The Book of the Prophet Amos, Chapter 1

1   The words of Amos, who was among herdsmen of Thecua: which
    he saw concerning Israel in the days of Ozias king of
    Juda, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joas king of
    Israel two years before the earthquake.
2   And he said: The Lord will roar from Sion, and utter his
    voice from Jerusalem: and the beautiful places of the
    shepherds have mourned, and the top of Carmel is withered.
3   Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Damascus, and for
    four I will not convert it: because they have thrashed
    Galaad with iron wains.
4   And I will send a fire into the house of Azael, and it
    shall devour the houses of Benadad.
5   And I will break the bar of Damascus: and I will cut off
    the inhabitants from the plain of the idol, and him that
    holdeth the sceptre from the house of pleasure: and the
    people of Syria shall be carried away to Cyrene, saith the
    Lord.
6   Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Gaza, and for
    four I will not convert it: because they have carried away
    a perfect captivity to shut them up in Edom.
7   And I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, and it shall
    devour the houses thereof.
8   And I will cut off the inhabitant from Azotus, and him
    that holdeth the sceptre from Ascalon: and I will turn my
    hand against Accaron, and the rest of the Philistines
    shall perish, saith the Lord God.
9   Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Tyre, and for
    four I will not convert it: because they have shut up an
    entire captivity in Edom, and have not remembered the
    covenant of brethren.
10  And I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre, and it shall
    devour the houses thereof.
11  Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and for
    four I will not convert him: because he hath pursued his
    brother with the sword, and hath cast off all pity, and
    hath carried on his fury, and hath kept his wrath to the
    end.
12  I will send a fire into Theman: and it shall devour the
    houses of Bosra.
13  Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of the children of
    Ammon, and for four I will not convert him: because he
    hath ripped up the women with child of Galaad to enlarge
    his border.
14  And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabba: and it
    shall devour the houses thereof with shouting in the day
    of battle, and with a whirlwind in the day of trouble.
15  And Melchom shall go into captivity, both he, and his
    princes together, saith the Lord.


            The Book of the Prophet Amos, Chapter 2

1   Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for
    four I will not convert him: because he hath burnt the
    bones of the king of Edom even to ashes.
2   And I will seed a fire into Moab, and it shall devour the
    houses of Carioth: and Moab shall die with a noise, with
    the sound of the trumpet:
3   And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and
    will slay all his princes with him, saith the Lord.
4   Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Juda, and for
    four I will not convert him: because he hath cast away the
    law of the Lord, and hath not kept his commandments: for
    their idols have caused them to err, after which their
    fathers have walked.
5   And I will send a fire into Juda, and it shall devour the
    houses of Jerusalem.
6   Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for
    four I will not convert him: because he hath sold the just
    man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of shoes.
7   They bruise the heads of the poor upon the dust of the
    earth, and turn aside the way of the humble: and the son
    and his father have gone to the same young woman, to
    profane my holy name.
8   And they sat down upon garments laid to pledge by every
    altar: and drank the wine of the condemned in the house of
    their God.
9   Yet I cast out the Amorrhite before their face: whose
    height was like the height of cedars, and who was strong
    as an oak: and I destroyed his fruit from above, and his
    roots beneath.
10  It is I that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and
    I led you forty years through the wilderness, that you
    might possess the land of the Amorrhite.
11  And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your
    young men for Nazarites. Is it not so, O ye children of
    Israel, saith the Lord?
12  And you will present wine to the Nazarites: and command
    the prophets, saying: Prophesy not.
13  Behold, I will screak under you as a wain screaketh that
    is laden with hay.
14  And flight shall perish from the swift, and the valiant
    shall not possess his strength, neither shall the strong
    save his life.
15  And he that holdeth the bow shall not stand, and the swift
    of foot shall not escape, neither shall the rider of the
    horse save his life.
16  And the stout of heart among the valiant shall flee away
    naked in that day, saith the Lord.


