1 The words of Amos, who was one of the shepherds of Tekoa, who prophesied about Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
2 He said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and will shout his voice from Jerusalem, and the shepherds’ fields will mourn, and the top of Carmel will dry up.
3 Thus says the LORD: For three sins of Damascus, and for the fourth, I will not revoke punishment from him; for they threshed Gilead with iron threshings.
4 I will set fire in the house of Hazael, and it will consume the palaces of Ben-hadad.
5 And I will break the bars of Damascus, and I will destroy the inhabitants of the valley of Aven, and the governors of Beth-eden; and the people of Syria will be carried away to Kir, says the LORD.
6 Thus says the LORD: For three sins of Gaza, and for the fourth, I will not revoke punishment from him; for he took a whole people captive to deliver them to Edom.
7 I will set fire on the wall of Gaza, and it will consume its palaces.
8 And I will destroy the inhabitants of Ashdod, and the governors of Ashkelon; and I will turn my hand against Ekron, and the rest of the Philistines will perish, says the Lord GOD.
9 Thus says the LORD: For three sins of Tyre, and for the fourth, I will not revoke punishment from him; because they delivered a whole people into captivity to Edom, and they did not remember the covenant of brothers.
10 I will set fire on the wall of Tyre, and it will consume its palaces.
11 Thus says the LORD: For three sins of Edom, and for the fourth, I will not revoke punishment from him; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and violated all natural affection; and in his fury he has always robbed him, and he has perpetually held a grudge.
12 I will set fire in Teman, and it will consume the palaces of Bozrah.
13 Thus says the Jehovah: For three sins of the Ammonites, and for the fourth, I will not revoke their punishment; because to enlarge their lands they opened the women of Gilead who were pregnant.
14 I will kindle a fire on the wall of Rabbah, and it will consume its palaces with a roar on the day of battle, with a storm on a tempestuous day;
15 And his king will go into captivity, he and all his princes, says the Lord.
1Thus says the Lord: For three sins of Moab, and for the fourth, I will not revoke their punishment; for he burned the bones of the king of Edom to ashes.
2 I will set fire in Moab, and it will consume the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab will die with a tumult, with a noise and with the sound of a trumpet.
3 And I will remove the judge from among him, and I will put to death with him all his princes, says the LORD.
4 Thus says the LORD: For three sins of Judah, and for the fourth, I will not revoke punishment from him; because they despised the law of the Lord, and did not keep his ordinances, and their lies caused them to err, after which their fathers walked.
5 Therefore I will kindle a fire in Judah, which will consume the palaces of Jerusalem.
6 Thus says the Jehovah: For three sins of Israel, and for the fourth, I will not revoke their punishment; because they sold the righteous for money, and the poor for a pair of shoes.
7 They trample the heads of the helpless in the dust of the earth, and they pervert the path of the humble; and his son and his father approach the same young woman, profaning my holy name.
8 On pawned clothes they lie down next to any altar; and they drink the wine of the fined in the house of their gods.
9 I destroyed before them the Amorite, whose height was as the height of the cedars, and strong as an oak; and I destroyed its fruit above and its roots below.
10 And I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you through the wilderness for forty years, that you might enter into possession of the land of the Amorites.
11 And I raised up your sons to be prophets, and your young men to be Nazarites. Is this not so, says the LORD, children of Israel?
12 But you gave wine to the Nazarites to drink, and you commanded the prophets, saying, Do not prophesy.
13 For behold, I will press you in your place, as a cart full of sheaves is pressed;
14 and the swift will not be able to flee, and the strong will not be helped by his strength, nor will the mighty man save his life from him.
15 He who wields the bow will not resist, nor will the swift of foot escape, nor will he who rides a horse save his life.
16 The mighty man of the mighty men will flee naked on that day, says the Lord.
1 Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, children of Israel, against all the family that I brought up from the land of Egypt. He says thus:
2 Of all the families of the earth I have only known you; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
3 Can two walk together if they do not agree?
4 Will the lion roar in the jungle without prey? Will the young lion roar from his den if he does not seize?
5 Will the bird fall in a snare upon the earth, without there being a hunter? Will the snare be lifted from the earth, if it has not caught something?
