AMO 1:1 The words of Amos, who was among the
sheepherders from Tekoa, which he envisioned in
visions concerning 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.
AMO 1:2 And he said, "The Lord roars from
Zion, And from Jerusalem He utters His voice; And
the shepherds' pasture grounds mourn, And the summit
of Carmel dries up."
AMO 1:3 Thus says the Lord, "For three
transgressions of Damascus and for four I will not
revoke its punishment, Because they threshed Gilead
with implements of sharp iron.
AMO 1:4 "So I will send fire upon the house
of Hazael, And it will consume the citadels of Ben-hadad.
AMO 1:5 "I will also break the gate bar of
Damascus, And cut off the inhabitant from the valley
of Aven, And him who holds the scepter, from Beth-eden;
So the people of Aram will go exiled to Kir," Says
the Lord.
AMO 1:6 Thus says the Lord, "For three
transgressions of Gaza and for four I will not
revoke its punishment, Because they deported an
entire population To deliver it up to Edom.
AMO 1:7 "So I will send fire upon the wall of
Gaza, And it will consume her citadels.
AMO 1:8 "I will also cut off the inhabitant
from Ashdod, And him who holds the scepter, from
Ashkelon; I will even unleash My power upon Ekron,
And the remnant of the Philistines will perish,"
Says the Lord God.
AMO 1:9 Thus says the Lord, "For three
transgressions of Tyre and for four I will not
revoke its punishment, Because they delivered up an
entire population to Edom And did not remember the
covenant of brotherhood.
AMO 1:10 "So I will send fire upon the wall
of Tyre, And it will consume her citadels."
AMO 1:11 Thus says the Lord, "For three
transgressions of Edom and for four I will not
revoke its punishment, Because he pursued his
brother with the sword, While he stifled his
compassion; His anger also tore continually, And he
maintained his fury forever.
AMO 1:12 "So I will send fire upon Teman, And
it will consume the citadels of Bozrah."
AMO 1:13 Thus says the Lord, "For three
transgressions of the sons of Ammon and for four I
will not revoke its punishment, Because they ripped
open the pregnant women of Gilead In order to
enlarge their borders.
AMO 1:14 "So I will kindle a fire on the wall
of Rabbah, And it will consume her citadels Amid war
cries on the day of battle And a storm on the day of
tempest.
AMO 1:15 "Their king will go into exile, He
and his princes together," says the Lord.
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AMO 2:1 Thus says the Lord, "For three
transgressions of Moab and for four I will not
revoke its punishment, Because he burned the bones
of the king of Edom to lime.
AMO 2:2 "So I will send fire upon Moab, And
it will consume the citadels of Kerioth; And Moab
will die amid tumult, With war cries and the sound
of a trumpet.
AMO 2:3 "I will also cut off the judge from
her midst, And slay all her princes with him," says
the Lord.
AMO 2:4 Thus says the Lord, "For three
transgressions of Judah and for four I will not
revoke its punishment, Because they rejected the law
of the Lord And have not kept His statutes; Their
lies also have led them astray, Those after which
their fathers walked.
AMO 2:5 "So I will send fire upon Judah, And
it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem."
AMO 2:6 Thus says the Lord, "For three
transgressions of Israel and for four I will not
revoke its punishment, Because they sell the
righteous for money And the needy for a pair of
sandals.
AMO 2:7 "These who pant after the very dust
of the earth on the head of the helpless Also turn
aside the way of the humble; And a man and his
father resort to the same girl In order to profane
My holy name.
AMO 2:8 "And on garments taken as pledges
they stretch out beside every altar, And in the
house of their God they drink the wine of those who
have been fined.
AMO 2:9 "Yet it was I who destroyed the
Amorite before them, Though his height was like the
height of cedars And he was strong as the oaks; I
even destroyed his fruit above and his root below.
AMO 2:10 "And it was I who brought you up
from the land of Egypt, And I led you in the
wilderness forty years That you might take
possession of the land of the Amorite.
AMO 2:11 "Then I raised up some of your sons
to be prophets And some of your young men to be
Nazirites. Is this not so, O sons of Israel?"
declares the Lord.
AMO 2:12 "But you made the Nazirites drink
wine, And you commanded the prophets saying, 'You
shall not prophesy!'
AMO 2:13 "Behold, I am weighted down beneath
you As a wagon is weighted down when filled with
sheaves.
