| 1:1 |
The words of Amos, who was one of the sheep breeders from Tekoa — what he saw regarding Israel in the days of King Uzziah, king of Judah, and Jeroboam son of Jehoash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. |
| 1:2 |
He said: The Lord roars from Zion and raisesmakes Hishis voice heard from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the summit of Carmel withers. |
| 1:8 |
I will cut off the ruler from Ashdod, and the one who wields the scepter from Ashkelon. I will also turn Mymy hand against Ekron, and the remainder of the Philistines will perish. The Lord God has spoken. |
| 1:11 |
The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Edom for three crimes, even four, because he pursued his brother with the sword. He stifled his compassion, his anger tore at themhim continually, and he harbored his rage incessantly. |
| 2:4 |
The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Judah for three crimes, even four, because they have rejected the instruction of the Lord and have not kept Hishis statutes. The lies that their ancestors followed have led them astray. |
| 2:7 |
They trample the heads of the poor on the dust of the ground and blockobstruct the path of the needy. A man and his father have sexual relations with the same girl, profaning Mymy holy name. |
| 2:8 |
They stretch out beside every altar on garments taken as collateral, and in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines. |
| 2:10 |
And I brought you from the land of Egypt and led you 40forty years in the wilderness in order to possess the land of the Amorite. |
| 2:13 |
Look, I am about to crush you in your place as a wagon crushes when full of sheaves crushes grain. |
| 2:14 |
Escape will fail the swift, the strong one will not prevailmaintain by his strength, and the bravewarrior will not save his life. |
| 2:16 |
Even the most courageous of the warriors will flee naked on that day — this is the Lord’s declaration. |
| 3:7 |
Indeed, the Lord God does nothing without revealing Hishis counsel to Hishis servants the prophets. |
| 3:9 |
Proclaim on the citadels in Ashdod and on the citadels in the land of Egypt: Assemble on the mountains of Samaria, and see the great turmoil in the city and the acts of oppression within it. |
| 3:10 |
The people are incapable of doing right — this is the Lord’s declaration — those who store up violence and destruction in their citadels. |
| 3:13 |
Listen and testify against the house of Jacob — this is the declaration of the Lord God, the God of HostsArmies. |
| 4:2 |
The Lord God has sworn by Hishis holiness: Look, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, every last one of you with fishhooks. |
| 4:5 |
Offer leavened bread as a thankthanksgiving offeringsacrifice, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings, for that is what you Israelites love to do! This is the declaration of the Lord’s declarationGod. |
| 4:6 |
I gave you absolutely nothing to eat in all your cities, a shortage of food in all your communities, yet you did not return to Meme. This is the Lord’s declaration. |
| 4:8 |
Two or three cities staggered to another city to drink water but were not satisfied, yet you did not return to Meme. This is the Lord’s declaration. |
| 4:9 |
I struck you with blight and mildew; the locust devoured your many gardens and vineyards, your fig trees and olive trees, yet you did not return to Meme. This is the Lord’s declaration. |
| 4:10 |
I sent plagues like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I caused the stench of your camp to fill your nostrils, yet you did not return to Meme. This is the Lord’s declaration. |
| 4:11 |
I overthrew some of you as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick snatched from a fire, yet you did not return to Meme — thisThis is the Lord’s declaration. |
| 4:13 |
He is here: the Oneone who forms the mountains, creates the wind, and reveals Hishis thoughts to man, the Oneone who makes the dawn out of darkness and strides on the heights of the earth. YahwehThe Lord, the God of HostsArmies, is Hishis name. |
| 5:2 |
She has fallen; Virgin Israel will never rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up. |
| 5:4 |
For the Lord says to the house of Israel: Seek Meme and live! |
| 5:6 |
Seek Yahwehthe Lord and live, or Hehe will spread like fire throughout the house of Joseph; it will consume everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it. |
| 5:7 |
Those who turn justice into wormwood also throw righteousness to the ground. |
| 5:8 |
The Oneone who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waterswater of the sea and pours themit out over the facesurface of the earth — Yahwehthe Lord is Hishis name. |
| 5:9 |
He brings destruction on the strong, and it falls on the strongholdfortress. |
| 5:10 |
They hate the one who convicts the guilty at the city gate, and they despise the one who speaks with integrity. |
| 5:12 |
For I know your crimes are many and your sins innumerable. They oppress the righteous, take a bribe, and deprive the poor of justice at the city gates. |
| 5:13 |
Therefore, thethose wisewho personhave insight will keep silent at such a time, for the days are evil. |
| 5:14 |
SeekPursue good and not evil so that you may live, and the Lord, the God of HostsArmies, will be with you, as you have claimed. |
| 5:15 |
Hate evil and love good; establish justice inat the city gate. Perhaps the Lord, the God of HostsArmies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph. |
| 5:16 |
Therefore Yahwehthe Lord, the God of HostsArmies, the Lord, says: There will be wailing in all the public squares; they will cry out in anguish in all the streets. The farmer will be called on to mourn, and professional mourners to wail. |
| 5:18 |
Woe to you who long for the Dayday of the Lord! What will the Dayday of the Lord be for you? It will be darkness and not light. |
| 5:20 |
Won’t the Dayday of the Lord be darkness rather than light, even gloom without any brightness in it? |
| 5:21 |
I hate, I despise, your feasts! I can’t stand the stench of your solemn assemblies. |
| 5:22 |