6 Will the trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not riot? Will there be any evil in the city, which the Lord has not done?
7 For the Lord God will do nothing, except he reveal his secret to his servants the prophets.
8 If the lion roars, who will not fear? If the Lord God speaks, who will not prophesy?
9 Proclaim in the palaces of Ashdod, and in the palaces of the land of Egypt, and say: Gather yourselves together on the mountains of Samaria, and see the many oppressions in the midst of it, and the violence committed in its midst.
10 They do not know how to do what is right, says the Lord, storing up plunder and plunder in their palaces.
11 Therefore thus says the Lord God: An enemy will come from all sides of the earth, and will destroy your stronghold, and your palaces will be plundered.
12 Thus says the LORD: Just as a shepherd rescues two legs or the tip of an ear from the mouth of a lion, so will the children of Israel who live in Samaria escape from the corner of a bed and by a bed. litter.
13 Hear and testify against the house of Jacob, says the Lord God of hosts:
14 On the day that I punish the transgressions of Israel, I will also punish the altars of Bethel; and the horns of the altar will be cut off, and will fall to the ground.
15 And I will strike the winter house with the summer house, and the ivory houses will perish; and many houses will be ruined, says the Lord.
1 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your lords, Bring, and we will drink.
2 The Lord God has sworn by his holiness: Behold, the days are coming upon you, when they will take you with hooks, and your descendants with fisher’s hooks;
3 and you will go out through the breaches one after another, and you will be driven out of the palace, says the Lord.
4 Go to Bethel, and transgress; increase the rebellion in Gilgal, and bring your sacrifices in the morning, and your tithes every three days.
5 And offer a sacrifice of praise with leavened bread, and proclaim, publish freewill offerings, since you want it, children of Israel, says the Lord God.
6 I made you clean teeth in all your cities, and there was a lack of bread in all your towns; but you did not return to me, says the Lord.
7 I also withheld the rain for you three months before the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and I did not cause it to rain on another city; On one part it rained, and the part on which it did not rain dried up.
8 And two or three cities came to one city to drink water, and they were not satisfied; Yet you did not return to me, says the Lord.
9 I struck you with the east wind and with caterpillars; The locust devoured your many gardens and your vineyards, and your fig trees and your olive groves; but you never returned to me, says the Lord.
10 I sent destruction upon you, just as in Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, with captivity of your horses, and made the stench of your camps rise to your nostrils; but you did not return to me, says the Lord.
11 I overthrew you as when God overturned Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a brand escaped from the fire; but you did not return to me, says the Lord.
12 Therefore, in this way I will do to you, O Israel; and because I must do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel.
13 For behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and announces to man the thought of it; He who makes darkness tomorrow, and passes over the heights of the earth; Jehovah God of hosts is his name.
1 Hear this word that I lift up as a lamentation for you, house of Israel.
2 The virgin of Israel fell, and she will not be able to rise again; She was left on her land, there is no one to lift her up.
3 For thus says the Lord GOD: The city that goes out with a thousand will return with a hundred, and the city that goes out with a hundred will return with ten, to the house of Israel.
4 But thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek me, and you will live;
5 and do not seek Bethel, nor enter Gilgal, nor pass over to Beersheba; for Gilgal will be taken into captivity, and Bethel will be destroyed.
6 Seek the Lord, and live; lest he attack the house of Joseph like fire and consume it, without there being anyone in Beth to quench it.
7 You who turn judgment into wormwood and cast justice to the ground,
8 seek him who makes the Pleiades and Orion, and turns darkness into morning, and makes the day dark like night; He who calls the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the face of the earth; Jehovah is his name;
9 who gives strength to the plunderer over the strong, and causes the plunderer to come upon the stronghold.
10 They hated the rebuker at the city gate, and they abhorred him who spoke what was right.
11 Therefore, since you harass the poor and receive loads of wheat from him, you built houses of hewn stone, but you will not live in them; You planted beautiful vineyards, but you will not drink the wine from them.
