Amos
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[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.