1:1 The words of sceptre from the Amos, who was house of Eden: among the herdmen and the people of of Tekoa, which Syria shall go he saw concerning into captivity Israel in the unto Kir, saith days of Uzziah the LORD. king of Judah, 1:6 Thus saith and in the days the LORD; For of Jeroboam the three son of Joash king transgressions of of Israel, two Gaza, and for years before the four, I will not earthquake. turn away [the 1:2 And he said, punishment] The LORD will thereof; because roar from Zion, they carried away and utter his captive the whole voice from captivity, to Jerusalem; and deliver [them] up the habitations to Edom: of the shepherds 1:7 But I will shall mourn, and send a fire on the top of Carmel the wall of Gaza, shall wither. which shall 1:3 Thus saith devour the the LORD; For palaces thereof: three 1:8 And I will transgressions of cut off the Damascus, and for inhabitant from four, I will not Ashdod, and him turn away [the that holdeth the punishment] sceptre from thereof; because Ashkelon, and I they have will turn mine threshed Gilead hand against with threshing Ekron: and the instruments of remnant of the iron: Philistines shall 1:4 But I will perish, saith the send a fire into Lord GOD. the house of 1:9 Thus saith Hazael, which the LORD; For shall devour the three palaces of transgressions of Benhadad. Tyrus, and for 1:5 I will break four, I will not also the bar of turn away [the Damascus, and cut punishment] off the thereof; because inhabitant from they delivered up the plain of the whole Aven, and him captivity to that holdeth the Edom, and remembered not palaces thereof, the brotherly with shouting in covenant: the day of 1:10 But I will battle, with a send a fire on tempest in the the wall of day of the Tyrus, which whirlwind: shall devour the 1:15 And their palaces thereof. king shall go 1:11 Thus saith into captivity, the LORD; For he and his three princes together, transgressions of saith the LORD. Edom, and for 2:1 Thus saith four, I will not the LORD; For turn away [the three punishment] transgressions of thereof; because Moab, and for he did pursue his four, I will not brother with the turn away [the sword, and did punishment] cast off all thereof; because pity, and his he burned the anger did tear bones of the king perpetually, and of Edom into he kept his wrath lime: for ever: 2:2 But I will 1:12 But I will send a fire upon send a fire upon Moab, and it Teman, which shall devour the shall devour the palaces of palaces of Kirioth: and Moab Bozrah. shall die with 1:13 Thus saith tumult, with the LORD; For shouting, [and] three with the sound of transgressions of the trumpet: the children of 2:3 And I will Ammon, and for cut off the judge four, I will not from the midst turn away [the thereof, and will punishment] slay all the thereof; because princes thereof they have ripped with him, saith up the women with the LORD. child of Gilead, 2:4 Thus saith that they might the LORD; For enlarge their three border: transgressions of 1:14 But I will Judah, and for kindle a fire in four, I will not the wall of turn away [the Rabbah, and it punishment] shall devour the thereof; because they have Amorite before despised the law them, whose of the LORD, and height [was] like have not kept his the height of the commandments, and cedars, and he their lies caused [was] strong as them to err, the oaks; yet I after the which destroyed his their fathers fruit from above, have walked: and his roots 2:5 But I will from beneath. send a fire upon 2:10 Also I Judah, and it brought you up shall devour the from the land of palaces of Egypt, and led Jerusalem. you forty years 2:6 Thus saith through the the LORD; For wilderness, to three possess the land transgressions of of the Amorite. Israel, and for 2:11 And I four, I will not raised up of your turn away [the sons for punishment] prophets, and of thereof; because your young men they sold the for Nazarites. righteous for [Is it] not even silver, and the thus, O ye poor for a pair children of of shoes; Israel? saith the 2:7 That pant LORD. after the dust of 2:12 But ye gave the earth on the the Nazarites head of the poor, wine to drink; and turn aside and commanded the the way of the prophets, saying, meek: and a man Prophesy not. and his father 2:13 Behold, I will go in unto am pressed under the [same] maid, you, as a cart is to profane my pressed [that is] holy name: full of sheaves. 