1The words of Amos that came in Akkareim among Tekoa, which he saw concerning Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. 2 And he said, “The Lord gave an utterance from Zion and gave his voice from Jerusalem, and the pastures of the shepherds mourned, and the peak of Carmel dried up.” 3 And the Lord said, “For three impious acts of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away from him, because they sawed with saws made of iron the pregnant women of those in Gilead.[1] 4 And I will send fire to the house of Hazael, and it will devour the foundations of the son of Hadad. 5 And I will crush the bars of Damascus, and I will utterly destroy those dwelling from the plain of Beth-aven, and I will massacre the tribe from the men of Haran, and the appointed people of Aram will be taken prisoner,” says the Lord. 6 This is what the Lord says, “For three impious acts of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away from them, because they made prisoners the captives of Solomon, in order to shut them up in Edom. 7 So I will send fire upon the walls of Gaza, and it will devour its foundations. 8 And I will utterly destroy those settling from Ashdod, and a tribe will rise up from Ashkelon, and I will bring my hand against Ekron, and the rest of the foreigners will die,” says the Lord. 9 This is what the Lord says, “For three impious acts of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn away from him, because they confined the captives of Solomon in Edom, and they did not remember the covenant of brothers. 10 And I will send fire upon the walls of Tyre, and it will devour its foundations.” 11 This is what the Lord says, “For three impious acts of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away from them, because they pursued by broadsword his brother, and he treated his mother with indignity upon the land, and carried off his shuddering as a testimony, and his onslaught he kept for a quarrel. 12 And I will send fire to Teman, and it will devour the foundations of its walls.” 13 This is what the Lord says, “For three impious acts of the sons of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away from him, because they were rending those who were pregnant of the Gileadites, so that they might extend their boundaries. 14 And I will kindle fire on the walls of Rabbah, and it will devour its foundations, with shouting on the day of war, and it will shake on the days of its destruction.
2And its kings will go into captivity, their priests and their rulers together,” says the Lord. 2 This is what the Lord says, “For three impious acts of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away from him, because they burned to dust the bones of the king of Edom. 2 So I will send fire against Moab, and it will devour the foundations of its cities, and Moab will die by inability, with shouting and with sound of trumpet. 3 And I will utterly destroy the judge from it, and I will kill all of its people with him,” says the Lord. 4 This is what the Lord says, “For three impious acts of the sons of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away from him, because they pushed away the law of the Lord, and they did not keep his ordinances, and their vain things, which they did, which their ancestors followed after them, deceived them. 5 So I will send fire against Judah, and it will devour the foundations of Jerusalem.” 6 This is what the Lord says, “For three impious acts of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away from him, because they sold a righteous man for silver, and a poor man for the sake of sandals, 7 which walk on the dust of the earth, and used to punch at the head of the poor, and perverted the way of the low, and a son and his father used to go in to the same young woman, in order that they might profane the name of their God. 8 And while binding with cords their clothes, they used to make curtains that cling to the altar, and drink wine from extortion in the house of their god. 9 But I lifted up the Amorites from their face, whose height was just as the height of a cedar, and he was mighty like an oak, and I dried his fruit from above, and his roots from below. 10 And I led you up from the land of Egypt, and I led you about in the wilderness forty years, so that you might inherit the land of the Amorites. 11 And I have taken some from your sons for prophets, and some from your young men for consecration. Are these things not so, O sons of Israel?” says the Lord. 12 “And you used to give those who were sanctified wine, and would command the prophets, saying, ‘Do not prophesy! 13 On account of this, look, I am rolling along under you the way the wagon that is full of straw is being rolled along. 14 And flight will vanish from a runner, and the mighty man will not get possession of his strength, and the fighter will not save his life, 15 and the bowman will not stand his ground, and the one who is quick with his feet shall not be saved, nor shall the horseman save his life, 16 and the strong shall not find his heart in acts of power; the naked person will pursue on that day,” says the Lord.
3Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O house of Israel, and concerning the whole tribe that I led up out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2 “But I knew you out of all the tribes of the earth. On account of this, I will avenge upon you all your sins. 3 Will two walk together at all if they are not acquainted with themselves? 4 Will a lion roar from his thicket when it does not have prey? Will a cub give its growl from its den at all if it did not seize something? 5 Will a bird fall upon the ground without a bird-catcher? Will a trap spring up in the land without capturing anything?[2] 6 Will a war-trumpet sound in a city and the people not be terrified? Will there be wickedness in a city which the Lord did not bring to pass? 7 Because the Lord God will not render a deed if he has not revealed instruction to his servants, the prophets. 8 A lion will roar, and who will not be afraid? The Lord God has spoken, and who will not prophesy? 9 Bring tidings to territories in Assyria, and as far as the territories of Egypt, and say, ‘Assemble upon the mountain of Samaria, and see many wonderful things in her midst, and the oppression that is in her. 10 And she did not know what things would be before her,’ says the Lord, ‘those storing up injustice and misery in their territories.’” 11 Thanks to this, thus says the Lord God, “O Tyre, your land has been laid waste round about, and he will reduce your might from you, and your territories will be plundered.” 12 Thus says the Lord, “The way when the shepherd draws out of the mouth of a lion two legs or a lobe of an ear, so the sons of Israel who are dwelling in Samaria before the tribe and in Damascus as priests will be removed.” 13 “Hear, and bear witness for the house of Jacob,” says the Lord God Almighty, 14 “because in the day when I am avenging the impiety of Israel upon him, I will also avenge upon the altars of Bethel, and the horns of the altar will be utterly destroyed, and they will fall upon the land. 15 I will demolish and strike the house that is encircled by a colonnade upon the summer house, and ivory houses will perish, and many other houses will be added,” says the Lord.
4Hear this word, O heifers of Bashan, who are in the mountain of Samaria, who are oppressing beggars and trampling the poor, who say to their lords, “Give freely to us in order that we might drink!” 2 The Lord swears by his holy ones, “For look, days are coming upon you, and they will take you with weapons, and feverish pests will throw those with you into cauldrons heating from below. 3 And you will be carried out naked before one another, and you will be thrown away into Mount Rimmon,” says the Lord. 4 “You entered into Bethel and were impious, and in Gilgal you increased acting impiously, and you carried your sacrifices for the morning, your tithes for three days.[3] 5 And they read the law outside, and they invoked confessions. You announced, because the sons of Israel loved these things,” says the Lord God. 6 “And I will give you grinding of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places, and you did not return to me,” says the Lord. 7 “And I withheld the rain from you for three months before the harvest, and I will send rain upon one city, but upon one city I will not rain. One portion will get wet, and the portion upon which I do not send rain will dry up, 8 and two or three cities will gather together into one city to drink water, and they will not be full; and they did not return to me,” says the Lord. 9 “I struck you with fevers and with jaundice. You multiplied your gardens. The caterpillar devoured your vineyards and your fig groves and your olive groves, and even so you did not return to me,” says the Lord. 10 “I sent death to you in the way of Egypt, and I killed your young men by the sword, with the captivity of your horses, and I lifted up your armies with fire in your anger; and even so you did not return to me,” says the Lord. 11 “I overthrew you just as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. And you became like a firebrand removed from the fire, And even so you did not return to me,” says the Lord. 12 “On account of this, thus I will do to you, O Israel, except that because I will do thus to you, prepare yourself to call upon your God, O Israel. 13 Because I am establishing thunder and creating wind, and announcing his anointed one to humans, making dawn and mist, treading upon the heights of the land, the Lord God the Almighty is his name.”
5Hear this word of the Lord, a lamentation that I am receiving against you, O house of Israel:[4] 2 “She fell, never again to stand; the virgin Israel fell upon her land; there is no one who will raise her up.” 3 Because of this, thus says the lord Lord, “The city from which thousands used to go out, one hundred will be left remaining, and from which one hundred used to go out, ten will be left remaining for the house of Israel.” 4 Because the Lord says these things to the house of Israel, “Seek me out, and you will live, 5 and do not seek out Bethel, and do not enter into Gilgal, and do not walk to the well of the oath, because Gilgal, by being taken prisoner, will be taken prisoner, and Bethel will be like a woman who does not exist.” 6 Seek out the Lord, and you shall live, so that the house of Joseph should not ignite like a fire, and he should devour him, and there will be no one quenching it for the house of Israel. 7 The one who is establishing judgment on high and righteousness for the land, 8 the one making all things, and transforming and changing the shadow into the morning, and darkening day into night, the one who is summoning the water of the sea and pouring it out upon the face of the earth, the Lord is his name,[5] 9 the one who is dispensing ruin upon strength, and bringing misery upon a stronghold. 10 They have hated the one cross-examining in the gates, and they have loathed a holy word. 11 On account of this, because you were striking beggars, and you took choice gifts from them, you have built hewn houses, but you will not dwell in them; you have planted desired vineyards, but you will not drink the wine from them. 12 For I knew your many impieties and your mighty sins, trampling down the righteous, taking a bargain, and turning away the poor in the gates. 13 On account of this, the one who understands will be silent in that time, because it is a bad time. 14 Seek out what is good and not evil, in order that you may live, and the Lord God, the Almighty, will be thus with you, in the way you have said, 15 “We have hated the evil things and loved the beautiful things.” And restore judgment in the gates, in order that the Lord God, the Almighty, may show mercy to the remnant of Joseph.[6] 16 On account of this, the Lord God, the Almighty, says these things, “In all the streets there will be mourning, and in all the roads it will be said, ‘Woe! Woe!’ A farmer will be summoned for grief, and mourning for those knowing a funeral song, 17 and in all roads there will be mourning, because I will go through the middle of you,” said the Lord. 18 “Woe, you who desire the day of the Lord! For what purpose is this the day of the Lord for you? And it is darkness and not light, 19 just like if a person escapes from the face of the lion and the bear attacks him, and he rushes into his house and rests his hands upon the wall and the serpent bites him. 20 Is not the day of the Lord darkness and not light? And gloom having no splendor to it? 21 I have hated, I have rejected your feasts, and I have not smelled the sacrifice on your holy days. 22 For if you brought me your whole burnt offerings and sacrifices, I would not accept them, and I would not eye with envy your saving manifestations. 23 Remove from me the sound of your songs, and I will not listen to the sound of your instruments. 24 And judgment will roll along like water, and righteousness like an impassable brook. 25 Did you bring me offerings and sacrifices in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? 26 And you took along the tent of Molech and the star of your god Kaiwan, the images of them that you made for yourselves.[7] 27 So I will resettle you beyond Damascus,” says the Lord; the Almighty God is his name.