            The Book of the Prophet Amos, Chapter 3

1   Hear the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning you, O
    ye children of Israel: concerning the whole family that I
    brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying:
2   You only have I known of all the families of the earth:
    therefore will I visit upon you all your iniquities.
3   Shall two walk together except they be agreed?
4   Will a lion roar in the forest, if he have no prey? will
    the lion's whelp cry out of his den, if he have taken
    nothing ?
5   Will the bird fall into the snare upon the earth, if there
    be no fowler? Shall the snare be taken up from the earth,
    before it hath taken somewhat ?
6   Shall the trumpet sound in a city, and the people not be
    afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, which the Lord hath
    not done?
7   For the Lord God doth nothing without revealing his secret
    to his servants the prophets.
8   The lion shall roar, who will not fear? The Lord God hath
    spoken, who shall not prophesy?
9   Publish it in the houses of Azotus, and in the houses of
    the land of Egypt, and say: Assemble yourselves upon the
    mountains of Samaria, and behold the many follies in the
    midst thereof, and them that suffer oppression in the
    inner rooms thereof.
10  And they have not known to do the right thing, saith the
    Lord, storing up iniquity, and robberies in their houses.
11  Therefore thus saith the Lord God: The land shall be in
    tribulation, and shall be compassed about: and thy
    strength shall be taken away from thee, and thy houses
    shall be spoiled.
12  Thus saith the Lord: As if a shepherd should get out of
    the lion's mouth two legs, or the tip of the ear: so shall
    the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria,
    in a piece of a bed, and in the couch of Damascus.
13  Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord
    the God of hosts:
14  That in the day when I shall begin to visit the
    transgressions of Israel, I will visit upon him, and upon
    the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altars shall be
    cut off, and shall fall to the ground.
15  And I will strike the winter house with the summer house:
    and the houses of ivory shall perish, and many houses
    shall be destroyed, saith the Lord.


            The Book of the Prophet Amos, Chapter 4

1   Hear this word, ye fat kine that are in the mountains of
    Samaria: you that oppress the needy, and crush the poor:
    that say to your masters: Bring, and we will drink.
2   The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that lo, the days
    shall come upon you, when they shall lift you up on pikes,
    and what shall remain of you in boiling pots.
3   And you shall go out at the breaches one over against the
    other, and you shall be cast forth into Armon, saith the
    Lord.
4   Come ye to Bethel, and do wickedly: to Galgal, and
    multiply transgressions: and bring in the morning your
    victims, your tithes in three days.
5   And offer a sacrifice of praise with leaven: and call free
    offerings, and proclaim it: for so you would do, O
    children of Israel, saith the Lord God.
6   Whereupon I also have given you dulness of teeth in all
    your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet you
    have not returned to me, saith the Lord.
7   I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were
    yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain
    upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another
    city: one piece was rained upon: and the piece whereupon
    I rained not, withered.
8   And two and three cities went to one city to drink water,
    and were not filled: yet you returned not to me, saith the
    Lord.
9   I struck you with a burning wind, and with mildew, the
    palmerworm hath eaten up your many gardens, and your
    vineyards: your olive groves, and fig groves: yet you
    returned not to me, saith the Lord.
10  I sent death upon you in the way of Egypt, I slew your
    young men with the sword, even to the captivity of your
    horses: and I made the stench of your camp to come up into
    your nostrils: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord.
11  I destroyed some of you, as God destroyed Sodom and
    Gomorrha, and you were as a firebrand plucked out of the
    burning: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord.
12  Therefore I will do these things to thee, O Israel: and
    after I shall have done these things to thee, be prepared
    to meet thy God, O Israel.
13  For behold he that formeth the mountains and createth the
    wind, and declareth his word to man, he that maketh the
    morning mist, and walketh upon the high places of the
    earth: the Lord the God of hosts is his name.


            The Book of the Prophet Amos, Chapter 5

1   Hear ye this word, which I take up concerning you for a
    lamentation. The house of Israel is fallen, and it shall
    rise no more.
2   The virgin of Israel is cast down upon her land, there is
    none to raise her up.
3   For thus saith the Lord God: The city, out of which came
    forth a thousand, there shall be left in it a hundred: and
    out of which there came a hundred, there shall be left in
    it ten, in the house of Israel.
4   For thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek ye
    me, and you shall live.
5   But seek not Bethel, and go not into Galgal, neither shall
    you pass over to Bersabee: for Galgal shall go into
    captivity, and Bethel shall be unprofitable.
6   Seek ye the Lord, and live: lest the house of Joseph be
    burnt with fire, and it shall devour, and there shall be
    none to quench Bethel.
7   You that turn judgment into wormwood, and forsake justice
    in the land,
8   Seek him that maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and that turneth
    darkness into morning, and that changeth day into night:
    that calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out
    upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.
9   He that with a smile bringeth destruction upon the strong,
    and waste upon the mighty.
10  They have hated him that rebuketh in the gate: and have
    abhorred him that speaketh perfectly.
11  Therefore because you robbed the poor, and took the choice
    prey from him: you shall build houses with square stone,
    and shall not dwell in them: you shall plant most
    delightful vineyards, and shall not drink the wine of
    them.
12  Because I know your manifold crimes, and your grievous
    sine: enemies of the just, taking bribes, and oppressing
    the poor in the gate.
13  Therefore the prudent shall keep silence at that time, for
    it is an evil time.
14  Seek ye good, and not evil, that you may live: and the
    Lord the God of hosts will be with you, as you have said.
15  Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the
    gate: it may be the Lord the God of hosts may have mercy
    on the remnant of Joseph.
16  Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of hosts the
    sovereign Lord: In every street there shall be wailing:
    and in all places that are without, they shall say: Alas,
    alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and
    such as are skilful in lamentation to lament.
17  And in all vineyards there shall be wailing: because I
    will pass through in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.
18  Woe to them that desire the day of the Lord: to what end
    is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not
    light.
19  As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a
    bear should meet him: or enter into the house, and lean
    with his hand upon the wall, and a serpent should bite
    him.
20  Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light:
    and obscurity, and no brightness in it?
21  I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not
    receive the odour of your assemblies.
22  And if you offer me holocausts, and your gifts, I will not
    receive them: neither will I regard the vows of your fat
    beasts.
23  Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: and I will not
    hear the canticles of thy harp.
24  But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a
    mighty torrent.
25  Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert
    for forty years, O house of Israel?
26  But you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch, and the
    image of your idols, the star of your god, which you made
    to yourselves.
27  And I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,
    saith the Lord, the God of hosts is his name.