AMO 2:14 "Flight will perish from the swift,
And the stalwart will not strengthen his power, Nor
the mighty man save his life.
AMO 2:15 "He who grasps the bow will not
stand his ground, The swift of foot will not escape,
Nor will he who rides the horse save his life.
AMO 2:16 "Even the bravest among the warriors
will flee naked in that day," declares the Lord.
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AMO 3:1 Hear this word which the Lord has
spoken against you, sons of Israel, against the
entire family which He brought up from the land of
Egypt,
AMO 3:2 "You only have I chosen among all the
families of the earth; Therefore, I will punish you
for all your iniquities."
AMO 3:3 Do two men walk together unless they
have made an appointment?
AMO 3:4 Does a lion roar in the forest when
he has no prey? Does a young lion growl from his den
unless he has captured something?
AMO 3:5 Does a bird fall into a trap on the
ground when there is no bait in it? Does a trap
spring up from the earth when it captures nothing at
all?
AMO 3:6 If a trumpet is blown in a city will
not the people tremble? If a calamity occurs in a
city has not the Lord done it?
AMO 3:7 Surely the Lord God does nothing
Unless He reveals His secret counsel To His servants
the prophets.
AMO 3:8 A lion has roared! Who will not fear?
The Lord God has spoken! Who can but prophesy?
AMO 3:9 Proclaim on the citadels in Ashdod
and on the citadels in the land of Egypt and say,
"Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria and
see the great tumults within her and the oppressions
in her midst.
AMO 3:10 "But they do not know how to do what
is right," declares the Lord, "these who hoard up
violence and devastation in their citadels."
AMO 3:11 Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
"An enemy, even one surrounding the land, Will pull
down your strength from you And your citadels will
be looted."
AMO 3:12 Thus says the Lord, "Just as the
shepherd snatches from the lion's mouth a couple of
legs or a piece of an ear, So will the sons of
Israel dwelling in Samaria be snatched away - - With
the corner of a bed and the cover of a couch!
AMO 3:13 "Hear and testify against the house
of Jacob," Declares the Lord God, the God of hosts.
AMO 3:14 "For on the day that I punish
Israel's transgressions, I will also punish the
altars of Bethel; The horns of the altar will be cut
off, And they will fall to the ground.
AMO 3:15 "I will also smite the winter house
together with the summer house; The houses of ivory
will also perish And the great houses will come to
an end," Declares the Lord.
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AMO 4:1 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan
who are on the mountain of Samaria, Who oppress the
poor, who crush the needy, Who say to your husbands,
"Bring now, that we may drink!"
AMO 4:2 The Lord God has sworn by His
holiness, "Behold, the days are coming upon you When
they will take you away with meat hooks, And the
last of you with fish hooks.
AMO 4:3 "You will go out through breaches in
the walls, Each one straight before her, And you
will be cast to Harmon," declares the Lord.
AMO 4:4 "Enter Bethel and transgress; In
Gilgal multiply transgression! Bring your sacrifices
every morning, Your tithes every three days.
AMO 4:5 "Offer a thank offering also from
that which is leavened, And proclaim freewill
offerings, make them known. For so you love to do,
you sons of Israel," Declares the Lord God.
AMO 4:6 "But I gave you also cleanness of
teeth in all your cities And lack of bread in all
your places, Yet you have not returned to Me,"
declares the Lord.
AMO 4:7 "And furthermore, I withheld the rain
from you While there were still three months until
harvest. Then I would send rain on one city And on
another city I would not send rain; One part would
be rained on, While the part not rained on would dry
up.
AMO 4:8 "So two or three cities would stagger
to another city to drink water, But would not be
satisfied; Yet you have not returned to Me,"
declares the Lord.
AMO 4:9 "I smote you with scorching wind and
mildew; And the caterpillar was devouring Your many
gardens and vineyards, fig trees and olive trees;
Yet you have not returned to Me," declares the Lord.
AMO 4:10 "I sent a plague among you after the
manner of Egypt; I slew your young men by the sword
along with your captured horses, And I made the
stench of your camp rise up in your nostrils; Yet
you have not returned to Me," declares the Lord.
AMO 4:11 "I overthrew you as God overthrew
Sodom and Gomorrah, And you were like a firebrand
snatched from a blaze; Yet you have not returned to
Me," declares the Lord.
AMO 4:12 "Therefore, thus I will do to you, O
Israel; Because I shall do this to you, Prepare to
meet your God, O Israel."
