THE BOOK OF AMOS

THE THIRTIETH BOOK OF

THE HOLY BIBLE
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SET FORTH IN 1611

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6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and
AMOS for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; be-
cause they carried away captive the whole captivity, to de-
liver them up to Edom:
THE THIRTIETH BOOK OF THE BIBLE
7 But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall
Chapter 1 devour the palaces thereof:

8 And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him
T he 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
that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn
mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philis-
king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. tines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD.

2 And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his 9 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus,
voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither. because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and
remembered not the brotherly covenant:
3 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Dam-
ascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment 10 But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall
thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing devour the palaces thereof.
instruments of iron:
11 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom,
4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
devour the palaces of Benhadad. because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did
cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he
5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the kept his wrath for ever:
inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth
the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria 12 But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the
shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD. palaces of Bozrah.

13 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the chil-

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dren of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the 5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the
punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women palaces of Jerusalem.
with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:
6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel,
14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a
battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind: pair of shoes;

15 And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes 7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the
together, saith the LORD. 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
Chapter 2 name:

8 And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge

T hus 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:
by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned
in the house of their god.

2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the 9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height
palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the
shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet: oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from
beneath.
3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and
will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD. 10 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led
you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land
4 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, of the Amorite.
and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have 11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your
not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children
err, after the which their fathers have walked: of Israel? saith the LORD.

12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded

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the prophets, saying, Prophesy not. 5 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
13 Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that taken nothing at all?
is full of sheaves.
6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not
14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath
strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty not done it?
deliver himself:
7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his
15 Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he secret unto his servants the prophets.
that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall
he that rideth the horse deliver himself. 8 The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD
hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
16 And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee
away naked in that day, saith the LORD. 9 Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the
land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the moun-
Chapter 3 tains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst
thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.

H ear 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,
10 For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store
up violence and robbery in their palaces.

2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: 11 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there
therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring
down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.
3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
12 Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the
4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the
young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing? children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the
corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.

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13 Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord 5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and pro-
GOD, the God of hosts, claim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O
ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
14 That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of
Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the 6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your
horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground. cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not
returned unto me, saith the LORD.
15 And I will smite the winter house with the summer house;
and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses 7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there
shall have an end, saith the LORD. were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to
rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another
Chapter 4 city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon
it rained not withered.

H ear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the moun

tain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush
the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us
8 So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink
water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned
drink. unto me, saith the LORD.

2 The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the 9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your
days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your
hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks. olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet
have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that
which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, 10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of
saith the LORD. Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and
have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of
4 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply trans- your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not
gression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your returned unto me, saith the LORD.
tithes after three years:
11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom
and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of
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the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the 6 Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire
LORD. in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to
quench it in Bethel.
12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because
I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. 7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righ-
teousness in the earth,
13 For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the
wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that 8 Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and
maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh
places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the
name. sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The
LORD is his name:
Chapter 5
9 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that
the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
H ear ye this word which I take up against you, even a
lamentation, O house of Israel.
10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor
2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is him that speaketh uprightly.
forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor,
3 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses
thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted
by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel. pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

4 For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye 12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty
me, and ye shall live: sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn
aside the poor in the gate from their right.
5 But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to
Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel 13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for
shall come to nought. it is an evil time.

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14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the 22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offer-
LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spo- ings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace
ken. offerings of your fat beasts.

15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment 23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will
in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be not hear the melody of thy viols.
gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness
16 Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith as a mighty stream.
thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all
the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husband- 25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the
man to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
wailing.
26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and
17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to
thee, saith the LORD. yourselves.

18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what 27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond
end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
light.
Chapter 6
19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or
went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and
a serpent bit him. W oe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the
mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the
nations, to whom the house of Israel came!
20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light?
Even very dark, and no brightness in it? 2 Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to
Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines:
21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater
your solemn assemblies. than your border?

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3 Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of LORD.
violence to come near;
11 For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite
4 That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon the great house with breaches, and the little house with
their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the clefts.
calves out of the midst of the stall;
12 Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with
5 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to them- oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit
selves instruments of musick, like David; of righteousness into hemlock:

6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the 13 Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have
chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction we not taken to us horns by our own strength?
of Joseph.
14 But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house
7 Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall
captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of
shall be removed. the wilderness.

8 The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the Chapter 7
God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his
palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is
therein. T hus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he
formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting
up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth
9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one after the king’s mowings.
house, that they shall die.
2 And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of
10 And a man’s uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, for-
him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say give, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is
unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any small.
with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy
tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the
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3 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD. land.

4 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the 12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee
Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and proph-
great deep, and did eat up a part. esy there:

5 Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom 13 But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the
shall Jacob arise? for he is small. king’s chapel, and it is the king’s court.

6 The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith 14 Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no
the Lord GOD. prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was an herdman,
and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
7 Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the LORD stood upon a
wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand. 15 And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the
LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
8 And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And
I said, A plumbline. Then said the LORD, Behold, I will set 16 Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou
a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word
pass by them any more: against the house of Isaac.

9 And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the 17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an har-
sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against lot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by
the house of Jeroboam with the sword. the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou
shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into
10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king captivity forth of his land.
of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the
midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all Chapter 8
his words.

11 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword,

and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own
T hus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a
basket of summer fruit.

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2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your
of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon
come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as
any more. the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter
day.
3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day,
saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in 11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will
every place; they shall cast them forth with silence. send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a
thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make
the poor of the land to fail, 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the
north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the
5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, mak-
ing the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the 13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for
balances by deceit? thirst.

6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a 14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god,
pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat? O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even
they shall fall, and never rise up again.
7 The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I
will never forget any of their works. Chapter 9
8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn
that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood;
and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of
I saw the LORD standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite
the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut
them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of
Egypt. them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee
away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD,
that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will 2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take
darken the earth in the clear day:
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them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring saith the LORD.
them down:
9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel
3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall
will search and take them out thence; and though they be not the least grain fall upon the earth.
hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I
command the serpent, and he shall bite them: 10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which
say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies,
thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: 11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is
and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up
good. his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

5 And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, 12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all
and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD
and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, that doeth this.
as by the flood of Egypt.
13 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plow-
6 It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath man shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes
founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet
waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of wine, and all the hills shall melt.
the earth: The LORD is his name.
14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Is-
7 Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O chil- rael, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them;
dren of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof;
out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
and the Syrians from Kir?
15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no
8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful king- more be pulled up out of their land which I have given
dom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; them, saith the LORD thy God.
saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,
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