Amos 1

¹The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of King Uzziah of Judah and in the days of King Jeroboam son of Joash of Israel, two years^a before the earthquake.^*

Judgment on Israel’s Neighbors

²And he said:

The Lord roars from Zion

and utters his voice from Jerusalem;

the pastures of the shepherds wither,

and the top of Carmel dries up.^*

³Thus says the Lord:

For three transgressions of Damascus,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,^b

because they have threshed Gilead

with threshing sledges of iron.^*

⁴So I will send a fire on the house of Hazael,

and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.^*

⁵I will break the gate bars of Damascus

and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven

and the one who holds the scepter from Beth-eden,

and the people of Aram shall go into exile to Kir,

says the Lord.^*

⁶Thus says the Lord:

For three transgressions of Gaza,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,^c

because they carried into exile entire communities,

to hand them over to Edom.^*

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

and it shall devour its strongholds.

⁸I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod

and the one who holds the scepter from Ashkelon;

I will turn my hand against Ekron,

and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,

says the Lord God.^*

⁹Thus says the Lord:

For three transgressions of Tyre,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,^d

because they delivered entire communities over to Edom

and did not remember the covenant of kinship.^*

¹⁰So I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre,

and it shall devour its strongholds.^*

¹¹Thus says the Lord:

For three transgressions of Edom,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,^e

because he pursued his brother with the sword

and cast off all pity;

he maintained his anger perpetually^f

and kept his wrath^g forever.^*

¹²So I will send a fire on Teman,

and it shall devour the strongholds of Bozrah.^*

¹³Thus says the Lord:

For three transgressions of the Ammonites,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,^h

because they have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead

in order to enlarge their territory.^*

¹⁴So I will kindle a fire against the wall of Rabbah,

and it shall devour its strongholds,

with shouting on the day of battle,

with a storm on the day of the whirlwind;^*

¹⁵then their king shall go into exile,

he and his officials together,

says the Lord.^*