AMO 4:13 For behold, He who forms mountains
and creates the wind And declares to man what are
His thoughts, He who makes dawn into darkness And
treads on the high places of the earth, The Lord God
of hosts is His name.
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AMO 5:1 Hear this word which I take up for
you as a dirge, O house of Israel.
AMO 5:2 She has fallen, she will not rise
again - - The virgin Israel. She lies neglected on
her land; There is none to raise her up.
AMO 5:3 For thus says the Lord God, "The city
which goes forth a thousand strong Will have a
hundred left, And the one which goes forth a hundred
strong Will have ten left to the house of Israel."
AMO 5:4 For thus says the Lord to the house
of Israel, "Seek Me that you may live.
AMO 5:5 "But do not resort to Bethel, And do
not come to Gilgal, Nor cross over to Beersheba; For
Gilgal will certainly go into captivity, And Bethel
will come to trouble.
AMO 5:6 "Seek the Lord that you may live,
Lest He break forth like a fire, O house of Joseph,
And it consume with none to quench it for Bethel,
AMO 5:7 For those who turn justice into
wormwood And cast righteousness down to the earth."
AMO 5:8 He who made the Pleiades and Orion
And changes deep darkness into morning, Who also
darkens day into night, Who calls for the waters of
the sea And pours them out on the surface of the
earth, The Lord is His name.
AMO 5:9 It is He who flashes forth with
destruction upon the strong, So that destruction
comes upon the fortress.
AMO 5:10 They hate him who reproves in the
gate, And they abhor him who speaks with integrity.
AMO 5:11 Therefore, because you impose heavy
rent on the poor And exact a tribute of grain from
them, Though you have built houses of well-hewn
stone, Yet you will not live in them; You have
planted pleasant vineyards, yet you will not drink
their wine.
AMO 5:12 For I know your transgressions are
many and your sins are great, You who distress the
righteous and accept bribes, And turn aside the poor
in the gate.
AMO 5:13 Therefore, at such a time the
prudent person keeps silent, for it is an evil time.
AMO 5:14 Seek good and not evil, that you may
live; And thus may the Lord God of hosts be with
you, Just as you have said!
AMO 5:15 Hate evil, love good, And establish
justice in the gate! Perhaps the Lord God of hosts
May be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
AMO 5:16 Therefore, thus says the Lord God of
hosts, the Lord, "There is wailing in all the
plazas, And in all the streets they say, 'Alas!
Alas!' They also call the farmer to mourning And
professional mourners to lamentation.
AMO 5:17 "And in all the vineyards there is
wailing, Because I shall pass through the midst of
you," says the Lord.
AMO 5:18 Alas, you who are longing for the
day of the Lord, For what purpose will the day of
the Lord be to you? It will be darkness and not
light;
AMO 5:19 As when a man flees from a lion, And
a bear meets him, Or goes home, leans his hand
against the wall, And a snake bites him.
AMO 5:20 Will not the day of the Lord be
darkness instead of light, Even gloom with no
brightness in it?
AMO 5:21 "I hate, I reject your festivals,
Nor do I delight in your solemn assemblies.
AMO 5:22 "Even though you offer up to Me
burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not
accept them; And I will not even look at the peace
offerings of your fatlings.
AMO 5:23 "Take away from Me the noise of your
songs; I will not even listen to the sound of your
harps.
AMO 5:24 "But let justice roll down like
waters And righteousness like an ever-flowing
stream.
AMO 5:25 "Did you present Me with sacrifices
and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty
years, O house of Israel?
AMO 5:26 "You also carried along Sikkuth your
king and Kiyyun, your images, the star of your gods
which you made for yourselves.
AMO 5:27 "Therefore, I will make you go into
exile beyond Damascus," says the Lord, whose name is
the God of hosts.
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AMO 6:1 Woe to those who are at ease in Zion,
And to those who feel secure in the mountain of
Samaria, The distinguished men of the foremost of
nations, To whom the house of Israel comes.
AMO 6:2 Go over to Calneh and look, And go
from there to Hamath the great, Then go down to Gath
of the Philistines. Are they better than these
kingdoms, Or is their territory greater than yours?
AMO 6:3 Do you put off the day of calamity,
And would you bring near the seat of violence?