Even if you offer Meme your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; I will have no regard for your fellowship offerings of fattened cattle. |
| 5:23 |
Take away from Meme the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. |
| 5:25 |
“House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to Meme during the 40forty years in the wilderness? |
| 5:27 |
So I will send you into exile beyond Damascus.” YahwehThe Lord, the God of HostsArmies, is Hishis name. He has spoken. |
| 6:1 |
Woe to those who are at ease in Zion and to those who feel secure on the hill of Samaria — the notable people in this first of the nations, those the house of Israel comes to. |
| 6:8 |
The Lord God has sworn by Himselfhimself — this is the declaration of Yahwehthe Lord, the God of HostsArmies: I loathe Jacob’s pride and hate his citadels, so I will hand over the city and everything in it. |
| 6:9 |
And if there are 10ten men left in one house, they will die. |
| 6:10 |
A close relative and burner will remove his corpse from the house. He will call to someone in the inner recesses of the house, “Any more with you?” That person will reply, “None.” Then he will say, “Silence, because Yahwehthe Lord’s name must not be invoked.” |
| 6:12 |
Do horses gallop on the cliffs;? doesDoes anyone plow there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood — |
| 6:14 |
But look, I am raising up a nation against you, house of Israel — this is the declaration of the Lord, the God of HostsArmies — and they will oppress you from the entrance of Hamath to the Brook of the Arabah. |
| 7:1 |
The Lord God showed me this: He was forming a swarm of locusts at the time the spring crop first began to sprout — after the cutting of the king’s hay. |
| 7:3 |
The Lord relented concerning this. “It will not happen,” Hehe said. |
| 7:7 |
He showed me this: The Lord was standing there by a vertical wall with a plumb line in Hishis hand. |
| 7:8 |
The Lord asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” I replied, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “I am setting a plumb line among Mymy people Israel; I will no longer spare them: |
| 7:10 |
Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to King Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you right here in the house of Israel. The land cannot endure all his words, |
| 7:15 |
But the Lord took me from following the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to Mymy people Israel.’” |
| 8:1 |
The Lord God showed me this: Aa basket of summer fruit. |
| 8:2 |
He asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” I replied, “A basket of summer fruit.” The Lord said to me, “The end has come for Mymy people Israel; I will no longer spare them. |
| 8:3 |
In that day the temple songs will become wailing”—” — this is the Lord God’s declaration. “Many dead bodies, thrown everywhere! Silence!” |
| 8:9 |
And in that day — this is the declaration of the Lord God — I will make the sun go down at noon; I will darken the land in the daytime. |
| 8:11 |
HearLook, this!the The days are coming — this is the declaration of the Lord God — when I will send a famine through the land: not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. |
| 8:12 |
People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the Lord, but they will not find it. |
| 8:14 |
Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, “As your god lives, Dan,” or, “As the way of Beer-sheba lives”—” — they will fall, never to rise again. |
| 9:1 |
I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and Hehe said: Strike the capitals of the pillars so that the thresholds shake; knock them down on the heads of all the people. Then I will kill the rest of them with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape. |
| 9:2 |
If they dig down to Sheol, from there Mymy hand will take them; if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down. |
| 9:3 |
If they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will track them down and seize them; if they conceal themselves from Mymy sight on the sea floor, from there I will command the sea serpent to bite them. |
| 9:4 |
And if they are driven by their enemies into captivity, from there I will command the sword to kill them. I will fixkeep Mymy eyeseye on them for harm and not for good. |
| 9:5 |
The Lord, the God of HostsArmies — Hehe touches the earth; it melts, and all who dwell in it mourn; all of it rises like the Nile and subsides like the Nile of Egypt. |
| 9:6 |
He builds Hishis upper chambers in the heavens and lays the foundation of Hishis vault on the earth. He summons the waterswater of the sea and pours themit out onover the facesurface of the earth. YahwehThe Lord is Hishis name. |
| 9:7 |
Israelites, are you not like the Cushites to Meme? This is the Lord’s declaration. Didn’t I bring Israel from the land of Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Arameans from Kir? |
| 9:8 |
Look, the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroyobliterate it from the face of the earth. However, I will not totally destroy the house of Jacob — this is the Lord’s declaration — |
| 9:10 |
All the sinners among Mymy people who say:, “Disaster will never overtake or confront us,” will die by the sword. |
| 9:11 |
In that day I will restore the fallen boothshelter of David: I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old, |
| 9:12 |
so that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that arebear calledmy byname My name— this is the declaration of the Lord’s; declaration—he He will do this. |
| 9:13 |
HearLook, this!the The days are coming — this is the Lord’s declaration — when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the one who treads grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, and all the hills will flow with it. |
| 9:14 |
I will restore the fortunes of Mymy people Israel. They will rebuild and occupy ruined cities, plant vineyards and drink their wine, make gardens and eat their produce. |
| 9:15 |
I will plant them on their land, and they will never again be uprooted from the land I have given them. YahwehThe Lord your God has spoken. |