[Amos 1]
1:1 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.
1:2 And 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.
1:3 Thus 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:
1:4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which
shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.
1:5 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 the LORD.
1:6 Thus 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:
1:7 But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which 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 mine
hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall
perish, saith the Lord GOD.
1:9 Thus 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:
1:10 But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall
devour the palaces thereof.
1:11 Thus 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:
1:12 But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour
the palaces of Bozrah.
1:13 Thus 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:
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 the LORD.
[Amos 2]
2:1 Thus 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:
2:2 But 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:
2:3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and
will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.
2:4 Thus 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:
2:5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour
the palaces of Jerusalem.
2:6 Thus 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;
2:7 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 my holy
name:
2:8 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 god.
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 from the land of Egypt, and led
you forty years through 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 Nazarites. [Is it] not even thus, O ye children
of Israel? saith the LORD.
2:12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded
the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
2:13 Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed
[that is] full of sheaves.
2:14 Therefore the 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 the LORD.
[Amos 3]
3:1 Hear 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,
3:2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth:
therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
3:3 Can two walk together, except they be 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] for him? shall [one] take up a snare from the earth, and
have taken nothing at all?
3:6 Shall 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]?
3:7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his
secret unto his servants the prophets.
3:8 The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD
hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
3:9 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.
3:10 For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store
up violence and robbery in their palaces.
3:11 Therefore 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.
3:12 Thus 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.
3:13 Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the
Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
3:14 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.
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 the LORD.
[Amos 4]
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.
4:2 The 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.
4:3 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 the LORD.
4:4 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply
transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, [and]
your tithes after three years:
4:5 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 the Lord GOD.
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 the LORD.
4:7 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.
4:8 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 the LORD.
4:9 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 the LORD.
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
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.
4:11 I 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.
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, The LORD, The God of hosts, [is] his name.
[Amos 5]
5:1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, [even] a
lamentation, O house of Israel.
5:2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise:
she is forsaken upon her land; [there is] none to raise her up.
5:3 For 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.
5:4 For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye
me, and ye shall live:
5:5 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.
5:6 Seek 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.
5:7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off
righteousness in the earth,
5:8 [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: The LORD [is]
his name:
5:9 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so
that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
5:10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor
him that speaketh uprightly.
5:11 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.
5:12 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].
5:13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time;
for it [is] an evil time.
5:14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the
LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
5:15 Hate 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.
5:16 Therefore 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.
5:17 And in all vineyards [shall be] wailing: for I will pass
through thee, saith the LORD.
5:18 Woe 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.
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 the LORD [be] darkness, and not
light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
5:21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell
in your solemn assemblies.
5:22 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.
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 judgment run down as waters, and righteousness
as a mighty stream.
5:25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the
wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
5:26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and
Chiun 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 the LORD, whose name [is] The God of hosts.
[Amos 6]
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!
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: [be
they] better than these kingdoms? or 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 chant to the sound of the viol, [and] invent to
themselves instruments of music, like David;
6:6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the
chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of
Joseph.
6:7 Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that
go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves
shall be removed.
6:8 The 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.
6:9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one
house, that they shall die.
6:10 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 the
LORD.
6:11 For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the
great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
6:12 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:
6:13 Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have
we not taken to us horns by our own strength?
6:14 But, 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]
7:1 Thus hath the Lord GOD showed 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.
7:2 And it came to pass, [that] when they had made an end of
eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive,
I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he [is] small.
7:3 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the
LORD.
7:4 Thus hath the Lord GOD showed unto me: and, behold, the
Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great
deep, and did eat up a part.
7:5 Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom
shall Jacob arise? for he [is] small.
7:6 The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith
the Lord GOD.
7:7 Thus he showed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a
wall [made] by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
7:8 And 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:
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 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.
7:11 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword,
and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own
land.
7:12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee
away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy
there:
7:13 But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it [is]
the king's chapel, and it [is] the king's court.
7:14 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 sycamore fruit:
7:15 And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the
LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
7:16 Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou
sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not [thy word]
against the house of Isaac.
7:17 Therefore 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]
8:1 Thus hath the Lord GOD showed unto 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 the LORD unto me, The end is come
upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any
more.
8:3 And 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.
8:4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make
the poor of the land to fail,
8:5 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?
8:6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a
pair of shoes; [yea], and sell the refuse of the wheat?
8:7 The LORD 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? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood;
and it shall be cast out and drowned, as [by] the flood of
Egypt.
8:9 And 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:
8:10 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.
8:11 Behold, 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:
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 the LORD, and shall not find [it].
8:13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint
for thirst.
8:14 They 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]
9:1 I 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.
9:2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take
them; 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 he 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 And 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.
9:6 [It 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.
9:7 [Are] 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?
9:8 Behold, 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.
9:9 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.
9:10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,
which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent 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 his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
9:12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all
the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that
doeth this.
9:13 Behold, 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.
9:14 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.
9:15 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 the LORD thy God.