| 1:1 |
The words of Amos who was among the shepherds of Teko′aTekoa which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzzi′ahUzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jerobo′amJeroboam the son of Jo′ashJoash king of Israel two years before the earthquake |
| 1:3 |
Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Damascus and for four I will not revoke the punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron |
| 1:4 |
So I will send a fire upon the house of Haz′aelHazael and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben ha′dadhadad |
| 1:5 |
I will break the gate bar of Damascus and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven and him thatwho holds the scepter from Beth eden; and the people of Syria shall go into exile to Kir says the Lord |
| 1:6 |
Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Gaza and for four I will not revoke the punishment; because they carried into exile a whole people to deliver them up to Edom |
| 1:8 |
I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod and him thatwho holds the scepter from Ash′kelonAshkelon; I will turn my hand against Ekron; and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish says the Lord God |
| 1:9 |
Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Tyre and for four I will not revoke the punishment; because they delivered up a whole people to Edom and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood |
| 1:11 |
Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Edom and for four I will not revoke the punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity and his anger tore perpetually and he kept his wrath for everforever |
| 1:13 |
Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of the Ammonites and for four I will not revoke the punishment; because they have ripped upopen pregnant women with child in Gilead that they might enlarge their border |
| 1:14 |
So I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah and it shall devour her strongholds with shouting inon the day of battle with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind; |
| 2:1 |
Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Moab and for four I will not revoke the punishment; because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom |
| 2:2 |
So I will send a fire upon Moab and it shall devour the strongholds of Ker′iothKerioth and Moab shall die amid uproar amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet; |
| 2:3 |
I will cut off the ruler from its midst and will slaykill all its princes with him says the Lord |
| 2:4 |
Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Judah and for four I will not revoke the punishment; because they have rejected the law of the Lord and have not kept his statutes but their lies have led them astray those after which their fathers walked |
| 2:6 |
Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Israel and for four I will not revoke the punishment; because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of shoessandals— |
| 2:7 |
theythose thatwho trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and turn aside the way of the afflicted; a man and his father go in to the same maidengirl so that my holy name is profaned; |
| 2:8 |
they lay themselves down beside every altar uponon garments taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined |
| 2:9 |
Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them whose height was like the height of the cedars and who was as strong as the oaks; I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath |
| 2:10 |
Also it was I who brought you up out of the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness to possess the land of the Amorite |
| 2:11 |
And I raised up some of your sons for prophets and some of your young men for Nazirites Is it not indeed so O people of Israel saysdeclares the Lord |
| 2:16 |
and he who is stout of heart among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day saysdeclares the Lord |
| 3:1 |
Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you O people of Israel against the whole family whichthat I brought up out of the land of Egypt: |
| 3:3 |
Do two walk together unless they have madeagreed anto appointmentmeet |
| 3:6 |
Is a trumpet blown in a city and the people are not afraid Does evildisaster befallcome to a city unless the Lord has done it |
| 3:7 |
SurelyFor the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets |
| 3:9 |
Proclaim to the strongholds in AssyriaAshdod and to the strongholds in the land of Egypt and say Assemble yourselves uponon the mountains of Samar′iaSamaria and see the great tumults within her and the oppressionsoppressed in her midst |
| 3:10 |
They do not know how to do right saysdeclares the Lord those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds |
| 3:12 |
Thus says the Lord: As the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear so shall the people of Israel who dwell in Samar′iaSamaria be rescued with the corner of a couch and part of a bed |
| 3:13 |
Hear and testify against the house of Jacob saysdeclares the Lord God the God of hosts |
| 3:15 |
I will smitestrike the winter house along with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish and the great houses shall come to an end saysdeclares the Lord |
| 4:1 |
Hear this word you cows of Bashan who are inon the mountain of Samar′iaSamaria who oppress the poor who crush the needy who say to theiryour husbands Bring that we may drink |
| 4:3 |
And you shall go out through the breaches everyeach one straight before herahead; and you shall be cast forthout into Harmon saysdeclares the Lord |
| 4:5 |
offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened and proclaim freewill offerings publish them; for so you love to do O people of Israel saysdeclares the Lord God |