            The Book of the Prophet Amos, Chapter 6

1   Woe to you that are wealthy in Sion, and to you that have
    confidence in the mountain of Samaria: ye great men, heads
    of the people, that go in with state into the house of
    Israel.
2   Pass ye over to Chalane, and see, and go from thence into
    Emath the great: and go down into Geth of the Philistines,
    and to all the best kingdoms of these: if their border be
    larger than your border.
3   You that are separated unto the evil day: and that
    approach to the throne of iniquity;
4   You that sleep upon beds of ivory, and are wanton on your
    couches: that eat the lambs out of the flock, and the
    calves out of the midst of the herd;
5   You that sing to the sound of the psaltery: they have
    thought themselves to have instruments of music like
    David;
6   That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the
    best ointments: and they are not concerned for the
    affliction of Joseph.
7   Wherefore now they shall go captive at the head of them
    that go into captivity: and the faction of the luxurious
    ones shall be taken away.
8   The Lord God hath sworn by his own soul, saith the Lord
    the God of hosts: I detest the pride of Jacob, and I hate
    his houses, and I will deliver up the city with the
    inhabitants thereof.
9   And if there remain ten men in one house, they also shall
    die.
10  And a man's kinsman shall take him up, and shall burn him,
    that he may carry the bones out of the house; and he shall
    say to him that is in the inner rooms of the house: Is
    there yet any with thee?
11  And he shall answer: There is an end. And he shall any to
    him: Hold thy peace, and mention not the name of the Lord.
12  For behold the Lord hath commanded, and he will strike the
    greater house with breaches, and the lesser house with
    clefts.
13  Can horses run upon the rocks, or can any one plough with
    buffles? for you have turned judgment into bitterness, and
    the fruit of justice into wormwood.
14  You that rejoice in a thing of nought: you that say: Have
    we not taken unto us horns by our own strength?
15  But behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house
    of Israel, saith the Lord the God of hosts; and they shall
    destroy you from the entrance of Emath, even to the
    torrent of the desert.


            The Book of the Prophet Amos, Chapter 7

1   These things the Lord God shewed to me: and behold the
    locust was formed in the beginning of the shooting up of
    the latter rain, and lo, it was the latter rain after the
    king's mowing.
2   And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of
    eating the grass of the land, I said: O Lord God, be
    merciful, I beseech thee: who shall raise up Jacob, for he
    is very little?
3   The Lord had pity upon this: It shall not be, said the
    Lord.
4   These things the Lord God shewed to me: and behold the
    Lord called for judgment unto fire, and it devoured the
    great deep, and ate up a part at the same time.
5   And I said: O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee, who shall
    raise up Jacob, for he is a little one?
6   The Lord had pity upon this. Yea this also shall not be,
    said the Lord God.
7   These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold the Lord
    was standing upon a plastered wall, and in his hand a
    mason's trowel.
8   And the Lord said to me: What seest thou, Amos? And I
    said: A mason's trowel. And the Lord said: Behold, I will
    lay down the trowel in the midst of my people Israel. I
    will plaster them over no more.
9   And the high places of the idol shall be thrown down, and
    the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste: and I will
    rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
10  And Amasias the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of
    Israel, saying: Amos hath rebelled against thee in the
    midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear
    all his words.
11  For thus saith Amos: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and
    Israel shall be carried away captive out of their own
    land.
12  And Amasias said to Amos: Thou seer, go, flee away into
    the land of Juda: and eat bread there, and prophesy there.
13  But prophesy not again any more in Bethel: because it is
    the king's sanctuary, and it is the house of the kingdom.
14  And Amos answered and said to Amasias: I am not a prophet,
    nor am I the son of a prophet: but I am a herdsman
    plucking wild figs.
15  And the Lord took me when I followed the flock, and the
    Lord said to me: Go, prophesy to my people Israel.
16  And now hear thou the word of the Lord: Thou sayest, thou
    shalt not prophesy against Israel, and thou shalt not drop
    thy word upon the house of the idol.
17  Therefore thus saith the Lord: Thy wife shall play the
    harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall
    fall by the sword, and thy land shall be measured by a
    line: and thou shalt die in a polluted land, and Israel
    shall go into captivity out of their land.


