| 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 Lordwill shall roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither. |
| 1:3 |
Thus saith the LordJehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:. |
| 1:4 |
butBut I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben hadad. |
| 1:5 |
And I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley 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 the LordJehovah: For three transgressions of Gaza, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole people, to deliver them up to Edom:. |
| 1:7 |
But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, and 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 the LordJehovah: For three transgressions of Tyre, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole people to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:. |
| 1:10 |
butBut I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. |
| 1:11 |
Thus saith the LordJehovah: For three transgressions of Edom, yea, 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 |
butBut I will send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the palaces of Bozrah. |
| 1:13 |
Thus saith the LordJehovah: For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yea, 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 RabbathRabbah, 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 |
and their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the LordJehovah. |
| 2:1 |
Thus saith the LordJehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:. |
| 2:2 |
butBut I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:; |
| 2:3 |
and 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 the LordJehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have rejected the law of the LordJehovah, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, after the which their fathers did walk:. |
| 2:5 |
butBut I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. |
| 2:6 |
Thus saith the LordJehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes:— |
| 2:7 |
they 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 unto the same maidmaiden, to profane my holy name: |
| 2:8 |
and they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge,; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined. |
| 2:11 |
And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LordJehovah. |
| 2:12 |
But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink;, and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not. |
| 2:14 |
And flight shall perish from the swift,; and the strong shall not strengthen his force,; neither shall the mighty deliver himself:; |
| 2:15 |
neither 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 |
and 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 out of the land of Egypt, saying, |
| 3:6 |
Shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be afraid? shaltshall evil befall a city, and theJehovah Lord hath not done it? |
| 3:7 |
Surely the Lord GODwillJehovah 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 GODhathJehovah hath spoken,; who can but prophesy? |
| 3:10 |
For they know not to do right, saith the LordJehovah, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. |
| 3:11 |
Therefore thus saith the Lord GODJehovah: 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 the LordJehovah: As the shepherd rescueth out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear;, so shall the children of Israel be rescued that sit in Samaria in the corner of a couch, and on the silken cushions of a bed. |
| 3:13 |
Hear ye, and testify against the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GODJehovah, the God of hosts. |
| 3:14 |
For in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him, I will also visit the altars of 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 unto their Lords, Bring, and let us drink. |
| 4:2 |
The Lord GODhathJehovah hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that they shall take you away with hooks, and your residue with fish hooks. |
| 4:3 |
And ye shall go out at the breaches, every one straight before her; and ye shall cast yourselves into Harmon, saith the LordJehovah. |
| 4:5 |
and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill offerings and publish them: 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 the LordJehovah. |
| 4:7 |
And I also 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, and were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LordJehovah. |
| 4:9 |
I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees hath the palmerwormpalmer worm devoured: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LordJehovah. |
| 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 carried away your horses; and I have made the stinkstench of your camp to come up even into your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LordJehovah. |
| 4:11 |
I have overthrown somecities among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand 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; the Lord—Jehovah, the God of hosts, is his name. |
| 5:3 |
For thus saith the Lord GODJehovah: The city that went forth a thousand shall have ana hundred left, and that which went forth ana hundred shall have 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:; |
| 5:6 |
Seek the LordJehovah, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be none to quench it in Beth el:. |
| 5:7 |
Ye who turn judgementjustice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth;, |
| 5:8 |
seek him that maketh the Pleiades 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; |
| 5:12 |
For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins; —ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate from their right. |
| 5:14 |
Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live:; and so the LordJehovah, the God of hosts, shallwill be with you, as ye say. |
| 5:15 |
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgementjustice in the gate: it may be that the LordJehovah, the God of hosts, will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. |
| 5:16 |
Therefore thus saith the LordJehovah, the God of hosts, the Lord: Wailing shall be in all the broad ways; and they shall say in all the streets, 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 the LordJehovah! whereforeWherefore would ye have the day of the LordJehovah? itIt 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? |
| 5:22 |
Yea, though ye offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them:; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. |
| 5:24 |
But let judgementjustice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. |
| 5:26 |
Yea, ye have borne Siccuththe tabernacle of your king 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 the LordJehovah, whose name is the God of hosts. |
| 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; |
| 6:5 |
that sing idle songs to the sound of the viol; that deviseinvent for themselves instruments of music, like David; |
| 6:6 |
that drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointmentsoils; 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 revelry of them that stretched themselves shall pass away. |
| 6:8 |
The Lord GODhathJehovah hath sworn by himself, saith the LordJehovah, 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, even he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is in the innermost parts of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No; then shall he say, Hold thy peace; for we may not make mention of the name of the LordJehovah. |
| 6:11 |
For, behold, theJehovah Lord commandeth, and 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? that ye have turned judgementjustice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood:; |
| 6:13 |
ye whichthat rejoice in a thing of nought, whichthat say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength? |
| 6:14 |
For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LordJehovah, the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the enteringentrance in of Hamath unto the brook of the Arabah. |
| 7:1 |
Thus the Lord GODshewedJehovah showed me: and, behold, he formed locusts 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 made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GODJehovah, forgive, I beseech thee: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small. |
| 7:3 |
TheJehovah Lord repented concerning this: It shall not be, saith the LordJehovah. |
| 7:4 |
Thus the Lord GODshewedJehovah showed me: and, behold, the Lord GODcalledJehovah called to contend by fire; and it devoured the great deep, and would have eaten up the land. |
| 7:5 |
Then said I, O Lord GODJehovah, cease, I beseech thee: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small. |
| 7:6 |
TheJehovah Lord repented concerning this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GODJehovah. |
| 7:7 |
Thus he shewedshowed me: and, behold, the Lord stood beside 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:; |
| 7:12 |
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 |
but prophesy not again any more at Beth el:; for it is the kings sanctuary, and it is a royal house. |
| 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 dresser of sycomore trees: |
| 7:15 |
and theJehovah Lord took me from following 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 |
therefore thus saith the LordJehovah: 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 land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land. |
| 8:1 |
Thus the Lord GODshewedJehovah showed 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 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: the dead bodies shall be many; in every place shall they cast them forth with silence. |
| 8:5 |
saying, 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 dealing falsely with balances of deceit; |
| 8:6 |
that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, 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. |
| 8:9 |
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 for 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 the LordJehovah. |
| 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 the LordJehovah, and shall not find it. |
| 8:14 |
They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, As thy Godgod, O Dan, liveth; and, As the way of Beer sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again. |
| 9:1 |
I SAWsaw the Lord standing beside the altar: and he said, Smite the chapiterscapitals, that the thresholds may shake:; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape. |
| 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 |
For the Lord, theJehovah GODofof hosts, is he that toucheth the land and it melteth, and all that dwell therein shall mourn; and it shall rise up wholly like the River;, and shall sink again, like the River of Egypt; |
| 9:6 |
it is he that buildeth his chambers in the heavenheavens, and hath founded his vault upon 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 the LordJehovah. 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 GODareJehovah 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 the LordJehovah. |
| 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 |
that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations, whichthat are called by my name, saith theJehovah Lord that doeth this. |
| 9:13 |
Behold, the days come, saith the LordJehovah, 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 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 plucked up out of their land which I have given them, saith theJehovah Lord thy God. |