ukjv - Amos:1-2

ukjv@Amos:1:1 @ The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel 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.

ukjv@Amos:1:2 @ And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.

ukjv@Amos:1:3 @ Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:

ukjv@Amos:1:4 @ But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.

ukjv@Amos:1:5 @ I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holds the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, says the LORD.

ukjv@Amos:1:6 @ Thus says 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:

ukjv@Amos:1:7 @ But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:

ukjv@Amos:1:8 @ And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holds the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, says the Lord GOD.

ukjv@Amos:1:9 @ Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:

ukjv@Amos:1:10 @ But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.

ukjv@Amos:1:11 @ Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, 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:

ukjv@Amos:1:12 @ But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.

ukjv@Amos:1:13 @ Thus says 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:

ukjv@Amos:1:14 @ But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:

ukjv@Amos:1:15 @ And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, says the LORD.

ukjv@Amos:2:1 @ Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

ukjv@Amos:2:2 @ 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:

ukjv@Amos:2:3 @ And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, says the LORD.

ukjv@Amos:2:4 @ Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to go astray, after the which their fathers have walked:

ukjv@Amos:2:5 @ But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

ukjv@Amos:2:6 @ Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;

ukjv@Amos:2:7 @ 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 profane my holy name:

ukjv@Amos:2:8 @ 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.

ukjv@Amos:2:9 @ Yet destroyed 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.

ukjv@Amos:2:10 @ Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

ukjv@Amos:2:11 @ And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O all of you children of Israel? says the LORD.

ukjv@Amos:2:12 @ But all of you gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

ukjv@Amos:2:13 @ Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.

ukjv@Amos:2:14 @ Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:

ukjv@Amos:2:15 @ Neither shall he stand that handles the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rides the horse deliver himself.

ukjv@Amos:2:16 @ And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, says the LORD.

ukjv@Amos:3:1 @ Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,