The words of  ¹Amos, who was among the sheep tenders from Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah the king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, the king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

And he said,
Jehovah will roar from Zion,
And from Jerusalem He will utter His voice;
And the pastures of the shepherds will mourn,
And the top of Carmel will dry up.

Thus says Jehovah,
Because of  ¹three transgressions of Damascus,
Indeed, because of four, I will not turn away  ²the punishment;
Because they have threshed Gilead
With sharp threshing tools of iron.

And I will send fire into the house of Hazael,
And it will devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.

And I will break the bar of Damascus,
And I will cut off the inhabitant of the valley of  ¹Aven
And him who holds the scepter from Beth-eden;
And the people of  ²Aram will go into captivity unto Kir,
Says Jehovah.

Thus says Jehovah,
Because of three transgressions of Gaza,
Indeed, because of four, I will not turn away the punishment;
Because they carried away captive the entire captivity
In order to deliver them up to Edom.

And I will send fire to the wall of Gaza,
And it will devour its palaces.

And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod
And him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon,
And I will turn My hand against Ekron;
And the remnant of the Philistines will perish,
Says the Lord Jehovah.

Thus says Jehovah,
Because of three transgressions of Tyre,
Indeed, because of four, I will not turn away the punishment;
Because they delivered up the entire captivity to Edom
And did not remember a covenant among brothers.

And I will send fire to the wall of Tyre,
And it will devour its palaces.

Thus says Jehovah,
Because of three transgressions of Edom,
Indeed, because of four, I will not turn away the punishment;
Because he pursued his brother with the sword
And stifled his compassions;
And his anger raged continually,
And he kept his overflowing wrath perpetually.

And I will send fire upon Teman,
And it will devour the palaces of Bozrah.

Thus says Jehovah,
Because of three transgressions of the children of  ¹Ammon,
Indeed, because of four, I will not turn away the punishment;
Because they ripped up the pregnant women of Gilead
In order to enlarge their border.

And I will kindle a fire in the walls of Rabbah,
And it will devour its palaces
With shouting in the day of battle,
With a tempest in the day of the storm wind.

And their king will go into captivity,
He and his princes together,
Says Jehovah.

Thus says Jehovah,
Because of three transgressions of  ¹Moab,
Indeed, because of four, I will not turn away the punishment;
Because he burned the bones
Of the king of Edom into lime.

And I will send fire upon Moab,
And it will devour the palaces of Kerioth;
And Moab will die amid tumult,
With shouting, with the sound of a trumpet.

And I will cut off the judge from the midst of it
And will slay all its princes with him,
Says Jehovah.

Thus says Jehovah,
Because of three transgressions of Judah,
Indeed, because of four, I will not turn away the punishment;
Because they have rejected the law of Jehovah
And have not kept His statutes;
And their lies have caused them to err,
The lies which their fathers walked after.

And I will send fire upon Judah,
And it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

Thus says Jehovah,
Because of three transgressions of Israel,
Indeed, because of four, I will not turn away the punishment;
Because they have sold the righteous for silver
And the needy for a pair of sandals —

They who pant after the dust of the earth upon the heads of the poor,
And turn aside the way of the meek.
And a man and his father go in unto the same young woman,
In order to profane My holy name.

And upon garments taken as pledge they lay themselves down
Beside every altar,
And in the house of their God they drink
The wine of those who have been fined.

But I destroyed the Amorite before them,
Whose height was like the height of the cedars,
And he was as strong as the oaks;
Yet I destroyed his fruit from above
And his roots from beneath.

And I brought you up from the land of Egypt
And led you in the wilderness for forty years,
To possess the land of the Amorites.

And I raised up some of your sons as prophets
And some of your young men as Nazarites.
Is it not indeed so, O children of Israel?
Declares Jehovah.

But you made the Nazarites drink wine
And commanded the prophets, saying, Do not prophesy.

Indeed I will press on you,
As a cart that is full of sheaves presses.

And flight will perish from the swift,
And the strong will not strengthen his force,
Nor will the mighty deliver his soul;

And he who wields the bow will not stand,
And he who is swift of foot will not deliver himself,
And he who rides the horse will not deliver his soul.

And he who is stout-hearted among the mighty men
Will flee away naked in that day,
Declares Jehovah.

Hear this word that Jehovah has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,

Only you have I known
Of all the families of the earth;
Therefore I will visit upon you
All your iniquities.

 ¹Will two walk together
If they have not met at an appointed place?

Will the lion roar in the forest
When he has no prey?
Will a young lion utter his voice from his den
If he has not seized anything?

Will a bird fall into a trap on the earth
When there is no snare laid for it?
Will a trap spring up off the ground
When it has seized nothing at all?

Can a trumpet be blown in a city
And the people not dread?
Can there be ill in a city
And Jehovah did not do it?

Surely the Lord Jehovah will not do anything unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.

The lion has roared —
Who will not fear?
The Lord Jehovah has spoken —
Who can but prophesy?

Cause it to be heard in the palaces of Ashdod
And in the palaces of the land of Egypt, and say,
Assemble yourselves in the mountains of Samaria,
And see what great tumults are in the midst of it
And what oppressions are within it;

And they do not know to do what is right,
Declares Jehovah,
They who store up violence and devastation in their palaces.

Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah,
An adversary! Indeed one surrounding the land;
And he will bring down your strength from you,
And your palaces will be plundered.

Thus says Jehovah,
As the shepherd rescues
Out of the mouth of the lion
Two legs or a piece of the ear,
So will the children of Israel
Who dwell in Samaria be rescued,
With the corner of a bed
And a silk cushion of a couch.

Hear, and testify against the house of Jacob, declares the Lord Jehovah, the God of hosts.

For in the day when I visit
The transgressions of Israel upon him,
I will visit the altars of  ¹Bethel,
And the horns of the altar will be cut off
And will fall to the ground.

And I will strike the  ¹winter house
Along with the  ¹summer house;
And the houses of ivory will perish,
And many houses will come to an end,
Declares Jehovah.