| 4:6 |
I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities and lack of bread in all your places yet you did not return to me saysdeclares the Lord |
| 4:7 |
And I also withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest; I would send rain uponon one city and send no rain uponon another city; one field would behave rainedrain upon and the field on which it did not rain witheredwould wither; |
| 4:8 |
so two or three cities wanderedwould wander to oneanother city to drink water and werewould not be satisfied; yet you did not return to me saysdeclares the Lord |
| 4:9 |
I smotestruck you with blight and mildew; Iyour laidmany waste your gardens and your vineyards; your fig trees and your olive trees the locust devoured; yet you did not return to me saysdeclares the Lord |
| 4:10 |
I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt; I slewkilled your young men with the sword; Iand carried away your horses; and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils; yet you did not return to me saysdeclares the Lord |
| 4:11 |
I overthrew some of you as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomor′rahGomorrah and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me saysdeclares the Lord |
| 4:13 |
For lobehold he who forms the mountains and creates the wind and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness and treads on the heights of the earth— the Lord the God of hosts is his name |
| 5:1 |
Hear this word whichthat I take up over you in lamentation O house of Israel: |
| 5:3 |
For thus says the Lord God: The city that went forthout a thousand shall have a hundred left and that which went forthout a hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel |
| 5:5 |
but do not seek Bethel and do not enter into Gilgal or cross over to Beer shebaBeersheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into exile and Bethel shall come to noughtnothing |
| 5:8 |
He who made the Pleiades and Orion and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out uponon the surface of the earth the Lord is his name; |
| 5:11 |
Therefore because you trample uponon the poor and takeyou fromexact himtaxes exactions of wheatgrain from him you have built houses of hewn stone but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards but you shall not drink their wine |
| 5:13 |
Therefore he who is prudent will keep silent in such a time; for it is an evil time |
| 5:16 |
Therefore thus says the Lord the God of hosts the Lord: In all the squares there shall be wailing; and in all the streets they shall say Alas alasAlas They shall call the farmers to mourning and to wailing those who are skilled in lamentation |
| 5:17 |
and in all vineyards there shall be wailing for I will pass through theyour midst of you says the Lord |
| 5:18 |
Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord Why would you have the day of the Lord It is darkness and not light; |
| 5:19 |
as if a man fled from a lion and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned with his hand against the wall and a serpent bit him |
| 5:22 |
Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and cerealgrain offerings I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattedfattened beastsanimals I will not look upon them |
| 5:24 |
But let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an everflowingever flowing stream |
| 5:25 |
Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness O house of Israel |
| 5:26 |
You shall take up SakkuthSikkuth your king and KaiwanKiyyun your star god —your images whichthat you made for yourselves; |
| 5:27 |
thereforeand I will takesend you into exile beyond Damascus says the Lord whose name is the God of hosts |
| 6:1 |
Woe to those who are at ease in Zion and to those who feel secure on the mountain of Samar′iaSamaria the notable men of the first of the nations to whom the house of Israel comecomes |
| 6:2 |
Pass over to Calneh and see; and thencefrom there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines Are theyyou better than these kingdoms Or is their territory greater than your territory |
| 6:3 |
O you who put far away the evil day of disaster and bring near the seat of violence |
| 6:4 |
Woe to those who lie uponon beds of ivory and stretch themselves uponout on their couches and eat lambs from the flock and calves from the midst of the stall; |
| 6:5 |
who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp and like David invent for themselves instruments of music; |
| 6:7 |
Therefore they shall now be the first of those towho go into exile and the revelry of those who stretch themselves out shall pass away |
| 6:8 |
The Lord God has sworn by himself saysdeclares the Lord the God of hosts: I abhor the pride of Jacob and hate his strongholds; and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it |
| 6:10 |
And when aones mansrelative kinsmanthe heone who burnsanoints him for burial shall take him up to bring the bones out of the house and shall say to him who is in the innermost parts of the house Is there still anyanyone one with you he shall say No; and he shall say HushSilence We must not mention the name of the Lord |
| 6:11 |
For behold the Lord commands and the great house shall be smittenstruck down into fragments and the little house into bits |
| 6:12 |
Do horses run uponon rocks Does one plow thethere sea with oxen But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood— |
| 6:13 |
you who rejoice in Lo debar who say Have we not by our own strength takencaptured Karnaim for ourselves |
| 6:14 |
For behold I will raise up against you a nation O house of Israel saysdeclares the Lord the God of hosts; and they shall oppress you from theLebo entrancehamath of Hamath to the Brook of the Arabah |
