1 The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen 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.
2 And he said, will roar from Zion, and utter voice from Jerusalem;
and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall
wither.
3 Thus saith ; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will
not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead
with threshing instruments of iron:
4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the
palaces of Benhadad.
5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the
plain 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 .
6 Thus saith ; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not
turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the
whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:
7 But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces
thereof:
8 And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the
sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant
of the Philistines shall perish, saith .
9 Thus saith ; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will
not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the
whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:
10 But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces
thereof.
11 Thus saith ; For three transgressions of Edom, and 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:
12 But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.
13 Thus saith ; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and
for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they
have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their
border:
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:
15 And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith
.
~ Amos 2 ~
1 Thus saith ; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not
turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the
king of Edom into lime:
2 But 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:
3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the
princes thereof with him, saith .
4 Thus saith ; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will
not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the
law of , and have not kept commandments, and their lies caused them
to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of
Jerusalem.
6 Thus saith ; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will
not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous
for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
7 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
maid, to profane holy name:
8 And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every
altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their
.
9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the
height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed
his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
10 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through
the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for
Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith YAHUVEH.
12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying,
Prophesy not.
13 Behold, I AM pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of
sheaves.
14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not
strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
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.
16 And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in
that day, saith YAHUVEH.
~ Amos 3 ~
1 Hear this word that YAHUVEH hath spoken against you, O children of Israel,
against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,
2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will
punish you for all your iniquities.
3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry
out of his den, if he have taken nothing?
5 Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him?
shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at
all?
6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall
there be evil in a city, and YAHUVEH hath not done it?
7 Surely YAHUVEH will do nothing, but HE revealeth HIS secret unto HIS servants
the prophets.
8 The lion hath roared, who will not fear? YAHUVEH hath spoken, who can but
prophesy?
9 Publish 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 the great
tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.
10 For they know not to do right, saith YAHUVEH, who store up violence and
robbery in their palaces.
11 Therefore thus saith YAHUVEH; An adversary there shall be even round
about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces
shall be spoiled.
12 Thus saith YAHUVEH; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two
legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that
dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.
13 Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith YAHUVEH, the ELOHIM of
hosts,
14 That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I
will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut
off, and fall to the ground.
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 YAHUVEH.
~ Amos 4 ~
1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of
Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their
masters, Bring, and let us drink.
2 YAHUVEH hath sworn by HIS holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you,
that HE will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is
before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith YAHUVEH.
4 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring
your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:
5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and
publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith
YAHUVEH.
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 YAHUVEH.
7 And 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.
8 So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but
they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto ME, saith YAHUVEH.
9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your
vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm
devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto ME, saith YAHUVEH.
10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young
men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have
made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not
returned unto me, saith YAHUVEH.
11 I have overthrown some of you, as ELOHIM overthrew Sodom and
Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not
returned unto ME, saith YAHUVEH.
12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do
this unto thee, prepare to meet thy ELOHIM, O Israel.
13 For, lo, HE that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth
unto man what isHIS thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and
treadeth upon the high places of the earth, YAHUVEH, The ELOHIM of hosts, isHIS name.
~ Amos 5 ~
1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O
house of Israel.
2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon
her land; there is none to raise her up.
3 For thus saith YAHUVEH; The city that went out by a thousand shall
leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave
ten, to the house of Israel.
4 For thus saith YAHUVEH unto the house of Israel, Seek ye ME, and ye shall
live:
5 But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for
Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.
6 Seek YAHUVEH, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of
Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it
in Bethel.
7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
8 Seek HIM that maketh the seven 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: YAHUVEHisHIS name:
9 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall
come against the fortress.
10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh
uprightly.
11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take
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 wine
of them.
12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict
the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from
their right.
13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an
evil time.
14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so YAHUVEH, the ELOHIM of
hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may
be that YAHUVEH of HOSTS will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
16 Therefore YAHUVEH, the ELOHIM of hosts, YAHUVEH, saith thus; Wailing shall
be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and
they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of
lamentation to wailing.
17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee,
saith YAHUVEH.
18 Woe unto you that desire the day of YAHUVEH! to what end is it for
you? the day of YAHUVEHis darkness, and not light.
19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house,
and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
20 Shall not the day of YAHUVEHbe darkness, and not light?
even very dark, and no brightness in it?
21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn
assemblies.
