The prophetic book of Amos
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Verse by verse, account of the book of Amos.

Amos: chapter 1

¹The words of the prophet Amos and that which he saw concerning Israel, whom was among the shepherds. In the days of Uzziah king of Judah and Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake, (762bc.). ²And he said; The LORD roars from Zion and His voice can be heard from Jerusalem. The green pastures of the shepherds shall mourn and the fertile lands shall dry up.

The LORD's judgment on the city of Syria.

³Because of their abundant transgressions, I will not turn a blind eye on the city of Syria. Because they have oppressed My people in Gilead. ⁴I will burn the king's palace. ⁵I will break the gates of the city. The inhabitants shall be cut off and the people shall be exiled back to the land of Kir, says the LORD.

The LORD's judgment on the Philistine cities.

⁶Because of their abundant transgressions, I will not turn a blind eye on the Philistine city of Gath. Because as slave traders, they delivered the entire captivity of My people up to Edom to be sold. ⁷I will send fire on the principal city of Gaza and shall consume its palaces. ⁸I will also cut of the inhabitants of the other Philistine cities and destroy them, cutting off the king from the people. I will turn My hand against them and even the remnant of the Philistine people shall perish, says the LORD.

The LORD's judgment on the city of Tyre.

⁹Because of their abundant transgressions, I will not turn a blind eye on the city of Tyre. For they broke the covenant of brotherhood and delivered up the entire captivity of My people up to Edom. ¹⁰I will send fire on the wall of Tyre and it shall devour its palaces, says the LORD.

The LORD's judgment on the people of Edom.

¹¹Because of their abundant transgressions, I will not turn a blind eye on the people of Edom. Because they have pursued his brother, Israel with the sword, casting off all pity, for their anger and wrath is everlasting. ¹²Therefore I shall send fire on your chief city of Teman and burn up their palaces, says the LORD.

The LORD's judgment on the people of Ammon.

¹³Because of their abundant transgressions, I will not turn a blind eye on the people of Ammon, (Lot's descendants). Because they have cut open the pregnant Israelite women in Gilead, merely that they might take the land. ¹⁴I will kindle a fire within their chief city of Rabbah and destroy its palaces. ¹⁵And their king and his princess shall go into captivity, says the LORD.

Amos: chapter 2

The LORD's judgment on the transgressions of Moab.

¹Because of their abundant transgressions, I will not turn a blind eye on the people of Moab, (Lot's descendants). Because they burnt the bones of the king of Edom, (Esau's descendants), to ashes, in much vengeance. ²I will send a fire down upon Moab and it shall devour its chief city of Kerioth and its palaces. Moab shall be defeated and die with much shouting and in much turmoil. ³I shall cut down its king and slay its princess, says the LORD.

The LORD's judgment on the people of Judah.

⁴Because of their abundant transgressions, I will not turn a blind eye on the people of Judah. Because they have despised the law of the LORD, not keeping His commandments and have been led astray by the lies that their fathers followed. ⁵I will send fire upon Judah and it shall burn up the palaces of Jerusalem. Say the LORD.

The LORD's judgment on the transgressions of Israel.

⁶Because of their abundant transgressions, I will not turn a blind eye on the people of Israel. Because they sell the righteous for profit and use the poor for their own gain. ⁷They lust after wealth at the expense of others and pervert the way of justice. Father and son go into the same prostitute, thus they defile My holy name. ⁸They leave their pledge on every altar and drink the wine of the condemned in the house of foreign gods. ⁹Yet, have they forgotten, it was I who once fought battles against great men for them. ¹⁰Also I brought them up from the land of Egypt and lead them forty years through the wilderness, to posses the promise land. ¹¹I raised up some of their sons as priests and prophets. Tell Me if it's not so? ¹²But they perverted the priests and silenced the prophets. ¹³Behold, you are a burden to me, as chaff is to the farmer. ¹⁴Therefore, your strong and mighty men shall become weak. ¹⁵Your warriors shall not stand and your swift men shall not escape. ¹⁶And the most courageous men shall flee naked, in that day, says the LORD.

