| 1:1 |
The words of Amos who was among the herdmenherdsmen of Tekoa which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel two years before the earthquake |
| 1:2 |
And he said TheJehovah Lord will roar from Zion and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitationspastures of the shepherds shall mourn and the top of Carmel shall wither |
| 1:3 |
Thus saith theJehovah: Lord; For three transgressions of Damascus andyea for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: |
| 1:4 |
But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael whichand it shall devour the palaces of BenhadadBen hadad |
| 1:5 |
And I will break also the bar of Damascus and cut off the inhabitant from the plainvalley of Aven and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden:; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir saith the LordJehovah |
| 1:6 |
Thus saith theJehovah: Lord; For three transgressions of Gaza andyea for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivitypeople to deliver them up to Edom: |
| 1:7 |
But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza whichand it shall devour the palaces thereof: |
| 1:8 |
And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon; and I will turn minemy hand against Ekron:; and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish saith the Lord GodJehovah |
| 1:9 |
Thus saith theJehovah: Lord; For three transgressions of TyrusTyre andyea for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivitypeople to Edom and remembered not the brotherly covenant: |
| 1:10 |
But I will send a fire on the wall of TyrusTyre whichand it shall devour the palaces thereof |
| 1:11 |
Thus saith theJehovah: Lord; For three transgressions of Edom andyea for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword and did cast off all pity and his anger did tear perpetually and he kept his wrath for ever: |
| 1:12 |
But I will send a fire upon Teman whichand it shall devour the palaces of Bozrah |
| 1:13 |
Thus saith theJehovah: Lord; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon andyea for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead that they mightmay enlarge their border: |
| 1:14 |
But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah and it shall devour the palaces thereof with shouting in the day of battle with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:; |
| 1:15 |
Andand their king shall go into captivity he and his princes together saith the LordJehovah |
| 2:1 |
Thus saith theJehovah: Lord; For three transgressions of Moab andyea for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime: |
| 2:2 |
But I will send a fire upon Moab and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth:Kerioth; and Moab shall die with tumult with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet:; |
| 2:3 |
Andand I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof and will slay all the princes thereof with him saith the LordJehovah |
| 2:4 |
Thus saith theJehovah: Lord; For three transgressions of Judah andyea for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despisedrejected the law of theJehovah Lord and have not kept his commandmentsstatutes and their lies have caused them to err after the which their fathers havedid walked:walk |
| 2:6 |
Thus saith theJehovah: Lord; For three transgressions of Israel andyea for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have sold the righteous for silver and the poorneedy for a pair of shoes;— |
| 2:7 |
Thatthey that pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maidmaiden to profane my holy name: |
| 2:8 |
Andand they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes laidtaken toin pledge; byand everyin altarthe andhouse of their God they drink the wine of thesuch condemnedas inhave thebeen house of their godfined |
| 2:10 |
Also I brought you up fromout of the land of Egypt and led you forty years throughin the wilderness to possess the land of the Amorite |
| 2:11 |
And I raised up of your sons for prophets and of your young men for NazaritesNazirites Is it not even thus O ye children of Israel saith theJehovah Lord |
| 2:12 |
But ye gave the NazaritesNazirites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets saying Prophesy not |
| 2:13 |
Behold I amwill pressedpress under you in your place as a cart ispresseth pressed that is full of sheaves |
| 2:14 |
ThereforeAnd the flight shall perish from the swift; and the strong shall not strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself:; |
| 2:15 |
Neitherneither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself:; neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself; |
| 2:16 |
Andand he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day saith the LordJehovah |
| 3:1 |
Hear this word that theJehovah Lord hath spoken against you O children of Israel against the whole family which I brought up fromout of the land of Egypt saying |
| 3:2 |
You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punishvisit upon you for all your iniquities |
| 3:3 |
CanShall two walk together except they behave agreed |
| 3:5 |
Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth where no gin is set for him shall onea takesnare spring up a snare from the earthground and have taken nothing at all |
| 3:6 |
Shall athe trumpet be blown in thea city and the people not be afraid shall there be evil inbefall a city and theJehovah Lord hath not done it |
| 3:7 |
Surely the Lord GodJehovah will do nothing butexcept he revealethreveal his secret unto his servants the prophets |
| 3:8 |
The lion hath roared; who will not fear theThe Lord GodJehovah hath spoken; who can but prophesy |
| 3:9 |