12 For I know of your many transgressions, and of your great sins; I know that you afflict the righteous, and receive bribes, and in the courts you cause the poor to lose his cause.
13 Therefore the wise man remains silent in such a time, because the time is evil.
14 Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; for thus the Lord God of hosts will be with you, as you say.
15 Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in judgment; perhaps Jehovah God of hosts will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.
16 Therefore thus says the LORD, God of hosts: In every square there will be weeping, and in every street they will say, Alas! Alas, and they will call the farmer to weep, and to him a lament to those who know how to lament.
17 And in all the vineyards there will be weeping; for I will pass through your midst, says the Lord.
18 Woe to those who long for the day of the Lord! What do you want this day of Jehovah for? It will be darkness, and not light;
19 like one who flees from the lion and meets the bear; or as if I entered the house and put his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.
20 Will not the day of the Lord be darkness and not light? darkness, which has no light?
21 I have hated, I have abominated your solemnities, and I will not take pleasure in your assemblies.
22 And if you offer me your burnt offerings and your offerings, I will not receive them, nor will I look at the peace offerings of your fat animals.
23 Take away from me the multitude of your songs, for I will not listen to the psalmodies of your instruments.
24 But let judgment roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
25 Did you offer me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel?
26 But you carried the tabernacle of your Molech and Chiun, your idols, the star of your gods that you made for yourselves.
27 Therefore I will transport you beyond Damascus, says the LORD, whose name is God of hosts.
1 Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who trust in the mountain of Samaria, the notable and chief among the nations, to whom the house of Israel comes!
2 Go over to Calne, and see; and from there go to great Hamath; Then go down to Gath of the Philistines; See if those kingdoms are better than these kingdoms, if their extent is greater than yours,
3 O you who prolong the evil day, and draw near the seat of iniquity.
4 They sleep on beds of ivory, and rest on their couches; and they eat the lambs of the flock, and the bulls from the middle of the fattening place;
5 They chirp to the sound of the flute, and invent musical instruments, like David;
6 They drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the most precious ointments; and they do not grieve for the destruction of Joseph.
7 Therefore now they will go at the head of those who go into captivity, and the mourning of those who give themselves over to pleasure will draw near.
8 The Lord God has sworn by himself, The Lord God of hosts has said: I abhor the greatness of Jacob, and I hate his palaces; and I will deliver the city and all that is in it to the enemy.
9 And it will come to pass, that if ten men remain in one house, they will die.
10 And a relative will take each one, and burn him to take the bones out of the house; and he will say to him who will be in the corners of the house: Is there anyone still with you? And he will say: No. And he will say: Be silent, because we cannot mention the name of Jehovah.
11 For behold, the LORD will command, and will smite the larger house with breaches, and the smaller house with openings.
12 Will the horses run over the rocks? Will they plow in them with oxen? Why have you turned judgment into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood?
13 You who rejoice in nothing, who say: Have we not gained power by our strength?
14 For behold, O house of Israel, says the LORD God of hosts, I will raise up a nation over you, which will oppress you from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Arabah.
1 Thus has the Lord God shown me: Behold, he raised locusts when the late hay began to grow; and behold, it was the late hay after the king’s harvests.
2 And it came to pass, when he had finished eating the grass of the ground, that I said, Lord Jehovah, forgive now; who will raise up Jacob? because he is small.
3 The LORD repented of this: It shall not be, said the LORD.
4 Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, the Lord God called to judge with fire; and he consumed a great deep, and he consumed a part of the earth.
5 And I said, Lord Jehovah, cease now; who will raise up Jacob? because he is small.
6 The Lord repented of this: It shall not be this either, says the Lord God.
7 He taught me thus: Behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made of plumb, and in his hand a mason’s plumb line.
8 The Lord then said to me: What do you see, Amos? And I said: A bricklayer’s plumb line. And the Lord said, Behold, I set a mason’s plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I won’t tolerate it anymore.
