*The words of Amos, awho was among the herdmen of bTekoa, which he saw concerning Israel cin the days of dUzziah king of Judah, and in the days of e*Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before fthe earthquake. 2 And he said,

gThe Lord will roar from Zion,

gAnd utter his voice from Jerusalem;

And hthe habitations of the shepherds shall mourn,

And ithe top of jkCarmel shall wither.

3  Thus saith the Lord;

lFor three transgressions of mDamascus,

l||And for four, I will not ||turn away the punishment thereof;

oBecause they have threshed jpGilead with qthreshing instruments of iron:

4  rBut I will send a fire into the house of sHazael,

rWhich shall devour the palaces of sBen-hadad.

5  I will break also tthe bar of mDamascus,

And cut off the inhabitant from ||uthe plain of uuAven,

And vhim that holdeth the sceptre from ||the house of wEden:

And †xthe people of Syria shall go into captivity xunto yKir, saith the Lord.

6  Thus saith the Lord;

lFor three transgressions of zaGaza,

lAnd for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;

bBecause they ||carried away captive the whole captivity,

cTo deliver them up dto Edom:

7  eBut I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza,

eWhich shall devour the palaces thereof:

8  And I will cut off the inhabitant from afAshdod,

And ghim that holdeth the sceptre from ahAshkelon,

And I will iturn mine hand against akEkron:

And blthe remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord God.

9  Thus saith the Lord;

mFor three transgressions of nTyrus,

mAnd for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;

oBecause they delivered up the whole captivity dto Edom,

And remembered not †pthe brotherly covenant:

10  eBut I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus,

eWhich shall devour the palaces thereof.

11  Thus saith the Lord;

mFor three transgressions of qrEdom,

mAnd for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;

qBecause he did pursue shis brother twith the sword,

And †did cast off all pity,

And this anger did tear perpetually,

And he kept his wrath for ever:

12  eBut I will send a fire upon vTeman,

eWhich shall devour the palaces of wBozrah.

13  Thus saith the Lord;

mFor three transgressions of the children of rxAmmon,

mAnd for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;

Because ythey have ||ripped up the women with child of Gilead,

xThat they might enlarge their border:

14  eBut zI will kindle a fire in the wall of aRabbah,

eAnd it shall devour the palaces thereof,

bWith shouting in the day of battle,

With a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:

15  And ctheir king shall go into captivity,

cHe and his princes together, saith the Lord.

2 Thus saith the Lord;

aFor three transgressions of bMoab,

aAnd for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;

cBecause he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

2  dBut I will send a fire upon Moab,

dAnd it shall devour the palaces of eKerioth:

And Moab shall die with ftumult,

gWith shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:

3  And I will cut off hthe judge from the midst thereof,

And will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the Lord.

4  Thus saith the Lord;

aFor three transgressions of Judah,

aAnd for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;

iBecause they have despised the law of the Lord,

And ihave not kept his commandments,

And ktheir lies caused them to err,

lAfter the which their fathers have walked:

5  dBut mI will send a fire upon Judah,

dAnd mit shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

6  Thus saith the Lord;

aFor three transgressions of Israel,

aAnd for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;

Because nthey sold the righteous ofor silver,

oAnd the poor for a pair of shoes;

7  pThat pant after qthe dust of the earth on the head of the poor,

And rturn aside the way of the meek:

And sa man and his father will go in unto the same ||maid,

tTo profane my holy name:

8  And they lay themselves down upon uclothes laid to pledge vby every altar,

And they drink the wine of ||wthe condemned vin the house of their god.

9  Yet xdestroyed I the Amorite before them,

yWhose height was like the height of the cedars,

And he was strong as yythe oaks;

Yet zI destroyed his fruit from above,

And zhis roots from beneath.

10  Also aI brought you up from the land of Egypt,

And bled you forty years through the wilderness,

cTo possess the land of the Amorite.

11  And I raised up of your sons for prophets,

And of your young men for dNazarites.

Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the Lord.

12  But eye gave the Nazarites wine to drink;

And commanded the prophets, fsaying, Prophesy not.

13  Behold, ||hI am pressed under you,

As a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.

14  Therefore ithe flight shall perish from jkthe swift,

And jlthe strong shall not strengthen his force,

mNeither shall the mighty deliver †himself:

15  Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow;

And he that is knswift of foot shall not deliver himself:

joNeither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.

16  And he that is †courageous among pthe mighty

Shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.