AMO 6:4 Those who recline on beds of ivory
And sprawl on their couches, And eat lambs from the
flock And calves from the midst of the stall,
AMO 6:5 Who improvise to the sound of the
harp, And like David have composed songs for
themselves,
AMO 6:6 Who drink wine from sacrificial bowls
While they anoint themselves with the finest of
oils, Yet they have not grieved over the ruin of
Joseph.
AMO 6:7 Therefore, they will now go into
exile at the head of the exiles, And the sprawlers'
banqueting will pass away.
AMO 6:8 The Lord God has sworn by Himself,
the Lord God of hosts has declared: "I loathe the
arrogance of Jacob, And I detest his citadels;
Therefore, I will deliver up the city and all it
contains."
AMO 6:9 And it will be, if ten men are left
in one house, they will die.
AMO 6:10 Then one's uncle, or his undertaker,
will lift him up to carry out his bones from the
house, and he will say to the one who is in the
innermost part of the house, "Is anyone else with
you?" And that one will say, "No one." Then he will
answer," Keep quiet. For the name of the Lord is not
to be mentioned."
AMO 6:11 For behold, the Lord is going to
command that the great house be smashed to pieces
and the small house to fragments.
AMO 6:12 Do horses run on rocks? Or does one
plow them with oxen? Yet you have turned justice
into poison, And the fruit of righteousness into
wormwood,
AMO 6:13 You who rejoice in Lo-debar, And
say, "Have we not by our own strength taken Karnaim
for ourselves?"
AMO 6:14 "For behold, I am going to raise up
a nation against you, O house of Israel," declares
the Lord God of hosts, "And they will afflict you
from the entrance of Hamath To the brook of the
Arabah."
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AMO 7:1 Thus the Lord God showed me, and
behold, He was forming a locust-swarm when the
spring crop began to sprout. And behold, the spring
crop was after the king's mowing.
AMO 7:2 And it came about, when it had
finished eating the vegetation of the land, that I
said, "Lord God, please pardon! How can Jacob stand,
For he is small?"
AMO 7:3 The Lord changed His mind about
this."It shall not be," said the Lord.
AMO 7:4 Thus the Lord God showed me, and
behold, the Lord God was calling to contend with
them by fire, and it consumed the great deep and
began to consume the farm land.
AMO 7:5 Then I said, "Lord God, please stop!
How can Jacob stand, for he is small?"
AMO 7:6 The Lord changed His mind about
this."This too shall not be," said the Lord God.
AMO 7:7 Thus He showed me, and behold, the
Lord was standing by a vertical wall, with a plumb
line in His hand.
AMO 7:8 And the Lord said to me, "What do you
see, Amos?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then the
Lord said, "Behold I am about to put a plumb line In
the midst of My people Israel. I will spare them no
longer.
AMO 7:9 "The high places of Isaac will be
desolated And the sanctuaries of Israel laid waste.
Then shall I rise up against the house of Jeroboam
with the sword."
AMO 7:10 Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel,
sent word to Jeroboam, king of Israel, saying, "Amos
has conspired against you in the midst of the house
of Israel; the land is unable to endure all his
words.
AMO 7:11 "For thus Amos says, 'Jeroboam will
die by the sword and Israel will certainly go from
its land into exile.'"
AMO 7:12 Then Amaziah said to Amos, "Go, you
seer, flee away to the land of Judah, and there eat
bread and there do your prophesying!
AMO 7:13 "But no longer prophesy at Bethel,
for it is a sanctuary of the king and a royal
residence."
AMO 7:14 Then Amos answered and said to
Amaziah, "I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a
prophet; for I am a herdsman and a grower of
sycamore figs.
AMO 7:15 "But the Lord took me from following
the flock and the Lord said to me, 'Go prophesy to
My people Israel.'
AMO 7:16 "And now hear the word of the Lord:
you are saying, 'You shall not prophesy against
Israel nor shall you speak against the house of
Isaac.'
AMO 7:17 "Therefore, thus says the Lord,
'Your wife will become a harlot in the city, your
sons and your daughters will fall by the sword, your
land will be parceled up by a measuring line, and
you yourself will die upon unclean soil. Moreover,
Israel will certainly go from its land into exile.'"
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AMO 8:1 Thus the Lord God showed me, and
behold, there was a basket of summer fruit.
AMO 8:2 And He said, "What do you see, Amos?"
And I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the
Lord said to me, "The end has come for My people
Israel. I will spare them no longer.
AMO 8:3 "The songs of the palace will turn to
wailing in that day," declares the Lord God."Many
will be the corpses; in every place they will cast
them forth in silence."