Amos: chapter 3

¹Hear the Word of the LORD, that He has spoken against the children of Israel. Against the entire family that I brought out of the land of Egypt. ²Saying; Only you have I known and chosen out of all the people of the earth, therefore, I will punish you for all of your iniquities. ³How can two walk together, unless they are in agreement? ⁴The LORD would not be roaring like a lion, if there was no reason. ⁵Will a bird fall from the sky without cause? ⁶If an alarm has sounded in the city and the people tremble, is not the LORD behind it? ⁷The LORD God does nothing unless He first reveals it to His servants, the prophets. ⁸The LORD has spoken! The people shall fear, how can they not but prophecy?

⁹Call in the foreign countries to witness the scandals within Israel and the oppressed in her midsts. ¹⁰For these cities do not know right from wrong, for their hearts are set on violence and robbery. ¹¹Therefore, an adversary shall take away your strength and your palaces shall be plundered. ¹²I shall save the children of Israel from their captors, however, it shall be as a shepherd takes a lamb from the mouth of a lion. ¹³Hear this Israel, for I testify that this is true. ¹⁴That day when I punish Israel for her transgressions, I will also visit the altars of Bethel, (NOTE: the idol worship within Jerusalem). The horns of the altar shall be cut off and fall to the ground. ¹⁵Also I shall destroy their beautiful summer and winter homes, says the LORD.

Amos: chapter 4

¹Hear this word, you indulgent cows of Samaria, who reside on the mountains. You who take advantage of the poor and needy, as you seek further indulgences from your husbands. ²The day shall come when the LORD will take you away against your will and also from your future generations. ³You shall leave your own broken city and you shall be thrust into exile. ⁴Go to Bethel and sin! Multiply your transgressions, sacrifice to your idols every morning and bring your tithes to them every third day. ⁵Bring them offerings mingled with defilement and announce the freewill offerings for this is what the children of Israel love to do, says the LORD.

⁶I sent you hunger and want for bread, yet you have not returned to Me. ⁷I have withheld rain from you, months before your harvest. Sending rain selectively to one city and not the other. Resulting in a drought in certain cities. ⁸But at this you simply used water from neighboring cities and even though you were not satisfied you still did not return to Me. ⁹I struck your lands and vineyards with mildew and the locust ate up your crop, yet you have not returned to Me. ¹⁰I sent among you plagues after the manor of Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword and caused your camps to stink. Still you did not return to Me. ¹¹I destroyed some of their cities, as was Sodom and Gomorrah, saving you at the last moment and still you have not returned to Me. ¹²Therefore, I will do this to you oh Israel, prepare to meet your God! ¹³He who is Creator of all, He who gives man his thoughts and can make the morning into darkness. Who treads on the high places of the earth, The LORD God of Hosts is His name.

Amos: chapter 5

¹Hear My words of lament that I have against you, Oh Israel. ²The once beautiful, virgin city of Israel has fallen and will rise up no more. She has forsaken her own principles and now there is no one to raise her up. ³Armies shall be sent out but only one tenth of them shall return.

⁴Thus says the LORD to the house of Israel; Seek Me and live! ⁵Do not seek idols or enter into false temples. ⁶Seek the LORD and live, lest He break out like a fire on the twelve tribes of Israel and devour them. ⁷You who pervert justice and slay the righteousness. ⁸For the LORD made the stars and the consolations, He can turn the shadows of death into morning and the day as dark as night, the One who pours out the waters on the face of the earth. The LORD is His name. ⁹Who causes sudden destruction to the strong men and their fortress become defenseless. ¹⁰But how the people hate honest judges and they who are upright. ¹¹Therefore Israel, since you oppress the poor and cheat your neighbor. Even though you have built fine houses having vineyards, you shall not dwell in these homes or drink from your vineyards. ¹²For I know all of your many and great transgressions, affecting the just, taking bribes and oppressing the poor. ¹³Therefore whoever is wise among you let him remain silent, for this is an evil time. ¹⁴Seek to do good and not evil, so that the LORD God will be with you and that you may live. ¹⁵Hate evil and love good, establish justice and perhaps the LORD will be gracious on His people who remain.