2:8 And they lay 2:14 Therefore [themselves] down the flight shall upon clothes laid perish from the to pledge by swift, and the every altar, and strong shall not they drink the strengthen his wine of the force, neither condemned [in] shall the mighty the house of deliver himself: their god. 2:15 Neither 2:9 Yet shall he stand destroyed I the that handleth the bow; and [he that all? is] swift of foot 3:6 Shall a shall not deliver trumpet be blown [himself]: in the city, and neither shall he the people not be that rideth the afraid? shall horse deliver there be evil in himself. a city, and the 2:16 And [he LORD hath not that is] done [it]? courageous among 3:7 Surely the the mighty shall Lord GOD will do flee away naked nothing, but he in that day, revealeth his saith the LORD. secret unto his 3:1 Hear this servants the word that the prophets. LORD hath spoken 3:8 The lion against you, O hath roared, who children of will not fear? Israel, against the Lord GOD hath the whole family spoken, who can which I brought but prophesy? up from the land 3:9 Publish in of Egypt, saying, the palaces at Ashdod, and in 3:2 You only the palaces in have I known of the land of all the families Egypt, and say, of the earth: Assemble therefore I will yourselves upon punish you for the mountains of all your Samaria, and iniquities. behold the great 3:3 Can two walk tumults in the together, except midst thereof, they be agreed? and the oppressed 3:4 Will a lion in the midst roar in the thereof. forest, when he 3:10 For they hath no prey? know not to do will a young lion right, saith the cry out of his LORD, who store den, if he have up violence and taken nothing? robbery in their 3:5 Can a bird palaces. fall in a snare 3:11 Therefore upon the earth, thus saith the where no gin [is] Lord GOD; An for him? shall adversary [there [one] take up a shall be] even snare from the round about the earth, and have land; and he taken nothing at shall bring down thy strength from oppress the poor, thee, and thy which crush the palaces shall be needy, which say spoiled. to their masters, 3:12 Thus saith Bring, and let us the LORD; As the drink. shepherd taketh 4:2 The Lord GOD out of the mouth hath sworn by his of the lion two holiness, that, legs, or a piece lo, the days of an ear; so shall come upon shall the you, that he will children of take you away Israel be taken with hooks, and out that dwell in your posterity Samaria in the with fishhooks. corner of a bed, 4:3 And ye shall and in Damascus go out at the [in] a couch. breaches, every 3:13 Hear ye, [cow at that and testify in which is] before the house of her; and ye shall Jacob, saith the cast [them] into Lord GOD, the God the palace, saith of hosts, the LORD. 3:14 That in the 4:4 Come to day that I shall Bethel, and visit the transgress; at transgressions of Gilgal multiply Israel upon him I transgression; will also visit and bring your the altars of sacrifices every Bethel: and the morning, [and] horns of the your tithes after altar shall be three years: cut off, and fall 4:5 And offer a to the ground. sacrifice of 3:15 And I will thanksgiving with smite the winter leaven, and house with the proclaim [and] summer house; and publish the free the houses of offerings: for ivory shall this liketh you, perish, and the O ye children of great houses Israel, saith the shall have an Lord GOD. end, saith the 4:6 And I also LORD. have given you 4:1 Hear this cleanness of word, ye kine of teeth in all your Bashan, that cities, and want [are] in the of bread in all mountain of your places: yet Samaria, which have ye not returned unto me, camps to come up saith the LORD. unto your 4:7 And also I nostrils: yet have withholden have ye not the rain from returned unto me, you, when [there saith the LORD. were] yet three 4:11 I have months to the overthrown [some] harvest: and I of you, as God caused it to rain overthrew Sodom upon one city, and Gomorrah, and and caused it not ye were as a to rain upon firebrand plucked another city: one out of the piece was rained burning: yet have upon, and the ye not returned piece whereupon unto me, saith it rained not the LORD. withered. 