9 The high places of Isaac will be destroyed, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste, and I will rise with a sword against the house of Jeroboam.
10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos has risen up against you in the midst of the house of Israel; The earth cannot bear all his words.
11 For thus says Amos: Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will be carried away from his land into captivity.
12 And Amaziah said to Amos, Seer, go, flee to the land of Judah, and eat your bread there, and prophesy there;
13 and prophesy no more in Bethel, for it is the king’s sanctuary and the capital of the kingdom.
14 Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet, but I am a herdsman, and I gather wild figs.
15 And the LORD took me from behind the cattle, and said to me, Go and prophesy to my people Israel.
16 Now therefore hear the word of the Lord. You say: Do not prophesy against Israel, nor speak against the house of Isaac.
17 Therefore thus says the LORD: Your wife will be a harlot in the midst of the city, and your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword, and your land will be divided by lot; and you will die in an unclean land, and Israel will be taken captive far from his land.
1 This is what the Lord God has shown me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit.
2 And he said, What do you see, Amos? And I answered: A basket of summer fruit. And the LORD said to me, The end has come upon my people Israel; I won’t tolerate it anymore.
3 And the singers of the temple will groan in that day, says the Lord God; many will be the dead bodies; In every place they will cast them out in silence.
4 Hear this, you who exploit the needy, and ruin the poor of the land,
5 saying, When will the month pass, and will we sell the wheat; and the week, and we will open the granaries of bread, and we will reduce the measure, and we will raise the price, and we will deceit the scales,
6 to buy the poor for money, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and we will sell the refuse of the wheat?
7 The Lord swore by the glory of Jacob: I will never forget all his works.
8 Will not the earth shake at this? Will not every inhabitant of it cry? It will all rise, like a river, and will increase and decrease like the river of Egypt.
9 It will come to pass on that day, says the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to set at noon, and will cover the earth with darkness on the clear day.
10 And I will turn your feasts into weeping, and all your songs into lamentations; and I will put sackcloth on every loin, and shave every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only begotten, and its end as a bitter day.
11 Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the LORD.
12 And they will wander from sea to sea; From the north to the east they will travel seeking the word of the Lord, and they will not find it.
13 At that time the beautiful maidens and the young men will faint from thirst.
14 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say: By your God, O Dan, and: By the way of Beersheba, they will fall, and will never rise again.
1 I saw the Lord standing on the altar, and he said, Break down the capital, and let the doors shake, and break them in pieces over everyone’s heads; and the last of them I will kill with the sword; There will be no one from them who flees, no one who escapes.
2 Even if they dig to Sheol, my hand will take them from there; and even if they ascend to heaven, I will bring them down from there.
3 If they hide on the top of Carmel, I will search for them there and take them; and even if they hide from my sight in the depths of the sea, there I will send the serpent and it will bite them.
4 And if they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will send the sword, and it will kill them; and I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good.
5 It is the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, who touches the earth, and it will melt, and all who dwell in it will weep; and it will all rise like a river, and then it will subside like the river of Egypt.
6 He built his chambers in heaven, and established his expanse on the earth; He calls the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the face of the earth; Jehovah is his name.
7 Children of Israel, are you not to me like children of Ethiopians, says the Lord? Did I not bring up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Arameans from Kir?
8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are against the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth; but I will not completely destroy the house of Jacob, says the Lord.
9 For behold, I will command and cause the house of Israel to be sifted among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, and not a grain falls into the earth.
10 All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, ‘No evil will come near or overtake us.’
11 In that day I will raise up the fallen tabernacle of David, and I will close its gates and raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the past;
12 that those who are called by my name may possess the rest of Edom, and all the nations, says the LORD who does this.
13 Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when he who plows will overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes will overtake him who bears the seed; and the mountains will drop new wine, and all the hills will melt.
14 And I will bring my people Israel out of captivity, and they will build the desolate cities and inhabit them; They will plant vineyards, and drink their wine, and make gardens, and eat their fruit.
15 For I will plant them on their land, and they will never again be uprooted from their land that I gave them, says the Lord your God.
