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The Book of Amos
Chapter 1
001:001 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.
001:002 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.
001:003 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:
001:004 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael,
which shall
devour the palaces of
Benhadad.
001:005 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.
001:006 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:
001:007 But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza,
which shall devour
the palaces
thereof:
001:008 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.
001:009 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:
001:010 But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus,
which shall
devour the palaces
thereof.
001:011 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:
001:012 But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall
devour the
palaces of Bozrah.
001:013 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:
001:014 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:
001:015 And their king shall go into captivity, he and
his princes
together, saith the
LORD.
002:001 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:
002:002 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:
002:003 And I will cut off the judge from the midst
thereof, and will
slay all the
princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.
002:004 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:
002:005 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall
devour the
palaces of
Jerusalem.
002:006 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;
002:007 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:
002:008 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.
002:009 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.
002:010 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.
002:011 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.
002:012 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and
commanded the
prophets, saying,
Prophesy not.
002:013 Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is
pressed that is
full of
sheaves.
002:014 Therefore the flight shall perish from the
swift, and the
strong shall not
strengthen his force, neither shall
the
mighty deliver himself:
002:015 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.
002:016 And he that is courageous among the mighty shall
flee away
naked in that day, saith
the LORD.
003:001 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,
003:002 You only have I known of all the families of the
earth:
therefore I will punish you
for all your iniquities.
003:003 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
003:004 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?
003:005 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?
003:006 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?
003:007 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he
revealeth his
secret unto his
servants the prophets.
003:008 The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the
Lord GOD hath
spoken, who can but
prophesy?
003:009 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.
003:010 For they know not to do right, saith the LORD,
who store up
violence and robbery
in their palaces.
003:011 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.
003:012 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.
003:013 Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob,
saith the Lord
GOD, the God of
hosts,
003:014 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.
003:015 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.
004:001 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.
004:002 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.
004:003 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.
004:004 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal
multiply
transgression; and bring
your sacrifices every morning, and
your tithes after three years:
004:005 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.
004:006 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.
004:007 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.
004:008 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.
004:009 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.
004:010 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.
004:011 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.
004:012 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel:
and because I
will do this unto
thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
004:013 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.
005:001 Hear ye this word which I take up against you,
even a
lamentation, O house of
Israel.
005:002 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no
more rise: she is
forsaken upon
her land; there is none to raise her up.
005:003 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.
005:004 For thus saith the LORD unto the house of
Israel, Seek ye me,
and ye shall
live:
005:005 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.
005:006 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.
005:007 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off
righteousness
in the earth,
005:008 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:
005:009 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the
strong, so that the
spoiled shall
come against the fortress.
005:010 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and
they abhor him
that speaketh
uprightly.
005:011 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.
005:012 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.
005:013 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that
time; for it
is an evil time.
005:014 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.
005:015 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.
005:016 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.
005:017 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I
will pass through
thee, saith the
LORD.
005:018 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.
005:019 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.
005:020 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and
not light? even
very dark, and no
brightness in it?
005:021 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will
not smell in
your solemn
assemblies.
005:022 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.
005:023 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs;
for I will not
hear the melody of
thy viols.
005:024 But let judgment run down as waters, and
righteousness as a
mighty
stream.
005:025 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings
in the
wilderness forty years, O
house of Israel?
005:026 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch
and Chiun your
images, the star of
your god, which ye made to yourselves.
005:027 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity
beyond
Damascus, saith the LORD,
whose name is The God of hosts.
006:001 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!
006:002 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?
006:003 Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the
seat of
violence to come near;
006:004 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;
006:005 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent
to themselves
instruments of
musick, like David;
006:006 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves
with the chief
ointments: but they
are not grieved for the affliction
of
Joseph.
006:007 Therefore now shall they go captive with the
first that go
captive, and the
banquet of them that stretched
themselves
shall be removed.
006:008 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.
006:009 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten
men in one
house, that they shall
die.
006:010 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.
006:011 For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will
smite the great
house with
breaches, and the little house with clefts.
006:012 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:
006:013 Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which
say, Have we not
taken to us horns
by our own strength?
006:014 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.
007:001 Thus 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.
007:002 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.
007:003 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.
007:004 Thus 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.
007:005 Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee:
by whom shall
Jacob arise? for he
is small.
007:006 The LORD repented for this: This also shall not
be, saith the
Lord GOD.
007:007 Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the LORD stood
upon a wall
made by a plumbline,
with a plumbline in his hand.
007:008 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:
007:009 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.
007:010 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.
007:011 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the
sword, and
Israel shall surely be
led away captive out of their own land.
007:012 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go,
flee thee away
into the land of
Judah, and there eat bread, and
prophesy
there:
007:013 But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for
it is the
king's chapel, and it is
the king's court.
007:014 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 sycomore fruit:
007:015 And the LORD took me as I followed the flock,
and the LORD
said unto me, Go,
prophesy unto my people Israel.
007:016 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.
007:017 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.
008:001 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and
behold a basket of
summer
fruit.
008:002 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.
008:003 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.
008:004 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even
to make the
poor of the land to
fail,
008:005 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?
008:006 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the
needy for a pair
of shoes; yea,
and sell the refuse of the wheat?
008:007 The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob,
Surely I will
never forget any of
their works.
008:008 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.
008:009 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:
008:010 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.
008:011 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:
008:012 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.
008:013 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men
faint for
thirst.
008:014 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.
009:001 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.
009:002 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine
hand take them;
though they climb
up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:
009:003 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:
009:004 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.
009:005 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.
009:006 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.
009:007 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?
009:008 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.
009:009 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.
009:010 All the sinners of my people shall die by the
sword, which
say, The evil shall
not overtake nor prevent us.
009:011 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:
009:012 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.
009:013 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.
009:014 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.
009:015 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.