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Amos
Chapter 1
1 The words of Amos,
who was among the herdman 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.
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.
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:
4 But I will send a fire
into the house of Hazael, which
shall devour the palaces of
Ben-hadad.
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.
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:
7 But I will send a fire
on the wall of Gaza, which shall
devour the palaces thereof:
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.
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:
10 But I will send a fire
on the wall of Tyrus, which shall
devour the palaces thereof.
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:
12 But I will send a fire
upon Teman, which shall devour
the palaces of Bozrah.
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:
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:
15 And their king shall go
into captivity, he and his
princes together, saith the
LORD.
Chapter 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 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:
3 And I will cut off the
judge from the midst thereof, and
will slay all the princes thereof
with him, saith the LORD.
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:
5 But I will send a fire
upon Judah, and it shall devour
the palaces of Jerusalem.
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;
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
12 But ye gave the
Nazarites wine to drink; and
commanded the prophets, saying,
Prophesy not.
13 Behold, I am pressed
under you, as a cart is pressed
that is full of sheaves.
14 Therefore the flight
shall perish from the swift, and
the strong shall not strengthen
his force, neither shall the
mighty deliver himself:
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.
16 And he that is
courageous among the mighty shall
flee away naked in that day,
saith the LORD.
Chapter 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,
2 You only have I known of
all the families of the earth:
therefore I will punish you for
all your iniquities.
3 Can two walk together,
except they be agreed?
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?
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?
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?
7 Surely the Lord GOD will
do nothing, but he revealeth his
secret unto his servants the
prophets.
8 The lion hath roared,
who will not fear? the Lord GOD
hath spoken, who can but
prophesy?
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.
10 For they know not to do
right, saith the LORD, who store
up violence and robbery in their
palaces.
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.
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.
13 Hear ye, and testify in
the house of Jacob, saith the
Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
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.
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.
Chapter 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.
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.
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 Come to Bethel, and
transgress; at Gilgal multiply
transgression; and bring your
sacrifices every morning, and
your tithes after three
years:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Chapter 5
1 Hear ye this word
which I take up against you, even
a lamentation, O house of
Israel.
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.
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.
4 For thus saith the LORD
unto the house of Israel, Seek ye
me, and ye shall live:
5 But seek not Bethel, nor
enter into Gilgal, and pass not
to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall
surely go into captivity, and
Bethel shall come to nought.
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.
7 Ye who turn judgment to
wormwood, and leave off
righteousness in the earth,
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:
9 That strengtheneth the
spoiled against the strong, so
that the spoiled shall come
against the fortress.
10 They hate him that
rebuketh in the gate, and they
abhor him that speaketh
uprightly.
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.
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.
13 Therefore the prudent
shall keep silence in that time;
for it is an evil time.
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.
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.
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.
17 And in all vineyards
shall be wailing: for I will pass
through thee, saith the LORD.
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.
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.
20 Shall not the day of
the LORD be darkness, and not
light? even very dark, and no
brightness in it?
21 I hate, I despise your
feast days, and I will not smell
in your solemn assemblies.
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.
23 Take thou away from me
the noise of thy songs; for I
will not hear the melody of thy
viols.
24 But let judgment run
down as waters, and righteousness
as a mighty stream.
25 Have ye offered unto me
sacrifices and offerings in the
wilderness forty years, O house
of Israel?
26 But ye have borne the
tabernacle of your Moloch and
Chiun your images, the star of
your god, which ye made to
yourselves.
27 Therefore will I cause
you to go into captivity beyond
Damascus, saith the LORD, whose
name is The God of hosts.
Chapter 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!
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?
3 Ye that put far away the
evil day, and cause the seat of
violence to come near;
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;
5 That chant to the sound
of the viol, and invent to
themselves instruments of musick,
like David;
6 That drink wine in
bowls, and anoint themselves with
the chief ointments: but they are
not grieved for the affliction of
Joseph.
7 Therefore now shall they
go captive with the first that go
captive, and the banquet of them
that stretched themselves shall
be removed.
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.
9 And it shall come to
pass, if there remain ten men in
one house, that they shall
die.
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.
11 For, behold, the LORD
commandeth, and he will smite the
great house with breaches, and
the little house with clefts.
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:
13 Ye which rejoice in a
thing of nought, which say, Have
we not taken to us horns by our
own strength?
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 Hamath unto the river of the
wilderness.
Chapter 7
1 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.
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.
3 The LORD repented for
this: It shall not be, saith the
LORD.
4 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.
5 Then said I, O Lord GOD,
cease, I beseech thee: by whom
shall Jacob arise? for he is
small.
6 The LORD repented for
this: This also shall not be,
saith the Lord GOD.
7 Thus he shewed me: and,
behold, the Lord stood upon a
wall made by a plumbline, with a
plumbline in his hand.
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:
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.
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.
11 For thus Amos saith,
Jeroboam shall die by the sword,
and Israel shall surely be led
away captive out of their own
land.
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:
13 But prophesy not again
any more at Bethel: for it is the
king's chapel, and it is the
king's court.
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
sycomore fruit:
15 And the LORD took me as
I followed the flock, and the
LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy
unto my people Israel.
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.
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.
Chapter 8
1 Thus hath the Lord
GOD shewed unto me: and behold a
basket of summer fruit.
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.
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.
4 Hear this, O ye that
swallow up the needy, even to
make the poor of the land to
fail,
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?
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?
7 The LORD hath sworn by
the excellency of Jacob, Surely I
will never forget any of their
works.
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.
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:
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.
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:
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.
13 In that day shall the
fair virgins and young men faint
for thirst.
14 They that swear by the
sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god,
O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of
Beer-sheba liveth; even they
shall fall, and never rise up
again.
Chapter 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.
2 Though they dig into
hell, thence shall mine hand take
them; though they climb up to
heaven, thence will I bring them
down:
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:
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.
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.
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.
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?
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 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.
10 All the sinners of my
people shall die by the sword,
which say, The evil shall not
overtake nor prevent us.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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