Amos
1:1The words of Amos, who was among the
herdsmen 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. 1:2And he said, Jehovah
will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures
of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither. 1:3Thus
saith Jehovah: 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: 1:4but I will send a fire into the house
of Hazael, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad. 1:5And 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 Jehovah. 1:6Thus
saith Jehovah: 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: 1:7but I will send a fire
on the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. 1:8And I
will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre
from Ashkelon; and I will turn my hand against Ekron; and the remnant of
the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord Jehovah. 1:9Thus saith Jehovah: 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: 1:10but I will send a fire
on the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. 1:11Thus saith Jehovah: 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: 1:12but I will send a fire upon Teman, and
it shall devour the palaces of Bozrah. 1:13Thus saith Jehovah:
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 may enlarge their border. 1:14But
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; 1:15and their king shall go into
captivity, he and his princes together, saith Jehovah.
2:1Thus saith Jehovah: 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: 2:2but 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; 2:3and I will cut off the judge from the
midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith
Jehovah. 2:4Thus saith Jehovah: For three
transgressions of Judah, yea, for four, I will not turn away the
punishment thereof; because they have rejected the law of Jehovah, and
have not kept his statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, after
which their fathers did walk: 2:5but I will send a fire upon Judah, and
it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. 2:6Thus saith Jehovah: 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- 2:7they 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 go unto the same maiden, to profane my holy
name: 2:8and 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. 2:9Yet 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. 2:10Also I brought you up out of the land
of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land
of the Amorite. 2:11And 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 Jehovah. 2:12But ye gave the Nazirites wine to
drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not. 2:13Behold, I will press you in
your place, as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves. 2:14And
flight shall perish from the swift; and the strong shall not strengthen
his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself; 2:15neither 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; 2:16and
he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day,
saith Jehovah.
3:1Hear this word that Jehovah hath spoken
against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I
brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying, 3:2You only have I known
of all the families of the earth: therefore I will visit upon you all your
iniquities. 3:3Shall two walk together, except they
have agreed? 3:4Will 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? 3:5Can a bird fall in a snare upon the
earth, where no gin is set for him? shall a snare spring up from
the ground, and have taken nothing at all? 3:6Shall the trumpet be
blown in a city, and the people not be afraid? shall evil befall a city,
and Jehovah hath not done it? 3:7Surely the Lord Jehovah will do
nothing, except he reveal his secret unto his servants the prophets. 3:8The
lion hath roared; who will not fear? The Lord Jehovah hath spoken; who can
but prophesy? 3:9Publish 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 what great tumults are therein, and
what oppressions in the midst thereof. 3:10For they know not to
do right, saith Jehovah, who store up violence and robbery in their
palaces. 3:11Therefore thus saith the Lord 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
plundered. 3:12Thus saith Jehovah: 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. 3:13Hear ye, and testify
against the house of Jacob, saith the Lord Jehovah, the God of hosts. 3:14For
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. 3:15And 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 Jehovah.
4:1Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that
are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the
needy, that say unto their lords, Bring, and let us drink. 4:2The
Lord Jehovah 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. 4:3And ye shall go out at the breaches,
every one straight before her; and ye shall cast yourselves into
Harmon, saith Jehovah. 4:4Come to Beth-el, and transgress; to
Gilgal, and multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every
morning, and your tithes every three days; 4:5and offer a sacrifice
of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill-offerings
and publish them: for this pleaseth you, O ye children of Israel, saith
the Lord Jehovah. 4:6And 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 Jehovah. 4:7And 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. 4:8So two or three cities wandered unto
one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned
unto me, saith Jehovah. 4:9I 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 palmer-worm devoured: yet have ye
not returned unto me, saith Jehovah. 4:10I 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 stench of your camp to
come up even into your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith
Jehovah. 4:11I have overthrown cities 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
Jehovah. 4:12Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O
Israel; and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy
God, O Israel. 4:13For, 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, the God of hosts, is his name.
5:1Hear ye this word which I take up for a
lamentation over you, O house of Israel. 5:2The virgin of Israel is
fallen; she shall no more rise: she is cast down upon her land; there is
none to raise her up. 5:3For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The
city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which
went forth a hundred shall have ten left, to the house of Israel. 5:4For
thus saith Jehovah unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall
live; 5:5but seek not Beth-el, nor enter into
Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into
captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought. 5:6Seek Jehovah, 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. 5:7Ye who turn justice to
wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth, 5:8seek 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 (Jehovah is
his name); 5:9that bringeth sudden destruction upon
the strong, so that destruction cometh upon the fortress. 5:10They hate him that reproveth in the
gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. 5:11Forasmuch therefore as
ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him 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 thereof. 5:12For
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. 5:13Therefore he that is
prudent shall keep silence in such a time; for it is an evil time. 5:14Seek good, and not evil, that ye may
live; and so Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be with you, as ye say. 5:15Hate the evil, and love the good, and
establish justice in the gate: it may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts,
will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. 5:16Therefore thus saith
Jehovah, 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 in lamentation to
wailing. 5:17And in all vineyards shall be wailing;
for I will pass through the midst of thee, saith Jehovah. 5:18Woe
unto you that desire the day of Jehovah! Wherefore would ye have the day
of Jehovah? It is darkness, and not light. 5:19As 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. 5:20Shall not the day of
Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in
it? 5:21I hate, I despise your feasts, and I
will take no delight in your solemn assemblies. 5:22Yea, 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. 5:23Take thou away from me the noise of
thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. 5:24But
let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. 5:25Did
ye bring unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O
house of Israel? 5:26Yea, ye have borne the tabernacle of
your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which ye
made to yourselves. 5:27Therefore will I cause you to go into
captivity beyond Damascus, saith Jehovah, whose name is the God of hosts.
