1:1 The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa; what
 he saw about 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 earth-shock.
1:2 And he said, The Lord will give a lion's cry from Zion, his
 voice will be sounding from Jerusalem; and the fields of the
 keepers of sheep will become dry, and the top of Carmel will be
 wasted away.
1:3 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of
 Damascus, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed;
 because they have been crushing Gilead with iron grain-crushing
 instruments.
1:4 And I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, burning up
 the great houses of Ben-hadad.
1:5 And I will have the locks of the door of Damascus broken,
 and him who is seated in power cut off from the valley of Aven,
 and him in whose hand is the rod from the house of Eden; and
 the people of Aram will go away as prisoners into Kir, says the
 Lord.
1:6 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Gaza,
 and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they
 took all the people away prisoners, to give them up to Edom.
1:7 And I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, burning up its
 great houses:
1:8 Him who is seated in power I will have cut off from Ashdod,
 and him in whose hand is the rod from Ashkelon; and my hand
 will be turned against Ekron, and the rest of the Philistines
 will come to destruction, says the Lord God.
1:9 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Tyre,
 and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they
 gave up all the people prisoners to Edom, without giving a
 thought to the brothers' agreement between them.
1:10 And I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, burning up its
 great houses.
1:11 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Edom,
 and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because his
 sword was turned against his brother, without pity, and his
 wrath was burning at all times, and he was angry for ever.
1:12 And I will send a fire on Teman, burning up the great
 houses of Bozrah.
1:13 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of the
 children of Ammon, and for four, I will not let its fate be
 changed; because in Gilead they had women with child cut open,
 so that they might make wider the limits of their land.
1:14 And I will make a fire in the wall of Rabbah, burning up
 its great houses, with loud cries in the days of war, with a
 storm in the day of the great wind:
1:15 And their king will be made prisoner, he and his captains
 together, says the Lord.
2:1 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Moab,
 and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because he
 had the bones of the king of Edom burned to dust.
2:2 And I will send a fire on Moab, burning up the great houses
 of Kerioth: and death will come on Moab with noise and outcries
 and the sound of the horn:
2:3 And I will have the judge cut off from among them, and all
 their captains I will put to death with him, says the Lord.
2:4 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Judah,
 and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they
 have given up the law of the Lord, and have not kept his rules;
 and their false ways, in which their fathers went, have made
 them go out of the right way.
2:5 And I will send a fire on Judah, burning up the great houses
 of Jerusalem.
2:6 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Israel,
 and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they
 have given the upright man for silver, and the poor for the
 price of two shoes;
2:7 Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the
 gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the
 same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:
2:8 By every altar they are stretched on clothing taken from
 those who are in their debt, drinking in the house of their god
 the wine of those who have made payment for wrongdoing.
2:9 Though I sent destruction on the Amorite before them, who
 was tall as the cedar and strong as the oak-tree, cutting off
 his fruit from on high and his roots from under the earth.
2:10 And I took you up out of the land of Egypt, guiding you for
 forty years in the waste land, so that you might take for your
 heritage the land of the Amorite.
2:11 And some of your sons I made prophets, and some of your
 young men I made separate for myself. Is it not even so, O
 children of Israel? says the Lord.
2:12 But to those who were separate you gave wine for drink; and
 to the prophets you said, Be prophets no longer.
2:13 See, I am crushing you down, as one is crushed under a cart
 full of grain.
2:14 And flight will be impossible for the quick-footed, and the
 force of the strong will become feeble, and the man of war will
 not get away safely:
2:15 And the bowman will not keep his place; he who is
 quick-footed will not get away safely: and the horseman will
 not keep his life.
2:16 And he who is without fear among the fighting men will go
 in flight without his clothing in that day, says the Lord.
3:1 Give ear to this word which the Lord has said against you, O
 children of Israel, against all the family which I took up out
 of the land of Egypt, saying,
3:2 You only of all the families of the earth have I taken care
 of: for this reason I will send punishment on you for all your
 sins.
3:3 Is it possible for two to go walking together, if not by
 agreement?
3:4 Will a lion give his loud cry in the woodland when no food
 is there? will the voice of the young lion be sounding from his
 hole if he has taken nothing?
3:5 Is it possible for a bird to be taken in a net on the earth
 where no net has been put for him? will the net come up from
 the earth if it has taken nothing at all?
3:6 If the horn is sounded in the town will the people not be
 full of fear? will evil come on a town if the Lord has not done
 it?
3:7 Certainly the Lord will do nothing without making clear his
 secret to his servants, the prophets.
3:8 The cry of the lion is sounding; who will not have fear? The
 Lord God has said the word; is it possible for the prophet to
 keep quiet?
3:9 Give out the news in the great houses of Assyria and in the
 land of Egypt, and say, Come together on the mountains of
 Samaria, and see what great outcries are there, and what cruel
 acts are done in it.
3:10 For they have no knowledge of how to do what is right, says
 the Lord, who are storing up violent acts and destruction in
 their great houses.
3:11 For this reason, says the Lord, an attacker will come,
 shutting in the land on every side; and your strength will come
 down and your great houses will be made waste.
3:12 These are the words of the Lord: As the keeper of sheep
 takes out of the mouth of the lion two legs or part of an ear;
 so will the children of Israel be made safe, who are resting in
 Samaria on seats of honour or on the silk cushions of a bed.
3:13 Give ear now, and give witness against the family of Jacob,
 says the Lord God, the God of armies;
3:14 For in the day when I give Israel punishment for his sins,
 I will send punishment on the altars of Beth-el, and the horns
 of the altar will be cut off and come down to the earth.
3:15 And I will send destruction on the winter house with the
 summer house; the ivory houses will be falling down and the
 great houses will come to an end, says the Lord.
4:1 Give ear to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the
 hill of Samaria, by whom the poor are kept down, and those in
 need are crushed; who say to their lords, Get out the wine and
 give us drink.
4:2 The Lord God has taken an oath by his holy name, that the
 days are coming when they will take you away with hooks, and
 the rest of you with fish-hooks.
4:3 And you will go out through the broken places, every one
 going straight before her, and you will be sent into Harmon,
 says the Lord.
4:4 Come to Beth-el and do evil; to Gilgal, increasing the
 number of your sins; come with your offerings every morning and
 your tenths every three days:
4:5 Let that which is leavened be burned as a praise-offering,
 let the news of your free offerings be given out publicly; for
 this is pleasing to you, O children of Israel, says the Lord.
4:6 But in all your towns I have kept food from your teeth, and
 in all your places there has been need of bread: and still you
 have not come back to me, says the Lord.
4:7 And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still
 three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town
 and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the
 part where there was no rain became a waste.
4:8 So two or three towns went wandering to one town looking for
 water, and did not get enough: and still you have not come back
 to me, says the Lord.
4:9 I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and
 disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens,
 your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms:
 and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.
4:10 I have sent disease among you, as it was in Egypt: I have
 put your young men to the sword, and have taken away your
 horses; I have made the evil smell from your tents come up to
 your noses: and still you have not come back to me, says the
 Lord.
4:11 And I have sent destruction among you, as when God sent
 destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning
 stick pulled out of the fire: and still you have not come back
 to me, says the Lord.
4:12 So this is what I will do to you, O Israel: and because I
 will do this to you, be ready for a meeting with your God, O
 Israel.
4:13 For see, he who gave form to the mountains and made the
 wind, giving knowledge of his purpose to man, who makes the
 morning dark, and is walking on the high places of the earth:
 the Lord, the God of armies, is his name.
5:1 Give ear to this word, my song of sorrow over you, O
 children of Israel.
5:2 The virgin of Israel has been made low, never again to be
 lifted up: she is stretched out by herself on her land; there
 is no one to put her on her feet again.
5:3 For these are the words of the Lord God: The town which was
 able to send out a thousand, will have only a hundred; and that
 which sent out a hundred, will have only ten, in Israel.
5:4 For these are the words of the Lord to the children of
 Israel: Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have
 life:
5:5 Do not be looking for help to Beth-el, and do not go to
 Gilgal, or make your way to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal will
 certainly be taken prisoner, and Beth-el will come to nothing.
5:6 Go to the Lord for help so that you may have life; for fear
 that he may come like fire bursting out in the family of
 Joseph, causing destruction, and there will be no one to put it
 out in Beth-el.
5:7 You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing
 down righteousness to the earth;
5:8 Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom
 the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black
 with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea,
 sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his
 name;
5:9 Who sends sudden destruction on the strong, so that
 destruction comes on the walled town.
5:10 They have hate for him who makes protest against evil in
 the public place, and he whose words are upright is disgusting
 to them.
5:11 So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you
 take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves
 houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them;
 the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you
 wine.
5:12 For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how
 strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take
 rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public
 place.
5:13 So the wise will say nothing in that time; for it is an
 evil time.
5:14 Go after good and not evil, so that life may be yours: and
 so the Lord, the God of armies, will be with you, as you say.
5:15 Be haters of evil and lovers of good, and let right be done
 in the public place: it may be that the Lord, the God of
 armies, will have mercy on the rest of Joseph.
