Amos 1:1-15

1 The words of A´mos, who happened to be among the sheep raisers from Te·ko´a, which he visioned concerning Israel in the days of Uz·zi´ah the king of Judah and in the days of Jer·o·bo´am the son of Jo´ash, the king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. 2 And he proceeded to say:

“Yehowah—out of Zion he will roar, and out of Jerusalem he will give forth his voice; and the pasture grounds of the shepherds must go to mourning, and the summit of Car´mel must dry up.”

3 “This is what Yehowah has said, ‘“On account of three revolts of Damascus, and on account of four, I shall not turn it back, on account of their threshing Gil´e·ad even with iron threshing instruments. 4 And I will send a fire onto the house of Haz´a·el, and it must devour the dwelling towers of Ben-ha´dad. 5 And I will break the bar of Damascus and cut off [the] inhabitant from Bik´ath-a´ven, and the holder of [the] scepter from Beth-e´den; and the people of Syria will have to go as exiles to Kir,” Yehowah has said.’

6 “This is what Yehowah has said, ‘“On account of three revolts of Ga´za, and on account of four, I shall not turn it back, on account of their taking into exile a complete body of exiles to hand over to E´dom. 7 And I will send a fire onto the wall of Ga´za, and it must devour her dwelling towers. 8 And I will cut off [the] inhabitant from Ash´dod, and the holder of [the] scepter from Ash´ke·lon; and I will turn my hand back upon Ek´ron, and the remaining ones of the Phi·lis´tines must perish,” the Sovereign Lord Yehowah has said.’

9 “This is what Yehowah has said, ‘On account of three revolts of Tyre, and on account of four, I shall not turn it back, on account of their handing over a complete body of exiles to E´dom, and [because] they did not remember the covenant of brothers. 10 And I will send a fire onto the wall of Tyre, and it must devour her dwelling towers.’

11 “This is what Yehowah has said, ‘On account of three revolts of E´dom, and on account of four, I shall not turn it back, on account of his pursuing his own brother with the sword, and [because] he ruined his [own] merciful qualities, and his anger keeps tearing away forever; and his fury—he has kept it perpetually. 12 And I will send a fire into Te´man, and it must devour the dwelling towers of Boz´rah.’

13 “This is what Yehowah has said, ‘“On account of three revolts of the sons of Am´mon, and on account of four, I shall not turn it back, on account of their slitting open the pregnant women of Gil´e·ad, for the purpose of widening out their own territory. 14 And I will set fire to the wall of Rab´bah, and it must devour her dwelling towers, with an alarm signal in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of storm wind. 15 And their king must go into exile, he and his princes together,” Yehowah has said.’

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