Amos:1-3

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* 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 . * 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 . * Thus saith 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 : * But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael , which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad . * 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 . * 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 : * But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza , which shall devour the palaces thereof : * And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod , and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon , and I will turn mine hand against Ekron : and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish , saith the Lord GOD . * Thus saith 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 : * But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus , which shall devour the palaces thereof . * Thus saith 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 : * But I will send a fire upon Teman , which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah . * 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 : * 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 : * And their king shall go into captivity , he and his princes together , saith the LORD . * Thus saith 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 : * But I will send a fire upon Moab , and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth : and Moab shall die with tumult , with shouting , and with the sound of the trumpet : * And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof , and will slay all the princes thereof with him , saith the LORD . * Thus saith 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 err , after the which their fathers have walked : * But I will send a fire upon Judah , and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem . * Thus saith 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 ; * 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 : * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * And I raised up of your sons for prophets , and of your young men for Nazarites . Is it not even thus , O ye children of Israel ? saith the LORD . * But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink ; and commanded the prophets , saying , Prophesy not . * Behold , I am pressed under you , as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves . * Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift , and the strong shall not strengthen his force , neither shall the mighty deliver himself : * 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 deliver himself . * And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day , saith the LORD . * Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you , O children of Israel , against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt , saying , * You only have I known of all the families of the earth : therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities . * Can two walk together , except they be agreed ? * 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 ? * Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth , where no gin is for him ? shall one take up a snare from the earth , and have taken nothing at all ? * Shall a trumpet be blown in the city , and the people not be afraid ? shall there be evil in a city , and the LORD hath not done it ? * Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing , but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets . * The lion hath roared , who will not fear ? the Lord GOD hath spoken , who can but prophesy ? * Publish in the palaces at Ashdod , 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 . * For they know not to do right , saith the LORD , who store up violence and robbery in their palaces . * 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 . * 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 . * Hear ye , and testify in the house of Jacob , saith the Lord GOD , the God of hosts , * That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel : and the horns of the altar shall be cut off , and fall to the ground . * And I will smite the winter house with the summer house ; and the houses of ivory shall perish , and the great houses shall have an end , saith the LORD . * Hear this word , ye kine of Bashan , that are in the mountain of Samaria , which oppress the poor , which crush the needy , which say to their masters , Bring , and let us drink .

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