AMO 8:4 Hear this, you who trample the needy,
to do away with the humble of the land,
AMO 8:5 saying, "When will the new moon be
over, So that we may sell grain, And the sabbath,
that we may open the wheat market, To make the
bushel smaller and the shekel bigger, And to cheat
with dishonest scales,
AMO 8:6 So as to buy the helpless for money
And the needy for a pair of sandals, And that we may
sell the refuse of the wheat?"
AMO 8:7 The Lord has sworn by the pride of
Jacob, "Indeed, I will never forget any of their
deeds.
AMO 8:8 "Because of this will not the land
quake And everyone who dwells in it mourn? Indeed,
all of it will rise up like the Nile, And it will be
tossed about, And subside like the Nile of Egypt.
AMO 8:9 "And it will come about in that day,"
declares the Lord God, "That I shall make the sun go
down at noon And make the earth dark in broad
daylight.
AMO 8:10 "Then I shall turn your festivals
into mourning And all your songs into lamentation;
And I will bring sackcloth on everyone's loins And
baldness on every head. And I will make it like a
time of mourning for an only son, And the end of it
will be like a bitter day.
AMO 8:11 "Behold, days are coming," declares
the Lord God, "When I will send a famine on the
land, Not a famine for bread or a thirst for water,
But rather for hearing the words of the Lord.
AMO 8:12 "And people will stagger from sea to
sea, And from the north even to the east; They will
go to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, But they
will not find it.
AMO 8:13 "In that day the beautiful virgins
And the young men will faint from thirst.
AMO 8:14 "As for those who swear by the guilt
of Samaria, Who say, 'As your god lives, O Dan,'
And, 'As the way of Beersheba lives,' They will fall
and not rise again."
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AMO 9:1 I saw the Lord standing beside the
altar, and He said, "Smite the capitals so that the
thresholds will shake, And break them on the heads
of them all! Then I will slay the rest of them with
the sword; They will not have a fugitive who will
flee, Or a refugee who will escape.
AMO 9:2 "Though they dig into Sheol, From
there shall My hand take them; And though they
ascend to heaven, From there will I bring them down.
AMO 9:3 "And though they hide on the summit
of Carmel, I will search them out and take them from
there; And though they conceal themselves from My
sight on the floor of the sea, From there I will
command the serpent and it will bite them.
AMO 9:4 "And though they go into captivity
before their enemies, From there I will command the
sword that it slay them, And I will set My eyes
against them for evil and not for good."
AMO 9:5 And the Lord God of hosts, The One
who touches the land so that it melts, And all those
who dwell in it mourn, And all of it rises up like
the Nile And subsides like the Nile of Egypt;
AMO 9:6 The One who builds His upper chambers
in the heavens, And has founded His vaulted dome
over the earth, He who calls for the waters of the
sea And pours them out on the face of the earth, The
Lord is His name.
AMO 9:7 "Are you not as the sons of Ethiopia
to Me, O sons of Israel?" declares the Lord."Have I
not brought up Israel from the land of Egypt, And
the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from
Kir?
AMO 9:8 "Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are
on the sinful kingdom, And I will destroy it from
the face of the earth; Nevertheless, I will not
totally destroy the house of Jacob," Declares the
Lord.
AMO 9:9 "For behold, I am commanding, And I
will shake the house of Israel among all nations As
grain is shaken in a sieve, But not a kernel will
fall to the ground.
AMO 9:10 "All the sinners of My people will
die by the sword, Those who say, 'The calamity will
not overtake or confront us.'
AMO 9:11 "In that day I will raise up the
fallen booth of David, And wall up its breaches; I
will also raise up its ruins, And rebuild it as in
the days of old;
AMO 9:12 That they may possess the remnant of
Edom And all the nations who are called by My name,
"Declares the Lord who does this.
AMO 9:13 "Behold, days are coming," declares
the Lord, "When the plowman will overtake the reaper
And the treader of grapes him who sows seed; When
the mountains will drip sweet wine, And all the
hills will be dissolved.
AMO 9:14 "Also I will restore the captivity
of My people Israel, And they will rebuild the
ruined cities and live in them, They will also plant
vineyards and drink their wine, And make gardens and
eat their fruit.
AMO 9:15 "I will also plant them on their
land, And they will not again be rooted out from
their land Which I have given them," Says the Lord
your God.
