1 THE words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of ^aUzziah king of Judah, and in the days of ^bJeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the ^cearthquake .
 2 And he said, The LORD will ^aroar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the ^bhabitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.
 3 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ^athreshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
 4 But I will send a fire into the house of ^aHazael , which shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.
 5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.
 6 ¶ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:
 7 But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:
 8 And I will cut off the inhabitant from ^aAshdod , and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the ^bPhilistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD.
 9 ¶ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of ^aTyrus , and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the ^bbrotherly covenant:
 10 But I will send a fire on the wall of ^aTyrus , which shall devour the palaces thereof.
 11 ¶ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of ^aEdom , and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
 12 But I will send a fire upon ^aTeman , which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.
 13 ¶ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:
 14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of ^aRabbah , and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:
 15 And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the LORD.

 1 THUS saith the LORD; For three transgressions of ^aMoab , and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
 2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:
 3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.
 4 ¶ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ^adespised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
 5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
 6 ¶ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they ^asold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
 7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to ^aprofane my holy name:
 8 And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
 9 ¶ Yet ^adestroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
 10 Also I ^abrought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you ^bforty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
 11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for ^aNazarites . Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.
 12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
 13 Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
 14 Therefore the ^aflight shall perish from the ^bswift , and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty ^cdeliver himself:
 15 Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse ^adeliver himself.
 16 And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.

 1 HEAR this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I ^abrought up from the land of Egypt, saying,
 2 You ^aonly have I ^bknown of all the families of the earth: therefore I will ^cpunish you for all your iniquities.
 3 Can two walk together, except they be ^aagreed ?
 4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?
 5 Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no ^agin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?
 6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be ^aevil in a city, and the LORD hath not ^bdone it?
 7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, ^abut he ^brevealeth his ^csecret unto his servants the ^dprophets .
 8 The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but ^aprophesy ?
 9 ¶ Publish in the palaces at ^aAshdod , and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.
 10 For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up ^aviolence and robbery in their palaces.
 11 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.
 12 Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.
 13 Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
 14 That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of ^aBeth-el : and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and ^bfall to the ground.
 15 And I will smite the ^awinter house with the summer house; and the houses of ^bivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.

 1 HEAR this word, ye ^akine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of ^bSamaria , which oppress the ^cpoor , which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
 2 The Lord GOD hath sworn by his ^aholiness , that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
 3 And ye shall go out at the ^abreaches , every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the LORD.
 4 ¶ Come to Beth-el, and transgress; at ^aGilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your ^btithes after three ^cyears :
 5 And offer a sacrifice of ^athanksgiving with ^bleaven , and proclaim and publish the ^cfree offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
 6 ¶ And I also have given you ^acleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not ^breturned unto me, saith the LORD.
 7 And also I have withholden the ^arain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
 8 So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
 9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
 10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your ^ayoung men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
 11 I have overthrown some of you, as God ^aoverthrew ^bSodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a ^cfirebrand plucked out of the ^dburning : yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
 12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
 13 For, lo, he that ^aformeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his ^bthought , that maketh the ^cmorning ^ddarkness , and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.

 1 HEAR ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
 2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
 3 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
 4 ¶ For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, ^aSeek ye me, and ye shall live:
 5 But seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and ^aBeth-el shall come to nought.
 6 ^aSeek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.
 7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
 8 Seek him that maketh ^athe seven ^bstars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the ^cmorning , and maketh the day ^ddark with night: that calleth for the ^ewaters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: ^fThe LORD is his name:
 9 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
 10 They hate him that rebuketh in the ^agate , and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
 11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have ^abuilt houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not ^bdwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
 12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a ^abribe , and they ^bturn aside the ^cpoor in the gate from their right.
 13 Therefore the ^aprudent shall keep ^bsilence in that time; for it is an evil time.
 14 Seek ^agood , and not ^bevil , that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
 15 Hate the evil, and ^alove the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of ^bJoseph .
 16 Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
 17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.
 18 Woe unto you that ^adesire the ^bday of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is ^cdarkness , and not light.
 19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
 20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
 21 ¶ I hate, I despise your ^afeast days, and I will not ^bsmell in your ^csolemn assemblies.
 22 Though ye ^aoffer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not ^baccept them: neither will I regard the peace ^cofferings of your fat beasts.
 23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
 24 But let ^ajudgment run down as waters, and ^brighteousness as a mighty stream.
 25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
 26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your ^aMoloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
 27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.

 1 WOE to them that are at ^aease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of ^bSamaria , which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!
 2 Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?
 3 Ye that put ^afar away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
 4 That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
 5 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves ^ainstruments of ^bmusick , like David;
 6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
 7 ¶ Therefore now shall they go ^acaptive with the first that go captive, and the ^bbanquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
 8 The Lord GOD hath ^asworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the ^bexcellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
 9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten ^amen in one house, that they shall die.
 10 And a man’s uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.
 11 For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
 12 ¶ Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned ^ajudgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
 13 Ye which ^arejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?
 14 But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.

 1 THUS hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.
 2 And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
 3 ^aThe LORD ^brepented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.
 4 ¶ Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
 5 Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
 6 ^aThe LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.
 7 ¶ Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
 8 And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again ^apass by them any more:
 9 And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the ^ahouse of Jeroboam with the sword.
 10 ¶ Then Amaziah the priest of Beth-el sent to ^aJeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.
 11 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.
 12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou ^aseer , go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
 13 But prophesy not again any more at Beth-el: for it is the king’s ^achapel , and it is the king’s court.
 14 ¶ Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no ^aprophet , neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
 15 And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the ^aLORD said unto me, ^bGo , ^cprophesy unto my people Israel.
 16 ¶ Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.
 17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and ^aIsrael shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.

 1 THUS hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
 2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The ^aend is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again ^bpass by them any more.
 3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
 4 ¶ Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the ^asabbath , that we may set forth wheat, making the ^bephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the ^cbalances by deceit?
 6 That we may ^abuy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
 7 The LORD hath sworn by the ^aexcellency of Jacob, Surely I will never ^bforget any of their works.
 8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one ^amourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall ^bbe cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the ^asun to go down at noon, and I will ^bdarken the ^cearth in the clear day:
 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into ^alamentation ; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and ^bbaldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an ^conly son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
 11 ¶ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a ^afamine of bread, nor a ^bthirst for water, but of hearing the ^cwords of the LORD:
 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall ^arun to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
 13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
 14 They that ^aswear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O ^bDan , liveth; and, The manner of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.

 1 I SAW the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will ^aslay the last of them with the sword: he that ^bfleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.
 2 Though they dig into ^ahell , thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:
 3 And though they ^ahide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
 4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for ^aevil , and not for good.
 5 And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall ^amelt , and all that dwell therein shall ^bmourn : and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
 6 It is he that buildeth his ^astories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the ^bwaters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.
 7 Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
 8 Behold, the ^aeyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will ^bdestroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly ^cdestroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.
 9 For, lo, I will command, and I will ^asift the house of ^bIsrael among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain ^cfall upon the earth.
 10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor ^aprevent us.
 11 ¶ In that day will I raise up the ^atabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
 12 That they may ^apossess the remnant of ^bEdom , and of all the ^cheathen , which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.
 13 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that ^asoweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall ^bmelt .
 14 And I will bring again the ^acaptivity of my people of ^bIsrael , and they shall ^cbuild the ^dwaste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
 15 And I will ^aplant them upon their ^bland , and they shall ^cno more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.