Publish ye in the palaces at Ashdod and in the palaces in the land of Egypt and say Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria and behold thewhat great tumults inare thetherein midst thereof and thewhat oppressedoppressions in the midst thereof |
| 3:10 |
For they know not to do right saith theJehovah Lord who store up violence and robbery in their palaces |
| 3:11 |
Therefore thus saith the Lord God;Jehovah: An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee and thy palaces shall be spoiledplundered |
| 3:12 |
Thus saith theJehovah: Lord; As the shepherd takethrescueth out of the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be takenrescued out that dwellsit in Samaria in the corner of a bedcouch and inon Damascusthe insilken cushions of a couchbed |
| 3:13 |
Hear ye and testify inagainst the house of Jacob saith the Lord GodJehovah the God of hosts |
| 3:14 |
ThatFor in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel:Beth el; and the horns of the altar shall be cut off and fall to the ground |
| 3:15 |
And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish and the great houses shall have an end saith the LordJehovah |
| 4:1 |
Hear this word ye kine of Bashan that are in the mountain of Samaria whichthat oppress the poor whichthat crush the needy whichthat say tounto their masterslords Bring and let us drink |
| 4:2 |
The Lord GodJehovah hath sworn by his holiness that lo the days shall come upon you that hethey willshall take you away with hooks and your posterityresidue with fishhooksfish hooks |
| 4:3 |
And ye shall go out at the breaches every cowone atstraight that which is before her; and ye shall cast themyourselves into theHarmon palace saith the LordJehovah |
| 4:4 |
Come to BethelBeth el and transgress; atto Gilgal and multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning and your tithes afterevery three years:days; |
| 4:5 |
Andand offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving withof leaventhat which is leavened and proclaim freewill offerings and publish the free offeringsthem: for this likethpleaseth you O ye children of Israel saith the Lord GodJehovah |
| 4:6 |
And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities and want of bread in all your places:; yet have ye not returned unto me saith theJehovah Lord |
| 4:7 |
And I also I have withholden the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest:; and I caused it to rain upon one city and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon and the piece whereupon it rained not withered |
| 4:8 |
So two or three cities wandered unto one city to drink water; butand they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me saith theJehovah Lord |
| 4:9 |
I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: whenthe multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increasedhath the palmerwormpalmer worm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me saith theJehovah Lord |
| 4:10 |
I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword and have takencarried away your horses; and I have made the stinkstench of your campscamp to come up untoeven into your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me saith theJehovah Lord |
| 4:11 |
I have overthrown somecities ofamong you as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and ye were as a firebrandbrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me saith the LordJehovah |
| 4:12 |
Therefore thus will I do unto thee O Israel:; and because I will do this unto thee prepare to meet thy God O Israel |
| 4:13 |
For lo he that formeth the mountains and createth the wind and declareth unto man what is his thought; that maketh the morning darkness and treadeth upon the high places of the earth—Jehovah Thethe Lord The God of hosts is his name |
| 5:1 |
Hear ye this word which I take up againstfor you even a lamentation over you O house of Israel |
| 5:2 |
The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsakencast down upon her land; there is none to raise her up |
| 5:3 |
For thus saith the Lord God;Jehovah: The city that went outforth by a thousand shall leavehave ana hundred left and that which went forth bya an hundred shall leavehave ten left to the house of Israel |
| 5:4 |
For thus saith theJehovah Lord unto the house of Israel Seek ye me and ye shall live:; |
| 5:5 |
Butbut seek not BethelBeth el nor enter into Gilgal and pass not to BeershebaBeer sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity and BethelBeth el shall come to nought |
| 5:6 |
Seek theJehovah Lord and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph and it devour it and there be none to quench it in BethelBeth el |
| 5:7 |
Ye who turn judgmentjustice to wormwood and leavecast offdown righteousness into the earth |
| 5:8 |
Seekseek him that maketh the sevenPleiades stars and Orion and turneth the shadow of death into the morning and maketh the day dark with night:; that calleth for the waters of the sea and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: TheJehovah Lord is his name:; |
| 5:9 |
Thatthat strengthenethbringeth thesudden spoileddestruction againstupon the strong so that thedestruction spoiledcometh shallupon come against the fortress |
| 5:10 |
They hate him that rebukethreproveth in the gate and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly |
| 5:11 |
Forasmuch therefore as yourye treadingtrample is upon the poor and ye take exactions from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards but ye shall not drink the wine ofthereof them |
| 5:12 |
For I know yourhow manifold are your transgressions and yourhow mighty are your sins:—ye theythat afflict the just theythat take a bribe and theythat turn aside the poorneedy in the gate from their right |
| 5:13 |
Therefore thehe that is prudent shall keep silence in thatsuch a time; for it is an evil time |