6“Woe to those who disdain Zion, and to those who trust in the mountain of Samaria. They picked the rulers of the nations, and they entered. O house of Israel, 2 walk, all of you, and see, and pass through from that place to Hamath Rabbah, and go down from that place to Gath of foreigners, the nobles from all these kingdoms, if their borders are greater than your borders. 3 Those who are coming to a bad day, who are drawing near and holding false sabbaths, 4 those laying down to sleep upon beds of ivory and living luxuriously upon their beds, and eating kids from the flocks and suckling little calves from the middle of herds, 5 those clapping to the music of the instruments, since they considered them as abiding and not as fleeting, 6 those drinking filtered wine and those anointing themselves with first-rate myrrh, and they would not suffer anything because of the ruin of Joseph. 7 On account of this, now they will be captives from the beginning of the mighty ones, and the neighing of horses will be removed from Ephraim.” 8 Because the Lord swore by himself, “Because I loathe all the pride of Jacob, and I have hated his territories, so I will remove a city together with all those who inhabit it.” 9 And it will be, if ten remain in one house, so they will die, and the remnant will be left.[8] 10 And their relatives will take them and act defiantly in order to carry out their bones from the house, and they will say to the leaders of the house, “Does one exist yet from you?” And someone will say, “No more.” And he will say, “Be silent, on account of not naming the name of the Lord!” 11 Because look, the Lord commands, and he will strike the great house with breaches, and the small house with cracks. 12 Will horses pursue on rocks? Will they be silent among mares? Because you have perverted judgment into wrath, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness. 13 Those who delight at no word, those saying, “Did we not have horns with our strength?” 14 “For look, I am raising up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” the Lord of hosts says, “and they will afflict you to not enter into Hamath and as the brook of the west.”
7Thus the Lord God showed me and look, the offspring of locusts is coming early, and look, one locust is Agag, the king. 2 And it will be, if they finish devouring the grass of the land. So I said, “O Lord, O Lord, be merciful! Who will raise up Jacob, because he is very small. 3 Repent, O Lord, because of this.” “And this will not be,” says the Lord. 4 So the Lord showed me, and look, the Lord invoked the judgment with fire, and it devoured the great deeps, and it devoured the portion of the Lord. 5 And I said, “O Lord, rest now! Who will raise up Jacob, because he is very small.[9] 6 Repent, O Lord, because of this.” “And this will not happen,” says the Lord. 7 Thus the Lord showed me, and look, one was posted upon an adamantine wall, and adamanta was in his hand. 8 And the Lord said to me, “What do you see, Amos?” And I said, “Adamant.” And the Lord said to me, “Look, I am placing adamant in the middle of my people, Israel. No longer will I add to passing by him. 9 And the altars of derision will be destroyed, and the rituals of Israel will be desolate, and I will arise against the house of Jeroboam with a sword.” 10 And Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent to Jeroboam, king of Israel, saying, “Amos is creating conspiracies against you in the middle of the house of Israel. The land is not able to endure all of his words. 11 Because Amos is saying these things, ‘By a sword Jeroboam will die, and Israel will be led as a captive away from his land.’” 12 And Amaziah said to Amos, “O seer, go! Depart to the land of Judah, and there spend your life, and there you shall prophesy, 13 but in Bethel no longer increase prophesying, because it is a sanctuary of the king, and it is a house of the kingdom.” 14 And Amos answered and said to Amaziah, “I was not a prophet, nor was I the son of a prophet; rather I was a goat herder and one who scratches mulberry fruits. 15 And the Lord gathered me out of the sheep, and the Lord said to me, ‘Go, prophesy against my people, Israel. 16 So now, hear the word of the Lord, You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel, and you shall not attract a crowd against the house of Jacob. 17 On account of this, the Lord says these things, ‘Your wife will prostitute herself in the city, and your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword, and your land will be measured out with a measuring line, and you will die in an impure land, and Israel will be led as a captive from his land.’” A Vision of a Basket of a Bird-catcher 8 So the lord Lord showed me,