¹⁶Therefore, says the LORD; There shall be wailing everywhere, people shall both mourn and wail. ¹⁷For I shall pass through you, says the LORD. ¹⁸Woe to those of you who look forward to the day of the LORD, do you not know that for you it will be a day of darkness rather than light. ¹⁹It will be as if a man fled from a lion only to be met by a bear, or if he was in a house and placed his hand on the wall and a serpent bit him!. ²⁰The day of the LORD is absolute darkness with no brightness in it. ²¹I the LORD hates your feast days and I take no delight in your holy gatherings. ²²Though you offer Me burnt, grain and peace offerings, I will not accept them. ²³Your songs of praise are noise to My ears, cease this noise! ²⁴For you do not heed justice or righteousness.

²⁵The forty years Israel was in the wilderness, did you really worshiped Me? ²⁶For you also carried with you meaningless statues of your king and idols of your star-gods around with you. ²⁷Therefore, I will send you into captivity, says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.

Amos: chapter 6

¹Woe, to you who are Israel and Judah that are complacent in your cities, trusting in your fortresses. ²Go check out the foreign countries, are you better than these kingdoms, or are your boundaries greater than theirs? ³Woe to you who refuses to think about the day of judgment, by doing so you actually cause it to come near. ⁴You who indulge yourself in luxury and idleness, eating choice meats. ⁵Singing idle songs while creating instruments of music. ⁶Who drink wine from costly vessels and anoint themselves with the best oils. Yet, they are not moved and grieve for the afflictions of others. ⁷Therefore they shall be the first to be taken captive and those who indulge themselves shall be removed. ⁸This has the LORD sworn to do, for He abhors the pride of Israel and He hates their palaces, therefore, I will deliver up this city and all that is in it.

⁹After this, even if ten men remain hiding in one house they all shall die. ¹⁰In those days, the one who buries the bodies will ask another, if there are more bodies in the house? and as the man answers. The newcomer will say to him, hold your tongue, for we dare not mention the name of the LORD. ¹¹For the LORD has vowed to smash both great and small homes into bits. ¹²For you have perverted justice and turned righteousness into bitterness, this should not have been done. ¹³You who rejoice over your past victories, saying to yourself, we have done this in our own strength. ¹⁴But I shall raise a nation against you, O Israel and they will greatly afflict you, says the LORD God.

Amos: chapter 7

¹Thus the LORD God showed me this vision; He had prepared a swarm of locust, at the beginning of the final crop, after the king had taken the first cuttings. ²And after the locust had finished eating the grass of the land. I prayed; LORD that Israel might stand, for he is small. ³So the LORD relented concerning this.

⁴Then the LORD showed me a great conflict by fire and it consumed the waters and devoured the land. ⁵Then I said; LORD cease, I pray! That Israel might stand for he is small. ⁶So the LORD relented concerning this.

⁷The LORD then showed me a vision where He stood on a straight wall, having the plumb-line in His hand. ⁸And He asked me; Amos what do you see? And I said; a plumb-line. Then the LORD said; I am setting a standard of righteousness for My people Israel, I will not disregard their iniquities and spare them anymore. ⁹Israel's altars of idolatry and sanctuaries shall be destroyed, their king shall be slain with the sword.

¹⁰Then Amaziah the priest sent message to Israel's king, telling him that; Amos has conspired against you in the house of Israel and the land is not able to bear all his words. ¹¹For he has said; that your king Jeroboam shall die by the sword and the people of Israel shall be led away from their own land into captivity. ