King James VersionAmos1

Amos

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. 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. 3 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: 4 But I will send a fire into the house of Haz­a­el, which shall de­vour the palaces of Ben­hadad. 5 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. 6 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: 7 But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall de­vour the palaces there­of: 8 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. 9 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: 10 But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall de­vour the palaces there­of. 11 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: 12 But I will send a fire upon Te­man, which shall de­vour the palaces of Bozrah. 13 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: 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: 15 And their king shall go into cap­tiv­i­ty, he and his princes to­geth­er, saith the LORD.