22 Though ye offer ME burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept
them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
23 Take thou away from ME the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody
of thy viols.
24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
25 Have ye offered unto ME sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty
years, O house of Israel?
26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the
star of your ELOHIM, which ye made to yourselves.
27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith
YAHUVEH, whose name is The ELOHIM of hosts.
~ Amos 6 ~
1 Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of
Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of
Israel came!
2 Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then
go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms?
or their border greater than your border?
3 Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come
near;
4 That 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;
5 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves
instruments of musick, like David;
6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but
they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
7 Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the
banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
8 YAHUVEH hath sworn by HIMSELF, saith YAHUVEH the ELOHIM of hosts, I abhor the
excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city
with all that is therein.
9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they
shall die.
10 And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out
the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides
of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say,
No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name
of YAHUVEH.
11 For, behold, YAHUVEH commandeth, and HE will smite the great house with
breaches, and the little house with clefts.
12 Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with
oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into
hemlock:
13 Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us
horns by our own strength?
14 But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith
YAHUVEH the ELOHIM of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of
Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.
~ Amos 7 ~
1 Thus hath YAHUVEH shewed unto me; and, behold, HE formed grasshoppers in the
beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the
latter growth after the king's mowings.
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 ELOHIM, forgive, I beseech THEE: by whom
shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
3 YAHUVEH repented for this: It shall not be, saith YAHUVEH.
4 Thus hath YAHUVEH shewed unto me: and, behold, YAHUVEH called to contend by
fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
5 Then said I, O LORD ELOHIM, cease, I beseech THEE: by whom shall Jacob arise?
for he is small.
6 YAHUVEH repented for this: This also shall not be, saith YAHUVEH.
7 Thus HE shewed me: and, behold, YAHUVEH stood upon a wall made by a
plumbline, with a plumbline in HIS hand.
8 And YAHUVEH said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then
said YAHUVEH, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of MY people Israel: I
will not again pass by them any more:
9 And 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.
10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel 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.
11 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely
be led away captive out of their own land.
12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of
Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
13 But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king's
chapel, and it is the king's court.
14 Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was
I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore
fruit:
15 And YAHUVEH took me as I followed the flock, and YAHUVEH said unto me, Go,
prophesy unto MY people Israel.
16 Now therefore hear thou the word of YAHUVEH: Thou sayest, Prophesy not
against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.
17 Therefore thus saith YAHUVEH; Thy wife shall be an 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 shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely
go into captivity forth of his land.
~ Amos 8 ~
1 Thus hath YAHUVEH shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
2 And HE said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then
said YAHUVEH unto me, The end is come upon MY people of Israel; I will not again
pass by them any more.
3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith YAHUVEH: there
shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them
forth with silence.
4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land
to fail,
5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath,
that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and
falsifying the balances by deceit?
6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea,
and sell the refuse of the wheat?
7 YAHUVEH hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any
of their works.
8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth
therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and
drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith YAHUVEH, that I will cause the
sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
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 of an only son, and the
end thereof as a bitter day.
11 Behold, the days come, saith YAHUVEH, 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
YAHUVEH:
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 YAHUVEH, and shall not find it.
13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy ELOHIM, O Dan, liveth;
and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up
again.
~ Amos 9 ~
1 I saw YAHUVEH standing upon the altar: and HE said, Smite the lintel of the
door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I
will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee
away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.
2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall MINE hand take them; though they climb
up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:
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 he shall bite them:
4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command
the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil,
and not for good.
5 And YAHUVEH of HOSTS isHE that toucheth the land, and it shall melt,
and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a
flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
6 It isHE that buildeth HIS stories in the heaven, and hath founded
HIS troop in the earth; HE that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth
them out upon the face of the earth: YAHUVEHisHIS name.
7 Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto ME, O children of
Israel? saith YAHUVEH. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt?
and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
8 Behold, the eyes of YAHUVEHare upon the sinful kingdom, and I will
destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly
destroy the house of Jacob, saith YAHUVEH.
9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all
nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least
grain fall upon the earth.
10 All the sinners of MY people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil
shall not overtake nor prevent us.
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 his ruins, and I will build it as
in the days of old:
12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are
called by MY name, saith YAHUVEH that doeth this.
13 Behold, the days come, saith YAHUVEH, 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.
14 And I will bring again 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.
15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up
out of their land which I have given them, saith YAHUVEH thy ELOHIM.