4:12 Therefore 4:8 So two [or] thus will I do three cities unto thee, O wandered unto one Israel: [and] city, to drink because I will do water; but they this unto thee, were not prepare to meet satisfied: yet thy God, O have ye not Israel. returned unto me, 4:13 For, lo, he saith the LORD. that formeth the 4:9 I have mountains, and smitten you with createth the blasting and wind, and mildew: when your declareth unto gardens and your man what [is] his vineyards and thought, that your fig trees maketh the and your olive morning darkness, trees increased, and treadeth upon the palmerworm the high places devoured [them]: of the earth, The yet have ye not LORD, The God of returned unto me, hosts, [is] his saith the LORD. name. 4:10 I have sent 5:1 Hear ye this among you the word which I take pestilence after up against you, the manner of [even] a Egypt: your young lamentation, O men have I slain house of Israel. with the sword, 5:2 The virgin and have taken of Israel is away your horses; fallen; she shall and I have made no more rise: she the stink of your is forsaken upon her land; [there and maketh the is] none to raise day dark with her up. night: that 5:3 For thus calleth for the saith the Lord waters of the GOD; The city sea, and poureth that went out them out upon the [by] a thousand face of the shall leave an earth: The LORD hundred, and that [is] his name: which went forth 5:9 That [by] an hundred strengtheneth the shall leave ten, spoiled against to the house of the strong, so Israel. that the spoiled 5:4 For thus shall come saith the LORD against the unto the house of fortress. Israel, Seek ye 5:10 They hate me, and ye shall him that rebuketh live: in the gate, and 5:5 But seek not they abhor him Bethel, nor enter that speaketh into Gilgal, and uprightly. pass not to 5:11 Forasmuch Beersheba: for therefore as your Gilgal shall treading [is] surely go into upon the poor, captivity, and and ye take from Bethel shall come him burdens of to nought. wheat: ye have 5:6 Seek the built houses of LORD, and ye hewn stone, but shall live; lest ye shall not he break out like dwell in them; ye fire in the house have planted of Joseph, and pleasant devour [it], and vineyards, but ye [there be] none shall not drink to quench [it] in wine of them. Bethel. 5:12 For I know 5:7 Ye who turn your manifold judgment to transgressions, wormwood, and and your mighty leave off sins: they righteousness in afflict the just, the earth, they take a 5:8 [Seek him] bribe, and they that maketh the turn aside the seven stars and poor in the gate Orion, and [from their turneth the right]. shadow of death 5:13 Therefore into the morning, the prudent shall keep silence in light. that time; for it 5:19 As if a man [is] an evil did flee from a time. lion, and a bear 5:14 Seek good, met him; or went and not evil, into the house, that ye may live: and leaned his and so the LORD, hand on the wall, the God of hosts, and a serpent bit shall be with him. you, as ye have 5:20 [Shall] not spoken. the day of the 5:15 Hate the LORD [be] evil, and love darkness, and not the good, and light? even very establish dark, and no judgment in the brightness in it? gate: it may be that the LORD God 5:21 I hate, I of hosts will be despise your gracious unto the feast days, and I remnant of will not smell in Joseph. your solemn 5:16 Therefore assemblies. the LORD, the God 5:22 Though ye of hosts, the offer me burnt Lord, saith thus; offerings and Wailing [shall your meat be] in all offerings, I will streets; and they not accept shall say in all [them]: neither the highways, will I regard the Alas! alas! and peace offerings they shall call of your fat the husbandman to beasts. mourning, and 5:23 Take thou such as are away from me the skilful of noise of thy lamentation to songs; for I will wailing. not hear the 5:17 And in all melody of thy vineyards [shall viols. be] wailing: for 5:24 But let I will pass judgment run down through thee, as waters, and saith the LORD. righteousness as 5:18 Woe unto a mighty stream. you that desire 5:25 Have ye the day of the offered unto me LORD! to what end sacrifices and [is] it for you? offerings in the the day of the wilderness forty LORD [is] years, O house of darkness, and not Israel? 5:26 But ye have and the calves borne the out of the midst tabernacle of of the stall; your Moloch and 6:5 That chant Chiun your to the sound of images, the star the viol, [and] of your god, invent to which ye made to themselves yourselves. instruments of 5:27 Therefore music, like will I cause you David; to go into 6:6 That drink captivity beyond wine in bowls, Damascus, saith and anoint the LORD, whose themselves with name [is] The God the chief of hosts. ointments: but 6:1 Woe to them they are not [that are] at grieved for the ease in Zion, and affliction of trust in the Joseph. mountain of 6:7 Therefore Samaria, [which now shall they go are] named chief captive with the of the nations, first that go to whom the house