shakes the earth<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and every garment dragged through bloodp> <p class="poetry">is used as fuel for the fire.p>

<p class="poetry">Judgment will come from the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">accompanied by thunder, earthquake, and a loud noise,p> <p class="poetry">by a strong gale, a windstorm, and a consuming flame of fire.p>

<p class="poetry">Listen! News is coming even now.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The rumble of a great army is heard approaching<n id="2" /> from a land in the north.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">It is coming to turn the towns of Judah into rubble,p> <p class="poetry">places where only jackals live.p>

<p class="poetry">Fathers will hear the hoofbeats of the enemies&#8217; horses,p> <p class="poetry">the clatter of their chariots and the rumbling of their wheels.p> <p class="poetry">They will not turn back to save their childrenp> <p class="poetry">because they will be paralyzed with fear.<n id="1" />p>

and the sound of the living beings&#8217; wings brushing against each other, and the sound of the wheels alongside them, a great rumbling sound.

<p class="bodytext">So I prophesied as I was commanded. There was a sound when I prophesied &#8211; I heard<n id="1" /> a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to bone.

In my zeal, in the fire of my fury,<n id="1" /> I declare that on that day there will be a great earthquake<n id="2" /> in the land of Israel.

<t /><p class="bodytext">The following is a record of what Amos prophesied.<n id="1" /> He<n id="2" /> was one of the herdsmen from Tekoa. These prophecies about Israel were revealed to him<n id="3" /> during the time of<n id="4" /> King Uzziah of Judah and<n id="5" /> King Jeroboam son of Joash of Israel, two years before the earthquake.<n id="6" />p>

Then you will escape<n id="1" /> through my mountain valley, for the mountains will extend to Azal.<n id="2" /> Indeed, you will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of King Uzziah<n id="3" /> of Judah. Then the <sc>Lordsc> my God will come with all his holy ones with him.