Amos 1
1The
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.
2And
he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and
the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall
wither.
3Thus saith the LORD; 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:
4But
I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of
Benhadad.
5I
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 the LORD.
6Thus saith the LORD; 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:
7But
I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:
8And
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 the Lord GOD.
9Thus saith the LORD; 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:
10But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall
devour the palaces thereof.
11Thus saith the LORD; 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:
12But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the
palaces of Bozrah.
13Thus saith the LORD; 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:
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:
15And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes
together, saith the LORD.
Amos 2
1Thus saith the LORD; 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:
2But
I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and
Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:
3And
I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes
thereof with him, saith the LORD.
4Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and
for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have
despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their
lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
5But
I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
6Thus saith the LORD; 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;
7That 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 my holy name:
8And
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 god.
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.
10Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you
forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
11And 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
the LORD.
12But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the
prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
13Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that
is full of sheaves.
14Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the
strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver
himself:
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.
16And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away
naked in that day, saith the LORD.
Amos 3
1Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O
children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land
of Egypt, saying,
2You
only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you
for all your iniquities.
3Can
two walk together, except they be agreed?
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?
5Can
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?
6Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be
afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
7Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his
secret unto his servants the prophets.
8The
lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but
prophesy?
9Publish 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.
10For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up
violence and robbery in their palaces.
11Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; 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.
12Thus saith the LORD; 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.
13Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord
GOD, the God of hosts,
14That 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.
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 the LORD.
Amos 4
1Hear 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.
2The
Lord GOD 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.
3And
ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye
shall cast them into the palace, saith the LORD.
4Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply
transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after
three years:
5And
offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the
free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord
GOD.
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 the LORD.
7And
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.
8So
two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not
satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
9I
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 the LORD.
10I
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 the LORD.
11I
have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were
as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me,
saith the LORD.
12Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I
will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
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, The LORD, The God of
hosts, is his name.
Amos 5
1Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a
lamentation, O house of Israel.
2The
virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her
land; there is none to raise her up.
3For
thus saith the Lord GOD; 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.
4For
thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
5But
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.
6Seek the LORD, 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.
7Ye
who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
8Seek 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: The LORD is his name:
9That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that
the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
10They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him
that speaketh uprightly.
11Forasmuch 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.
12For 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.
13Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for
it is an evil time.
14Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD,
the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
15Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in
the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant
of Joseph.
16Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, 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.
17And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass
through thee, saith the LORD.
18Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end
is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
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.
20Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light?
even very dark, and no brightness in it?
21I
hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn
assemblies.
22Though 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.
23Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will
not hear the melody of thy viols.
24But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a
mighty stream.
25Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the
wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
26But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun
your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
27Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond
Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
Amos 6
1Woe
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!
2Pass 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?
3Ye
that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
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;
5That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to
themselves instruments of musick, like David;
6That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the
chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
7Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go
captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
8The
Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the 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.
9And
it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall
die.
10And 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 the LORD.
11For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the
great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
12Shall 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:
13Ye
which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by
our own strength?
14But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house
of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the
entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.
Amos 7
1Thus hath the Lord GOD 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.
2And
it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the
land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob
arise? for he is small.
3The
LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.
4Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord
GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a
part.
5Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom
shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
6The
LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.
7Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the LORD stood upon a wall
made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
8And
the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then
said the LORD, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel:
I will not again pass by them any more:
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.
10Then 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.
11For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and
Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.
12Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee
away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
13But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the
king's chapel, and it is the king's court.
14Then 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:
15And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD
said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
16Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest,
Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.
17Therefore thus saith the LORD; 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
1Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket
of summer fruit.
2And
he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said
the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again
pass by them any more.
3And
the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD:
there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with
silence.
4Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the
poor of the land to fail,
5Saying, 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?
6That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a
pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
7The
LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of
their works.
8Shall 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.
9And
it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the
sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
10And 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.
11Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, 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 LORD:
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 the LORD, and
shall not find it.
13In
that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
14They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O
Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and
never rise up again.
Amos 9
1I
saw the LORD 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.
2Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them;
though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:
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 he shall bite them:
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.
5And
the Lord GOD of hosts is he 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.
6It
is he 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: The LORD is his name.
7Are
ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the
LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the
Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
8Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are 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 the LORD.
9For, 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.
10All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which
say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
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 his ruins, and I will build it as in
the days of old:
12That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the
heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.
13Behold, the days come, saith the 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.
14And 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.
15And 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 the LORD thy
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