Amos 1:3–2:6

³Thus says the Lord:

“For three transgressions of Damascus,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment;

because they have threshed Gilead

with threshing sledges of iron.

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

and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.

⁵I will break the bar of Damascus,

and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven,

and him that holds the scepter from Beth-eden;

and the people of Syria 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;

because they carried into exile a whole people

to deliver them up to Edom.

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

and it shall devour her strongholds.

⁸I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod,

and him that 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;

because they delivered up a whole people to Edom,

and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.

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

and it shall devour her strongholds.”

¹¹Thus says the Lord:

“For three transgressions of Edom,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment;

because he pursued his brother with the sword,

and cast off all pity,

and his anger tore perpetually,

and he kept his wrath for ever.

¹²So I will send a fire upon 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;

because they have ripped up women with child in Gilead,

that they might enlarge their border.

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

and it shall devour her strongholds,

with shouting in the day of battle,

with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;

¹⁵and their king shall go into exile,

he and his princes together,”

says the Lord.

Chapter 2

¹Thus says the Lord:

“For three transgressions of Moab,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment;

because he burned to lime

the bones of the king of Edom.

²So I will send a fire upon Moab,

and it shall devour the strongholds of Kerioth,

and Moab shall die amid uproar,

amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet;

³I will cut off the ruler from its midst,

and will slay all its princes with him,”

says the Lord.

⁴Thus says the Lord:

“For three transgressions of Judah,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment;

because they have rejected the law of the Lord,

and have not kept his statutes,

but their lies have led them astray,

after which their fathers walked.

⁵So I will send a fire upon Judah,

and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.”

⁶Thus says the Lord:

“For three transgressions of Israel,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment;

because they sell the righteous for silver,

and the needy for a pair of shoes—