| 5:14 |
Seek good and not evil that ye may live:; and so theJehovah Lord the God of hosts shallwill be with you as ye havesay spoken |
| 5:15 |
Hate the evil and love the good and establish judgmentjustice in the gate: it may be that Jehovah the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph |
| 5:16 |
Therefore thethus Lordsaith Jehovah the God of hosts the Lord: saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streetsthe broad ways; and they shall say in all the highwaysstreets Alas alas and they shall call the husbandman to mourning and such as are skilful ofin lamentation to wailing |
| 5:17 |
And in all vineyards shall be wailing:; for I will pass through the midst of thee saith the LordJehovah |
| 5:18 |
Woe unto you that desire the day of theJehovah LordWherefore towould whatye endhave is it for you the day of theJehovah LordIt is darkness and not light |
| 5:20 |
Shall not the day of theJehovah Lord be darkness and not light even very dark and no brightness in it |
| 5:21 |
I hate I despise your feastfeasts days and I will nottake smellno delight in your solemn assemblies |
| 5:22 |
ThoughYea though ye offer me your burnt offerings and yourmeal meat offerings I will not accept them:; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts |
| 5:24 |
But let judgmentjustice runroll down as waters and righteousness as a mighty stream |
| 5:25 |
HaveDid ye offeredbring unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years O house of Israel |
| 5:26 |
ButYea ye have borne the tabernacle of your Molochking and Chiunthe shrine of your images the star of your god which ye made to yourselves |
| 5:27 |
Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus saith theJehovah Lord whose name is Thethe God of hosts |
| 6:1 |
Woe to them that are at ease in Zion and trustto them that are secure in the mountain of Samaria whichthe arenotable namedmen of the chief of the nations to whom the house of Israel camecome |
| 6:2 |
Pass ye unto Calneh and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great:; then go down to Gath of the Philistines: beare they better than these kingdoms or is their border greater than your border |
| 6:3 |
Ye—ye that put far away the evil day and cause the seat of violence to come near; |
| 6:4 |
Thatthat lie upon beds of ivory and stretch themselves upon their couches and eat the lambs out of the flock and the calves out of the midst of the stall; |
| 6:5 |
Thatthat chantsing idle songs to the sound of the viol; andthat invent tofor themselves instruments of musickmusic like David; |
| 6:6 |
Thatthat drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with the chief ointments:oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph |
| 6:7 |
Therefore now shall they now go captive with the first that go captive; and the banquetrevelry of them that stretched themselves shall bepass removedaway |
| 6:8 |
The Lord GodJehovah hath sworn by himself saith theJehovah Lord the God of hosts: I abhor the excellency of Jacob and hate his palaces:; therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein |
| 6:10 |
And when a mans uncle shall take him up andeven he that burneth him to bring out the bones out of the house and shall say unto him that is byin the sidesinnermost parts of the house Is there yet any with thee and he shall say No; Thenthen shall he say Hold thy tongue:peace; for we may not make mention of the name of theJehovah Lord |
| 6:11 |
For behold theJehovah Lord commandeth and he will smite the great house shall be smitten with breaches and the little house with clefts |
| 6:12 |
Shall horses run upon the rock will one plow there with oxen forthat ye have turned judgmentjustice into gall and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:wormwood; |
| 6:13 |
Yeye whichthat rejoice in a thing of nought whichthat say Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength |
| 6:14 |
ButFor behold I will raise up against you a nation O house of Israel saith theJehovah Lord the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the enteringentrance in of HemathHamath unto the riverbrook of the wildernessArabah |
| 7:1 |
Thus hath the Lord GodJehovah shewedshowed unto me;: and behold he formed grasshopperslocusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and lo it was the latter growth after the kings mowings |
| 7:2 |
And it came to pass that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land then I said O Lord GodJehovah forgive I beseech thee: byhow whom shall Jacob arisestand for he is small |
| 7:3 |
TheJehovah Lord repented forconcerning this: It shall not be saith the LordJehovah |
| 7:4 |
Thus hath the Lord GodJehovah shewedshowed unto me: and behold the Lord GodJehovah called to contend by fire; and it devoured the great deep and didwould eathave eaten up athe partland |
| 7:5 |
Then said I O Lord GodJehovah cease I beseech thee: byhow whom shall Jacob arisestand for he is small |
| 7:6 |
TheJehovah Lord repented forconcerning this: This also shall not be saith the Lord GodJehovah |
| 7:7 |
Thus he shewedshowed me: and behold the Lord stood uponbeside a wall made by a plumblineplumb line with a plumblineplumb line in his hand |
| 7:8 |
And theJehovah Lord said unto me Amos what seest thou And I said A plumblineplumb line Then said the Lord Behold I will set a plumblineplumb line in the midst of my people Israel:; I will not again pass by them any more:; |
| 7:9 |
Andand the high places of Isaac shall be desolate and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword |
| 7:10 |
Then Amaziah the priest of BethelBeth el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel saying Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words |
| 7:11 |
For thus Amos saith Jeroboam shall die by the sword and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of theirhis ownland land |
