
Amos

   {1:1} The 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. {1:2} And 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. {1:3} Thus 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: {1:4} but 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
Jehovah. {1:6} Thus 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:
{1:7} 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
my hand against Ekron; and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,
saith the Lord Jehovah. {1:9} Thus 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: {1:10} but I will send a
fire on the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
{1:11} Thus 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: {1:12} but
I will send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the palaces of
Bozrah. {1:13} Thus 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. {1:14} 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; {1:15} and their king shall go into captivity, he and his
princes together, saith Jehovah.



   {2:1} Thus 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: {2:2} 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;
{2:3} and I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will
slay all the princes thereof with him, saith Jehovah. {2:4} Thus 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: {2:5} but I will send
a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. {2:6}
Thus 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- {2:7} 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 go unto the [same]
maiden, 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. {2:9} 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. {2:10} Also 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. {2:11} 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 Jehovah. {2:12} But ye gave the
Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy
not. {2:13} Behold, I will press [you] in your place, as a cart
presseth that is full of sheaves. {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 Jehovah.



   {3:1} Hear 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, {3:2} You only have I known of all the
families of the earth: therefore I will visit upon you all your
iniquities. {3:3} Shall two walk together, except they have agreed?
{3:4} 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? {3:5} Can 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?
{3:6} Shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be
afraid? shall evil befall a city, and Jehovah hath not done it? {3:7}
Surely the Lord Jehovah will do nothing, except he reveal his secret
unto his servants the prophets. {3:8} The lion hath roared; who will
not fear? The Lord Jehovah hath spoken; who can but prophesy? {3:9}
Publish 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. {3:10} For they know not to do right, saith Jehovah, who
store up violence and robbery in their palaces. {3:11} Therefore 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. {3:12} Thus 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. {3:13} Hear ye,
and testify against the house of Jacob, saith the Lord Jehovah, 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
Jehovah.





   {4:1} Hear 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. {4:2} The 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. {4:3}
And ye shall go out at the breaches, every one straight before her; and
ye shall cast [yourselves] into Harmon, saith Jehovah. {4:4} Come to
Beth-el, and transgress; to Gilgal, [and] multiply transgression; and
bring your sacrifices every morning, [and] your tithes every three
days; {4:5} and 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. {4:6}
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 Jehovah. {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 Jehovah. {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 palmer-worm devoured: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith
Jehovah. {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 stench of your camp to come up
even into your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith
Jehovah. {4:11} I 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. {4:12}
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-jehovah, the God of hosts, is his
name.





   {5:1} Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you,
O house of Israel. {5:2} The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no
more rise: she is cast down upon her land; there is none to raise her
up. {5:3} For 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. {5:4} For thus saith
Jehovah unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live; {5:5}
but 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. {5:6} Seek 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. {5:7} Ye who turn justice 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
(Jehovah is his name); {5:9} that bringeth sudden destruction upon the
strong, so that destruction cometh upon the fortress. {5:10} They hate
him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh
uprightly. {5:11} Forasmuch 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. {5:12} 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]. {5:13} Therefore he that is prudent shall keep
silence in such a time; for it is an evil time. {5:14} Seek good, and
not evil, that ye may live; and so Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be
with you, as ye say. {5:15} Hate 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. {5:16} Therefore
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. {5:17} And in all vineyards shall be wailing;
for I will pass through the midst of thee, saith Jehovah. {5:18} Woe
unto you that desire the day of Jehovah! Wherefore would ye have the
day of Jehovah? It is darkness, and not light. {5:19} 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. {5:20} Shall not the day
of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no
brightness in it? {5:21} I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take
no delight in your solemn assemblies. {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. {5:23}
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the
melody of thy viols. {5:24} But let justice roll down as waters, and
righteousness as a mighty stream. {5:25} Did ye bring unto me
sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of
Israel? {5:26} Yea, ye have borne the tabernacle of your king and the
shrine of your images, the star of your god, which ye made to
yourselves. {5:27} Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity
beyond Damascus, saith Jehovah, whose name is the God of hosts.



   {6:1} Woe 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! {6:2} Pass 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; {6:4} 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; {6:5} that sing idle songs to the sound of the viol; that invent
for themselves instruments of music, like David; {6:6} that drink wine
in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief oils; but they are not
grieved for the affliction of Joseph. {6:7} Therefore 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 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. {6:9} And it shall come to pass, if there remain
ten men in one house, that they shall die. {6:10} And 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. {6:11} For, behold, Jehovah 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 justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness
into wormwood; {6:13} ye that rejoice in a thing of nought, that 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 Jehovah,
the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entrance of
Hamath unto the brook of the Arabah.



   {7:1} Thus 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. {7:2} And 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. {7:3} Jehovah repented concerning this:
It shall not be, saith Jehovah. {7:4} Thus 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. {7:5} Then
said I, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I beseech thee: how shall Jacob stand?
for he is small. {7:6} Jehovah repented concerning this: this also
shall not be, saith the Lord Jehovah. {7:7} Thus he showed me: and,
behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb-line, with a
plumb-line in his hand. {7:8} And 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; {7:9} 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. {7:10} Then
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. {7:11} For thus Amos saith,
Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away
captive out of his land. {7:12} Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou
seer, go, flee thou 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 king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house. {7:14} Then
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:
{7:15} and Jehovah took me from following the flock, and Jehovah said
unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel. {7:16} Now therefore hear
thou the word of Jehovah: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and
drop not [thy word] against the house of Isaac; {7:17} therefore 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.



   {8:1} Thus the Lord Jehovah 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 Jehovah 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 wailings in that day, saith the Lord
Jehovah: the dead bodies shall be many: in every place shall they cast
them forth with silence. {8:4} Hear this, O ye that would swallow up
the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail, {8:5} saying, 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; {8:6} 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} Jehovah hath sworn by the excellency of
Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works. {8:8} Shall 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. {8:9} And 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. {8:10}
And 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. {8:11} Behold, 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. {8:12} 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
Jehovah, and shall not find it. {8:13} In that day shall the fair
virgins and the young men faint for thirst. {8:14} They 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.



   {9:1} I 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. {9:2} Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall my 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
it shall bite them. {9:4} 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. {9:5}
For 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;
{9:6} [it 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. {9:7} Are 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? {9:8} Behold, 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.
{9:9} For, 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. {9:10} All the sinners of my
people shall die by the sword, who say, The evil shall not overtake nor
meet 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
its 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 that are called by
my name, saith Jehovah that doeth this. {9:13} Behold, 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. {9:14} And 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.
{9:15} 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 Jehovah thy
God.




