AMOS
Amos 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.
2 And he said, Yahweh will roar from
3 Thus saith Yahweh; For three transgressions of
4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael,
which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.
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
6 Thus saith Yahweh; 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 Yahweh.
9 Thus saith Yahweh; For three transgressions of Tyrus,
and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they
delivered up the whole captivity to
10 But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which
shall devour the palaces thereof.
11 Thus saith Yahweh; 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 Yahweh; 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
Yahweh.
1 Thus saith Yahweh; 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 Kirioth: 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 Yahweh.
4 Thus saith Yahweh; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will
not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they have despised the law of
Yahweh, 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 Yahweh; 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
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
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 Yahweh.
1 Hear this word that Yahweh 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 Yahweh hath
not done [it]?
7 Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, but He revealeth
His secret unto His servants the prophets.
8 The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord
Yahweh 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 Yahweh, who store up violence and
robbery in their palaces.
11 Therefore thus saith the Lord Yahweh; 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 Yahweh; 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 Yahweh, 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 Yahweh.
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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh.
4 Come to
5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim [and] publish
the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye
children of
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 Yahweh.
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 Yahweh.
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 Yahweh.
10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of
11 I have overthrown [some] of you, as God overthrew
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, Yahweh, the God of hosts, [is] His name.
1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, [even] a lamentation, O
house of
2 The virgin of
3 For thus saith the Lord Yahweh; 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 Yahweh unto the house of
5 But seek not
6 Seek Yahweh, 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
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: Yahweh [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 Yahweh, 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 Yahweh, God of hosts, will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
16 Therefore Yahweh, the God of hosts, Yahweh, 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
Yahweh.
18 Woe unto you that desire the day of Yahweh! to what
end [is] it for you? the day of Yahweh [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 Yahweh [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
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
1 Woe to them [that are] at ease in
2 Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye
to Hamath the great: then go down to
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 Yahweh hath sworn by Himself, saith Yahweh, 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 Yahweh.
11 For, behold, Yahweh 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
1 Thus hath the Lord Yahweh 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 Yahweh, forgive, I beseech Thee: by whom shall
Jacob arise? for he [is] small.
3 Yahweh repented for this: It shall not be, saith Yahweh.
4 Thus hath the Lord Yahweh shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord Yahweh called
to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
5 Then said I, O Lord Yahweh, cease, I beseech Thee: by whom shall Jacob arise?
for he [is] small.
6 Yahweh repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord Yahweh.
7 Thus He shewed me: and, behold, Yahweh stood upon a wall [made] by a plumbline, with a plumbline in
His hand.
8 And Yahweh said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And
I said, A plumbline. Then said
Yahweh, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst
of My people
9 And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of
10 Then Amaziah the priest of
11 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and
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 Yahweh took me as I followed the flock, and Yahweh said unto me, Go,
prophesy unto My people Israel.
16 Now therefore hear thou the word of Yahweh: Thou sayest,
Prophesy not against
17 Therefore thus saith Yahweh; 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
1 Thus hath the Lord Yahweh 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 Yahweh unto me, The end is come upon My people of
3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in
that day, saith the Lord Yahweh: [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 Yahweh 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
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord Yahweh, 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 Yahweh, 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 Yahweh:
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 Yahweh, 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
1 I saw Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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
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: Yahweh [is] His name.
7 [Are] ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto Me, O children of
8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh [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 Yahweh.
9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of
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 Yahweh That doeth this.
13 Behold, the days come, saith Yahweh, 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
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 Yahweh thy God.