| 7:1 |
ThusThis is what the Lord God showed me: behold he was forming locusts inwhen the beginninglatter ofgrowth thewas shootingjust upbeginning ofto thesprout latter growth; and lobehold it was the latter growth after the kings mowings |
| 7:2 |
When they had finished eating the grass of the land I said O Lord God please forgive I beseech thee How can Jacob stand He is so small |
| 7:3 |
The Lord repentedrelented concerning this;: It shall not be said the Lord |
| 7:4 |
ThusThis is what the Lord God showed me: behold the Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land |
| 7:5 |
Then I said O Lord God please cease I beseech thee How can Jacob stand He is so small |
| 7:6 |
The Lord repentedrelented concerning this;: This also shall not be said the Lord God |
| 7:7 |
HeThis is what he showed me: behold the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line with a plumb line in his hand |
| 7:9 |
the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste and I will rise against the house of Jerobo′amJeroboam with the sword |
| 7:10 |
Then Amazi′ahAmaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jerobo′amJeroboam king of Israel saying Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel; theThe land is not able to bear all his words |
| 7:11 |
For thus Amos has said Jerobo′amJeroboam shall die by the sword and Israel must go into exile away from his land |
| 7:12 |
And Amazi′ahAmaziah said to Amos O seer go flee away to the land of Judah and eat bread there and prophesy there; |
| 7:14 |
Then Amos answered Amazi′ahand said to Amaziah I amwas no prophet nor a prophets son; but I amwas a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore trees figs |
| 7:15 |
andBut the Lord took me from following the flock and the Lord said to me Go prophesy to my people Israel |
| 7:17 |
Therefore thus says the Lord: Your wife shall be a harlotprostitute in the city and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword and your land shall be parceleddivided outup bywith a measuring line; you yourself shall die in an unclean land and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land |
| 8:1 |
ThusThis is what the Lord God showed me: behold a basket of summer fruit |
| 8:3 |
The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day saysdeclares the Lord God; theSo many dead bodies shallThey beare many;thrown ineverywhere every place they shall be cast out in silenceSilence |
| 8:4 |
Hear this you who trample uponon the needy and bring the poor of the land to an end |
| 8:5 |
saying When will the new moon be over that we may sell grain And the sabbathSabbath that we may offer wheat for sale that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances |
| 8:6 |
that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and sell the refusechaff of the wheat |
| 8:8 |
Shall not the land tremble on this account and everyeveryone one mourn who dwells in it and all of it rise like the Nile and be tossed about and sink again like the Nile of Egypt |
| 8:9 |
And on that day saysdeclares the Lord God I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight |
| 8:10 |
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth uponon allevery loinswaist and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day |
| 8:11 |
Behold the days are coming saysdeclares the Lord God when I will send a famine on the land;— not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water but of hearing the words of the Lord |
| 8:13 |
In that day the fairlovely virgins and the young men shall faint for thirst |
| 8:14 |
Those who swear by Ash′imahthe Guilt of Samar′iaSamaria and say As thyyour god lives O Dan and As the wayWay of BeerBeersheba sheba lives they shall fall and never rise again |
| 9:1 |
I saw the Lord standing beside the altar and he said: SmiteStrike the capitals until the thresholds shake and shatter them on the heads of all the people; and whatthose who are left of them I will slaykill with the sword; not one of them shall flee away; not one of them shall escape |
| 9:2 |
ThoughIf they dig into Sheol from there shall my hand take them; thoughif they climb up to heaven from there I will bring them down |
| 9:3 |
ThoughIf they hide themselves on the top of Carmel from there I will search them out and take them; and thoughif they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea there I will command the serpent and it shall bite them |
| 9:4 |
And thoughif they go into captivity before their enemies there I will command the sword and it shall slaykill them; and I will setfix my eyes upon them for evil and not for good |
| 9:7 |
Are you not like the EthiopiansCushites to me O people of Israel saysdeclares the Lord Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir |
| 9:8 |
Behold the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob saysdeclares the Lord |
| 9:9 |
For lobehold I will command and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve but no pebble shall fall uponto the earth |
| 9:10 |
All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword who say EvilDisaster shall not overtake or meet us |
| 9:11 |
In that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen and repair its breaches and raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old; |
| 9:12 |
that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name saysdeclares the Lord who does this |
| 9:13 |
Behold the days are coming saysdeclares the Lord when the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; the mountains shall drip sweet wine and all the hills shall flow with it |
| 9:15 |
I will plant them uponon their land and they shall never again be pluckeduprooted up out of the land whichthat I have given them says the Lord your God |