captive, and the of Israel came! banquet of them 6:2 Pass ye unto that stretched Calneh, and see; themselves shall and from thence be removed. go ye to Hamath 6:8 The Lord GOD the great: then hath sworn by go down to Gath himself, saith of the the LORD the God Philistines: [be of hosts, I abhor they] better than the excellency of these kingdoms? Jacob, and hate or their border his palaces: greater than your therefore will I border? deliver up the 6:3 Ye that put city with all far away the evil that is therein. day, and cause 6:9 And it shall the seat of come to pass, if violence to come there remain ten near; men in one house, 6:4 That lie that they shall upon beds of die. ivory, and 6:10 And a man's stretch uncle shall take themselves upon him up, and he their couches, that burneth him, and eat the lambs to bring out the out of the flock, bones out of the house, and shall the Lord GOD say unto him that showed unto me; [is] by the sides and, behold, he of the house, [Is formed there] yet [any] grasshoppers in with thee? and he the beginning of shall say, No. the shooting up Then shall he of the latter say, Hold thy growth; and, lo, tongue: for we [it was] the may not make latter growth mention of the after the king's name of the LORD. mowings. 7:2 And it came 6:11 For, to pass, [that] behold, the LORD when they had commandeth, and made an end of he will smite the eating the grass great house with of the land, then breaches, and the I said, O Lord little house with GOD, forgive, I clefts. beseech thee: by 6:12 Shall whom shall Jacob horses run upon arise? for he the rock? will [is] small. [one] plow 7:3 The LORD [there] with repented for oxen? for ye have this: It shall turned judgment not be, saith the into gall, and LORD. the fruit of 7:4 Thus hath righteousness the Lord GOD into hemlock: showed unto me: 6:13 Ye which and, behold, the rejoice in a Lord GOD called thing of nought, to contend by which say, Have fire, and it we not taken to devoured the us horns by our great deep, and own strength? did eat up a 6:14 But, part. behold, I will 7:5 Then said I, raise up against O Lord GOD, you a nation, O cease, I beseech house of Israel, thee: by whom saith the LORD shall Jacob the God of hosts; arise? for he and they shall [is] small. afflict you from 7:6 The LORD the entering in repented for of Hemath unto this: This also the river of the shall not be, wilderness. saith the Lord 7:1 Thus hath GOD. 7:7 Thus he 7:12 Also showed me: and, Amaziah said unto behold, the Lord Amos, O thou stood upon a wall seer, go, flee [made] by a thee away into plumbline, with a the land of plumbline in his Judah, and there hand. eat bread, and 7:8 And the LORD prophesy there: said unto me, 7:13 But Amos, what seest prophesy not thou? And I said, again any more at A plumbline. Then Bethel: for it said the Lord, [is] the king's Behold, I will chapel, and it set a plumbline [is] the king's in the midst of court. my people Israel: 7:14 Then I will not again answered Amos, pass by them any and said to more: Amaziah, I [was] 7:9 And the high no prophet, places of Isaac neither [was] I a shall be prophet's son; desolate, and the but I [was] an sanctuaries of herdman, and a Israel shall be gatherer of laid waste; and I sycamore fruit: will rise against 7:15 And the the house of LORD took me as I Jeroboam with the followed the sword. flock, and the 7:10 Then LORD said unto Amaziah the me, Go, prophesy priest of Bethel unto my people sent to Jeroboam Israel. king of Israel, 7:16 Now saying, Amos hath therefore hear conspired against thou the word of thee in the midst the LORD: Thou of the house of sayest, Prophesy Israel: the land not against is not able to Israel, and drop bear all his not [thy word] words. against the house 7:11 For thus of Isaac. Amos saith, 7:17 Therefore Jeroboam shall thus saith the die by the sword, LORD; Thy wife and Israel shall shall be an surely be led harlot in the away captive out city, and thy of their own sons and thy land. daughters shall fall by the making the ephah sword, and thy small, and the land shall be shekel great, and divided by line; falsifying the and thou shalt balances by die in a polluted deceit? land: and Israel 8:6 That we may shall surely go buy the poor for into captivity silver, and the forth of his needy for a pair land. of shoes; [yea], 8:1 Thus hath and sell the the Lord GOD refuse of the showed unto me: wheat? and behold a 8:7 The LORD basket of summer hath sworn by the fruit. excellency of 8:2 And he said, Jacob, Surely I Amos, what seest will never forget thou? And I said, any of their A basket of works. summer fruit. 