8and look, a basket of a birdcatcher. And he said, “What do you see, Amos?” And I said, “A basket of a bird-catcher.” 2 And the Lord said to me, “The end has come upon my people Israel. I will no longer continue going by him. 3 And the rafters of the temple will howl in that day,” says the lord Lord. “The one who has fallen will be great in every place. I will throw silence upon them.” 4 Hear now these things, you who are destroying the poor man in the morning and are oppressing the beggars of the land, 5 who are saying, “When will the month pass and we will do business, and the Sabbaths and we will open the treasury, to make a small measure, to increase the weight, and to make an unjust yoke, 6 to acquire beggars with silver and a low one for sandals, and we will trade from every kind of produce?” 7 The Lord swears by the arrogance of Jacob, “If all your works will be forgotten for the dispute. 8 And because of these things, will not the land be troubled, and all the settlers will mourn in it, and the consummation will overflow like a river and go down like the river of Egypt? 9 And it will be in that day,” says the lord Lord, “and the sun will set during midday, and the light will grow quite dark upon the land in daytime. 10 And I will change your holidays into grief, and all your songs into lamentation. And I will cause a sackcloth to go on every waist, and baldness on every head. And I will make it like the grief of a beloved one, and those with it like a day of pain. 11 Look, days are coming,” says the Lord, “and I will send a famine upon the landnot a famine of loaves nor thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the word of the Lord. 12 And the waters will be shaken from the sea, and from the north as far as eastern regions they will run about, seeking the word of the Lord, and they will not find it. 13 On that day, the beautiful virgins and the young men will come to an end with thirst, 14 those who swear by the atonement of Samaria, and who say, ‘Your God lives, O Dan,’ and ‘Your God lives, O Beer-sheba.’ And they will fall and shall not rise again.”
9I saw the Lord standing on the altar, and he said, “Strike upon the lid of the Ark of the Covenant, and the gateway will be shaken, and cut through into the heads of all, and I will slay their remnant with a sword. Not one of them who flee will escape, and not one of them who is escaping will arrive in safety. 2 If they hide in Hades, from there my hand will pull them up; and if they ascend into heaven, from there I will bring them down. 3 If they should hide on the summit of Carmel, from there I will search for and take them; and if they sink from my eyes into the depth of the sea, there I will command the dragon, and it will bite them. 4 And if they go into captivity before the face of their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. And I will set my eyes upon them for evil things and not for good things.” 5 And the Lord, Lord God, the Almighty, is the one who is laying hold of the land and shaking it, and all those who inhabit it will mourn, and its consummation will overflow like a river and will go down like the river of Egypt. 6 He is the one who is building his ascent to heaven and is founding his promise upon the land, the one who is summoning the water of the sea and pouring it out upon the face of the land; the Lord Almighty is his name. 7 “Are you not like the sons of the Ethiopians to me, O sons of Israel?” says the Lord. “Have I not led Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the foreigners out of Caphtor and the Arameans out of a pit? 8 Look, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the kingdom of sinners, and I will remove it from the face of the earth, except that I will not completely remove the house of Jacob,” says the Lord. 9 “Because I am giving the command, and I will winnow the house of Israel among all the Gentiles, the way one winnows with a winnowing fan, and you will not fall as crushed grain upon the land. 10 All sinners of my people will die by the sword, those who say, ‘The evil things shall not approach or come against us. 11 On that day I will raise up the tent of David that has fallen, and I will rebuild its things that have fallen, and I will raise up its things that have been destroyed, and I will rebuild it just as the days of eternity, 12 so that the remnant of the people, and all the Gentiles upon whom my name was invoked upon them, will search for me,” says the Lord who is making these things.[10] 13 “Look, days are coming,” says the Lord, “and the harvest will overtake the harvest, and the grapes will turn dark at seedtime, and the mountains will drip sweetness, and all the hills will be thickly wooded.[11] 14 And I will return the captives of my people Israel, and they will build the cities that are destroyed and inhabit them, and they will plant vineyards and drink their wine, and they will plant gardens and eat their produce. 15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they will be drawn out no longer from the land which I gave them,” says the Lord God, the Almighty.