| 7:12 |
Also Amaziah said unto Amos O thou seer go flee theethou away into the land of Judah and there eat bread and prophesy there: |
| 7:13 |
Butbut prophesy not again any more at Bethel:Beth el; for it is the kings chapelsanctuary and it is thea kingsroyal courthouse |
| 7:14 |
Then answered Amos and said to Amaziah I was no prophet neither was I a prophets son; but I was ana herdmanherdsman and a gathererdresser of sycomore fruittrees: |
| 7:15 |
Andand theJehovah Lord took me asfrom Ifollowing followed the flock and theJehovah Lord said unto me Go prophesy unto my people Israel |
| 7:16 |
Now therefore hear thou the word of the LordJehovah: Thou sayest Prophesy not against Israel and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac; |
| 7:17 |
Thereforetherefore thus saith theJehovah: Lord; Thy wife shall be ana harlot in the city and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou thyself shalt die in a polluted land: that is unclean and Israel shall surely gobe intoled captivityaway forthcaptive out of his land |
| 8:1 |
Thus hath the Lord GodJehovah shewedshowed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit |
| 8:2 |
And he said Amos what seest thou And I said A basket of summer fruit Then said theJehovah Lord unto me The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more |
| 8:3 |
And the songs of the temple shall be howlingswailings in that day saith the Lord GodJehovah: therethe dead bodies shall be many; dead bodies in every place; shall they shall cast them forth with silence |
| 8:4 |
Hear this O ye that would swallow up the needy evenand tocause make the poor of the land to fail |
| 8:5 |
Sayingsaying When will the new moon be gone that we may sell corngrain and the sabbath that we may set forth wheat making the ephah small and the shekel great and falsifyingdealing thefalsely with balances byof deceit; |
| 8:6 |
Thatthat we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea and sell the refuse of the wheat |
| 8:7 |
TheJehovah Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob Surely I will never forget any of their works |
| 8:8 |
Shall not the land tremble for this and every one mourn that dwelleth therein andyea it shall rise up wholly aslike athe floodRiver; and it shall be casttroubled out and drownedsink asagain bylike the floodRiver of Egypt |
| 8:9 |
And it shall come to pass in that day saith the Lord GodJehovah that I will cause the sun to go down at noon and I will darken the earth in the clear day: |
| 8:10 |
And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning offor an only son and the end thereof as a bitter day |
| 8:11 |
Behold the days come saith the Lord GodJehovah 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 theJehovah Lord: |
| 8:12 |
And they shall wander from sea to sea and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of theJehovah Lord and shall not find it |
| 8:13 |
In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst |
| 8:14 |
They that swear by the sin of Samaria and say ThyAs thy god O Dan liveth; and TheAs mannerthe way of BeershebaBeer sheba liveth; even they shall fall and never rise up again |
| 9:1 |
I saw the Lord standing uponbeside the altar: and he said Smite the lintelcapitals of the door that the poststhresholds may shake:; and cutbreak them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: hethere thatshall fleethnot one of them shall not flee away and hethere thatshall escapethnot one of them shallescape not be delivered |
| 9:2 |
Though they dig into hellSheol thence shall minemy hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven thence will I bring them down: |
| 9:3 |
And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea thence will I command the serpent and heit shall bite them: |
| 9:5 |
AndFor the Lord GodJehovah of hosts is he that toucheth the land and it shallmelteth melt and all that dwell therein shall mourn:; and it shall rise up wholly like athe flood;River and shall besink drownedagain aslike by the floodRiver of Egypt; |
| 9:6 |
Itit is he that buildeth his storieschambers in the heavenheavens and hath founded his troopvault inupon the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea and poureth them out upon the face of the earth:; TheJehovah Lord is his name |
| 9:7 |
Are ye not as the children of the Ethiopians unto me O children of Israel saith theJehovah Lord Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir |
| 9:8 |
Behold the eyes of the Lord GodJehovah are upon the sinful kingdom and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; savingsave that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob saith theJehovah Lord |
| 9:9 |
For lo I will command and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations like as corngrain is sifted in a sieve yet shall not the least grainkernel fall upon the earth |
| 9:10 |
All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword whichwho say The evil shall not overtake nor preventmeet us |
| 9:11 |
In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up hisits ruins and I will build it as in the days of old:; |
| 9:12 |
Thatthat they may possess the remnant of Edom and of all the heathennations whichthat are called by my name saith theJehovah Lord that doeth this |
| 9:13 |
Behold the days come saith theJehovah 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 |
| 9:14 |
And I will bring againback the captivity of my people of Israel and they shall build the waste cities and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens and eat the fruit of them |
| 9:15 |
And I will plant them upon their land and they shall no more be pulledplucked up out of their land which I have given them saith theJehovah Lord thy God |