            The Book of the Prophet Amos, Chapter 8

1   These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold a hook to
    draw down the fruit.
2   And he said: What seest thou, Amos? And I said: A hook to
    draw down fruit. And the Lord said to me: The end is come
    upon my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any
    more.
3   And the hinges of the temple shall screak in that day,
    saith the Lord God: many shall die: silence shall be cast
    in every place.
4   Hear this, you that crush the poor, and make the needy of
    the land to fail,
5   Saying: When will the month be over, and we shall sell our
    wares: and the sabbath, and we shall open the corn: that
    we may lessen the measure, and increase the sicle, and may
    convey in deceitful balances,
6   That we may possess the needy for money, and the poor for
    a pair of shoes, and may sell the refuse of the corn?
7   The Lord hath sworn against the pride of Jacob: surely I
    will never forget all their works.
8   Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn
    that dwelleth therein: and rise up altogether as a river,
    and be cast out, and run down as the river of Egypt?
9   And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God,
    that the sun shall go down at midday, and I will make the
    earth dark in the day of light:
10  And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your
    songs into lamentation: and I will bring up sackcloth upon
    every back of yours, and baldness upon every head: and I
    will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the
    latter end thereof as a bitter day.
11  Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will send
    forth a famine into the land: not a famine of bread, nor
    a thirst of water, but of hearing the word of the Lord.
12  And they shall move from sea to sea, and from the north to
    the east: they shall go about seeking the word of the
    Lord, and shall not find it.
13  In that day the fair virgins, and the young men shall
    faint for thirst.
14  They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say: Thy God,
    O Dan, liveth: and the way of Bersabee liveth: and they
    shall fall, and shall rise no more.


            The Book of the Prophet Amos, Chapter 9

1   I saw the Lord standing upon the altar, and he said:
    Strike the hinges, and let the lintels be shook: for there
    is covetousness in the head of them all, and I will slay
    the last of them with the sword: there shall be no flight
    for them: they shall flee, and he that shall flee of them
    shall not be delivered.
2   Though they go down even to hell, thence shall my hand
    bring them out: and though they climb up to heaven, thence
    will I bring them down.
3   And though they be hid in the top of Carmel, I will search
    and take them away from thence : and though they hide
    themselves from my eyes in the depth of the sea, there
    will I command the serpent and he shall bite them.
4   And if they go into captivity before their enemies, there
    will I command the sword, and it shall kill them. And I
    will set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
5   And the Lord the God of hosts is he who toucheth the
    earth, and it shall melt: and all that dwell therein shall
    mourn: and it shall rise up as a river, and shall run down
    as the river of Egypt.
6   He that buildeth his ascension in heaven, and hath founded
    his bundle upon the earth: who calleth the waters of the
    sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth, the
    Lord is his name.
7   Are not you as the children of the Ethiopians unto me, O
    children of Israel, saith the Lord? did not I bring up
    Israel, out of the land of Egypt: and the Philistines out
    of Cappadocia, and the Syrians out of Cyrene?
8   Behold the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful
    kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth:
    but yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,
    saith the Lord.
9   For behold I will command, and I will sift the house of
    Israel among all nations, as corn is sifted in a sieve:
    and there shall not a little stone fall to the ground.
10  All the sinners of my people shall fall by the sword: who
    say: The evils shall not approach, and shall not come upon
    us.
11  In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David, that
    is fallen: and I will close up the breaches of the walls
    thereof, and repair what was fallen: and I will rebuild it
    as in the days of old.
12  That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all
    nations, because my name is invoked upon them: saith the
    Lord that doth these things.
13  Behold the days come, saith the Lord, when the ploughman
    shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him
    that soweth seed: and the mountains shall drop sweetness,
    and every hill shall be tilled.
14  And I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel:
    and they shall build the abandoned cities, and inhabit
    them: and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine
    of them: and shall make gardens, and eat the fruits of
    them. And I will plant them upon their own land: and I
    will no more pluck them out of their land which I have
    given them, saith the Lord thy God.