Amos 1:1-15
1 The words of Aʹmos, who happened to be among the sheep raisers from Te·koʹa,+ which he visioned concerning Israel+ in the days of Uz·ziʹah+ the king of Judah and in the days of Jer·o·boʹam+ the son of Joʹash,+ the king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.+
2 And he proceeded to say:
“Jehovah—out of Zion he will roar,+ and out of Jerusalem he will give forth his voice;+ and the pasture grounds of the shepherds must go to mourning, and the summit of Carʹmel must dry up.”+
3 “This is what Jehovah has said, ‘“On account of three revolts of Damascus,+ and on account of four, I shall not turn it back, on account of their threshing Gilʹe·ad+ even with iron threshing instruments.
4 And I will send a fire+ onto the house of Hazʹa·el,+ and it must devour the dwelling towers of Ben-haʹdad.+
5 And I will break the bar of Damascus+ and cut off [the] inhabitant from Bikʹath-aʹven,* and the holder of [the] scepter from Beth-eʹden;* and the people of Syria* will have to go as exiles to Kir,”+ Jehovah has said.’
6 “This is what Jehovah has said, ‘“On account of three revolts of Gaʹza,+ and on account of four, I shall not turn it back, on account of their taking into exile a complete body of exiles+ to hand over to Eʹdom.+
7 And I will send a fire onto the wall of Gaʹza,+ and it must devour her dwelling towers.
8 And I will cut off [the] inhabitant from Ashʹdod,+ and the holder of [the] scepter from Ashʹke·lon;+ and I will turn my hand back+ upon Ekʹron,+ and the remaining ones* of the Phi·lisʹtines must perish,”+ the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said.’
9 “This is what Jehovah has said, ‘On account of three revolts of Tyre,+ and on account of four, I shall not turn it back, on account of their handing over a complete body of exiles to Eʹdom, and [because] they did not remember the covenant of brothers.+
10 And I will send a fire onto the wall of Tyre, and it must devour her dwelling towers.’+
11 “This is what Jehovah has said, ‘On account of three revolts of Eʹdom,+ and on account of four, I shall not turn it back, on account of his pursuing his own brother with the sword,+ and [because] he ruined his [own] merciful qualities,+ and his anger keeps tearing away forever; and his fury—he has kept it perpetually.+
12 And I will send a fire into Teʹman,+ and it must devour the dwelling towers of Bozʹrah.’+
13 “This is what Jehovah has said, ‘“On account of three revolts of the sons of Amʹmon,*+ and on account of four, I shall not turn it back,+ on account of their slitting open the pregnant women of Gilʹe·ad, for the purpose of widening out their own territory.+
14 And I will set fire to the wall of Rabʹbah,+ and it must devour her dwelling towers, with an alarm signal in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of storm wind.+
15 And their king must go into exile, he and his princes together,”+ Jehovah has said.’
Footnotes
^ Or, “the Valley Plain of Aven.”
^ Or, “the House of Eden.”
^ “Syria,” LXXVg; MTSy, “Aram.”
^ Or, “the remnant.”
^ “The sons of Ammon.” Or, “the Ammonites.”