8:8 Shall not Then said the the land tremble LORD unto me, The for this, and end is come upon every one mourn my people of that dwelleth Israel; I will therein? and it not again pass by shall rise up them any more. wholly as a 8:3 And the flood; and it songs of the shall be cast out temple shall be and drowned, as howlings in that [by] the flood of day, saith the Egypt. Lord GOD: [there 8:9 And it shall shall be] many come to pass in dead bodies in that day, saith every place; they the Lord GOD, shall cast [them] that I will cause forth with the sun to go silence. down at noon, and 8:4 Hear this, O I will darken the ye that swallow earth in the up the needy, clear day: even to make the 8:10 And I will poor of the land turn your feasts to fail, into mourning, 8:5 Saying, When and all your will the new moon songs into be gone, that we lamentation; and may sell corn? I will bring up and the sabbath, sackcloth upon that we may set all loins, and forth wheat, baldness upon every head; and I last of them with will make it as the sword: he the mourning of that fleeth of an only [son], them shall not and the end flee away, and he thereof as a that escapeth of bitter day. them shall not be 8:11 Behold, the delivered. days come, saith 9:2 Though they the Lord GOD, dig into hell, that I will send thence shall mine a famine in the hand take them; land, not a though they climb famine of bread, up to heaven, nor a thirst for thence will I water, but of bring them down: hearing the words 9:3 And though of the LORD: they hide 8:12 And they themselves in the shall wander from top of Carmel, I sea to sea, and will search and from the north take them out even to the east, thence; and they shall run to though they be and fro to seek hid from my sight the word of the in the bottom of LORD, and shall the sea, thence not find [it]. will I command 8:13 In that day the serpent, and shall the fair he shall bite virgins and young them: men faint for 9:4 And though thirst. they go into 8:14 They that captivity before swear by the sin their enemies, of Samaria, and thence will I say, Thy god, O command the Dan, liveth; and, sword, and it The manner of shall slay them: Beersheba liveth; and I will set even they shall mine eyes upon fall, and never them for evil, rise up again. and not for good. 9:1 I saw the Lord standing 9:5 And the Lord upon the altar: GOD of hosts [is] and he said, he that toucheth Smite the lintel the land, and it of the door, that shall melt, and the posts may all that dwell shake: and cut therein shall them in the head, mourn: and it all of them; and shall rise up I will slay the wholly like a flood; and shall upon the earth. be drowned, as 9:10 All the [by] the flood of sinners of my Egypt. people shall die 9:6 [It is] he by the sword, that buildeth his which say, The stories in the evil shall not heaven, and hath overtake nor founded his troop prevent us. in the earth; he 9:11 In that day that calleth for will I raise up the waters of the the tabernacle of sea, and poureth David that is them out upon the fallen, and close face of the up the breaches earth: The LORD thereof; and I [is] his name. will raise up his 9:7 [Are] ye not ruins, and I will as children of build it as in the Ethiopians the days of old: unto me, O 9:12 That they children of may possess the Israel? saith the remnant of Edom, LORD. Have not I and of all the brought up Israel heathen, which out of the land are called by my of Egypt? and the name, saith the Philistines from LORD that doeth Caphtor, and the this. Syrians from Kir? 9:13 Behold, the days come, saith 9:8 Behold, the the LORD, that eyes of the Lord the plowman shall GOD [are] upon overtake the the sinful reaper, and the kingdom, and I treader of grapes will destroy it him that soweth from off the face seed; and the of the earth; mountains shall saving that I drop sweet wine, will not utterly and all the hills destroy the house shall melt. of Jacob, saith 9:14 And I will the LORD. bring again the 9:9 For, lo, I captivity of my will command, and people of Israel, I will sift the and they shall house of Israel build the waste among all cities, and nations, like as inhabit [them]; [corn] is sifted and they shall in a sieve, yet plant vineyards, shall not the and drink the least grain fall wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. 9:15 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. ^Z^Z ~~~~~~