5:16 So these are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the
 Lord: There will be weeping in all the open spaces; and in all
 the streets they will say, Sorrow! sorrow! and they will get in
 the farmer to the weeping, and the makers of sad songs to give
 cries of grief.
5:17 In all the vine-gardens there will be cries of grief: for I
 will go through among you, says the Lord.
5:18 Sorrow to you who are looking for the day of the Lord! what
 is the day of the Lord to you? it is dark and not light.
5:19 As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face
 with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the
 wall and got a bite from a snake.
5:20 Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even
 very dark, with no light shining in it?
5:21 Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do
 with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings.
5:22 Even if you give me your burned offerings and your meal
 offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: I will have
 nothing to do with the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.
5:23 Take away from me the noise of your songs; my ears are shut
 to the melody of your instruments.
5:24 But let the right go rolling on like waters, and
 righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
5:25 Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal
 offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?
5:26 Truly, you will take up Saccuth your king and Kaiwan your
 images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.
5:27 And I will send you away as prisoners farther than
 Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of armies.
6:1 Sorrow to those who are resting in comfort in Zion, and to
 those who have no fear of danger in the mountain of Samaria,
 the noted men of the chief of the nations, to whom the people
 of Israel come!
6:2 Go on to Calneh and see; and from there go to Hamath the
 great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines: are you better
 than these kingdoms? or is your land wider than theirs?
6:3 You who put far away the evil day, causing the rule of the
 violent to come near;
6:4 Who are resting on beds of ivory, stretched out on soft
 seats, feasting on lambs from the flock and young oxen from the
 cattle-house;
6:5 Making foolish songs to the sound of corded instruments, and
 designing for themselves instruments of music, like David;
6:6 Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best
 oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph.
6:7 So now they will go away prisoners with the first of those
 who are made prisoners, and the loud cry of those who were
 stretched out will come to an end.
6:8 The Lord God has taken an oath by himself, says the Lord,
 the God of armies: the pride of Jacob is disgusting to me, and
 I have hate for his great houses: so I will give up the town
 with everything in it.
6:9 Then it will come about that if there are still ten men in a
 house, death will overtake them.
6:10 And when a man's relation, even the one who is responsible
 for burning his body, lifting him up to take his bones out of
 the house, says to him who is in the inmost part of the house,
 Is there still anyone with you? and he says, No; then he will
 say, Keep quiet, for the name of the Lord may not be named.
6:11 For see, at the order of the Lord the great house will be
 full of cracks and the little house will be broken.
6:12 Is it possible for horses to go running on the rock? may
 the sea be ploughed with oxen? for the right to be turned by
 you into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into a bitter
 plant?
6:13 You whose joy is in a thing of no value, who say, Have we
 not taken for ourselves horns by the strength which is ours?
6:14 For see, I will send against you a nation, O Israel, says
 the Lord, the God of armies, ruling you cruelly from the way
 into Hamath as far as the stream of the Arabah.
7:1 This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw that, when
 the growth of the late grass was starting, he made locusts; it
 was the late growth after the king's cutting was done.
7:2 And it came about that after they had taken all the grass of
 the land, I said, O Lord God, have mercy: how will Jacob be
 able to keep his place? for he is small.
7:3 The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, It will not
 be.
7:4 This is what the Lord let me see: and I saw that the Lord
 God sent for a great fire to be the instrument of his
 punishment; and, after burning up the great deep, it was about
 to put an end to the Lord's heritage.
7:5 Then said I, O Lord God, let there be an end: how will Jacob
 be able to keep his place? for he is small.
7:6 The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, And this
 will not be.
7:7 This is what he let me see: and I saw the Lord stationed by
 a wall made straight by a weighted line, and he had a weighted
 line in his hand.
7:8 And the Lord said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said,
 A weighted line. Then the Lord said, See, I will let down a
 weighted line among my people Israel; never again will my eyes
 be shut to their sin:
7:9 And the high places of Isaac will be unpeopled, and the holy
 places of Israel will be made waste; and I will come up against
 the family of Jeroboam with the sword.
7:10 Then Amaziah, the priest of Beth-el, sent to Jeroboam, king
 of Israel, saying, Amos has made designs against you among the
 people of Israel: the land is troubled by his words.
7:11 For Amos has said, Jeroboam will be put to the sword, and
 Israel will certainly be taken away as a prisoner out of his
 land.
7:12 And Amaziah said to Amos, O seer, go in flight into the
 land of Judah, and there get your living by working as a
 prophet:
7:13 But be a prophet no longer at Beth-el: for it is the holy
 place of the king, and the king's house.
7:14 Then Amos in answer said to Amaziah, I am no prophet, or
 one of the sons of the prophets; I am a herdman and one who
 takes care of sycamore-trees:
7:15 And the Lord took me from the flock, and the Lord said to
 me, Go, be a prophet to my people Israel.
7:16 Now then, give ear to the word of the Lord: You say, Be no
 prophet to Israel, and say not a word against the people of
 Isaac.
7:17 So this is what the Lord has said: Your wife will be a
 loose woman in the town, and your sons and your daughters will
 be put to the sword, and your land will be cut up into parts by
 a line; and you yourself will come to your end in an unclean
 land, and Israel will certainly be taken away a prisoner out of
 his land.
8:1 This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw a basket of
 summer fruit.
8:2 And he said, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A basket of
 summer fruit. Then the Lord said to me, The end has come to my
 people Israel; never again will my eyes be shut to their sin.
8:3 And the songs of the king's house will be cries of pain in
 that day, says the Lord God: great will be the number of the
 dead bodies, and everywhere they will put them out without a
 word.
8:4 Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose
 purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,
8:5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do
 trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the
 market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and
 the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit;
8:6 Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the
 price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of
 the grain.
8:7 The Lord has taken an oath by the pride of Jacob, Truly I
 will ever keep in mind all their works.
8:8 Will not the land be shaking with fear because of this, and
 everyone in it have sorrow? and all of it will be overflowing
 like the River; and it will be troubled and go down again like
 the River of Egypt.
8:9 And it will come about in that day, says the Lord God, that
 I will make the sun go down in the middle of the day, and I
 will make the earth dark in daylight:
8:10 Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody
 into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth,
 and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping
 like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.
8:11 See, the days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will
 send times of great need on the land, not need of food or
 desire for water, but for hearing the words of the Lord.
8:12 And they will go wandering from sea to sea, and from the
 north even to the east, running here and there in search of the
 word of the Lord, and they will not get it.
8:13 In that day the fair virgins and the young men will be
 feeble from need of water.
8:14 Those who make their oaths by the sin of Samaria and say,
 By the life of your God, O Dan; and, By the living way of
 Beer-sheba; even they will go down, never again to be lifted
 up.
9:1 I saw the Lord stationed by the side of the altar, giving
 blows to the tops of the pillars so that the doorsteps were
 shaking: and he said, I will let all of them be broken with
 earth-shocks; I will put the last of them to the sword: if any
 one of them goes in flight he will not get away, not one of
 them will be safe.
9:2 Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take
 them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them
 down:
9:3 Though they take cover on the top of Carmel, I will go in
 search of them and get them out; though they keep themselves
 from my eyes in the bed of the sea, I will give orders to the
 great snake there and he will give them a bite:
9:4 And though they are taken away as prisoners by their
 attackers, even there will I give orders to the sword to put
 them to death: my eyes will be fixed on them for evil and not
 for good.
9:5 For the Lord, the God of armies, is he at whose touch the
 land is turned to water, and everyone in it will be given up to
 sorrow; all of it will be overflowing like the River, and will
 go down again like the River of Egypt;
9:6 It is he who makes his rooms in the heaven, basing his arch
 on the earth; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea,
 and sends them flowing over the face of the earth; the Lord is
 his name.
9:7 Are you not as the children of the Ethiopians to me, O
 children of Israel? says the Lord. Have I not taken Israel up
 out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and
 the Aramaeans from Kir?
9:8 See, the eyes of the Lord are on the evil kingdom, and I
 will put an end to it in all the earth; but I will not send
 complete destruction on Jacob, says the Lord.
9:9 For see, I will give orders, and I will have Israel moved
 about among all the nations, as grain is moved about by the
 shaking of the tray, but not the smallest seed will be dropped
 on the earth.
9:10 All those sinners among my people will be put to the sword
 who say, Evil will not overtake us or come face to face with
 us.
9:11 In that day I will put up the tent of David which has come
 down, and make good its broken places; and I will put up again
 his damaged walls, building it up as in the past;
9:12 So that the rest of Edom may be their heritage, and all the
 nations who have been named by my name, says the Lord, who is
 doing this.
9:13 See, the days will come, says the Lord, when the ploughman
 will overtake him who is cutting the grain, and the crusher of
 the grapes him who is planting seed; and sweet wine will be
 dropping from the mountains, and the hills will be turned into
 streams of wine.
9:14 And I will let the fate of my people Israel be changed, and
 they will be building up again the waste towns and living in
 them; they will again be planting vine-gardens and taking the
 wine for their drink; and they will make gardens and get the
 fruit of them.
9:15 And I will have them planted in their land, and never again
 will they be uprooted from their land which I have given them,
 says the Lord your God.