6:1Woe to them that are at ease in Zion,
and to them that are secure in the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of
the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come! 6:2Pass
ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great; then
go down to Gath of the Philistines: are they better than these kingdoms?
or is their border greater than your border? 6:3-ye that put far away
the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; 6:4that
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;
6:5that sing idle songs to the sound of
the viol; that invent for themselves instruments of music, like David; 6:6that
drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief oils; but they
are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. 6:7Therefore shall they
now go captive with the first that go captive; and the revelry of them
that stretched themselves shall pass away. 6:8The Lord Jehovah hath
sworn by himself, saith Jehovah, 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. 6:9And it shall come to pass, if there
remain ten men in one house, that they shall die. 6:10And when a man's 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 Jehovah.
6:11For, behold, Jehovah commandeth, and
the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with
clefts. 6:12Shall horses run upon the rock? will
one plow there with oxen? that ye have turned justice into gall,
and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood; 6:13ye that rejoice in a
thing of nought, that say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own
strength? 6:14For, behold, I will raise up against
you a nation, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah, the God of hosts; and they
shall afflict you from the entrance of Hamath unto the brook of the Arabah.
7:1Thus the Lord Jehovah 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 king's mowings.
7:2And it came to pass that, when they
made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord Jehovah,
forgive, I beseech thee: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small. 7:3Jehovah repented concerning this: It
shall not be, saith Jehovah. 7:4Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and,
behold, the Lord Jehovah called to content by fire; and it devoured the
great deep, and would have eaten up the land. 7:5Then said I, O Lord
Jehovah, cease, I beseech thee: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small. 7:6Jehovah repented concerning this: this
also shall not be, saith the Lord Jehovah. 7:7Thus he showed me: and,
behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb-line, with a
plumb-line in his hand. 7:8And Jehovah said unto me, Amos, what
seest thou? And I said, A plumb-line. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will
set a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel; I will not again pass
by them any more; 7:9and 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. 7:10Then Amaziah the
priest of Beth-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. 7:11For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall
die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his
land. 7:12Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou
seer, go, flee thou away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and
prophesy there: 7:13but prophesy not again any more at
Beth-el; for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house. 7:14Then answered Amos, and said to
Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a
herdsman, and a dresser of sycomore-trees: 7:15and Jehovah took me
from following the flock, and Jehovah said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my
people Israel. 7:16Now therefore hear thou the word of
Jehovah: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy
word against the house of Isaac; 7:17therefore thus saith Jehovah: Thy wife
shall be a 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.
8:1Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and,
behold, a basket of summer fruit. 8:2And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And
I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said Jehovah unto me, The end is
come upon my people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more. 8:3And
the songs of the temple shall be wailings in that day, saith the Lord
Jehovah: the dead bodies shall be many: in every place shall they cast
them forth with silence. 8:4Hear this, O ye that would swallow up
the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail, 8:5saying, When will the
new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the sabbath, that we may set
forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing
falsely with balances of deceit; 8:6that we may buy the poor for silver,
and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat? 8:7Jehovah hath sworn by the excellency of
Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works. 8:8Shall not the land
tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? yea, it shall
rise up wholly like the River; and it shall be troubled and sink again,
like the River of Egypt. 8:9And it shall come to pass in that day,
saith the Lord Jehovah, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and
I will darken the earth in the clear day. 8:10And I will turn your
feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will
bring 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. 8:11Behold, the days come, saith the Lord
Jehovah, 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 Jehovah. 8:12And
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 Jehovah, and shall not find
it. 8:13In that day shall the fair virgins and
the young men faint for thirst. 8:14They that swear by the sin of Samaria,
and say, As thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, As the way of Beer-sheba liveth;
they shall fall, and never rise up again.
9:1I saw the Lord standing beside the
altar: and he said, Smite the capitals, 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. 9:2Though they dig into Sheol, thence
shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I
bring them down. 9:3And 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 it shall bite them. 9:4And 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. 9:5For
the Lord, Jehovah of 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; 9:6it
is he that buildeth his chambers in the heavens, 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; Jehovah is his name. 9:7Are
ye not as the children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel?
saith Jehovah. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and
the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir? 9:8Behold, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah
are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of
the earth; save that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith
Jehovah. 9:9For, lo, I will command, and I will
sift the house of Israel among all the nations, like as grain is
sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least kernel fall upon the earth. 9:10All
the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, The evil shall
not overtake nor meet us. 9:11In that day will I raise up the
tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and
I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old; 9:12that they may possess the remnant of
Edom, and all the nations that are called by my name, saith Jehovah that
doeth this. 9:13Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah,
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. 9:14And I will bring back 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. 9:15And 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 Jehovah thy God.
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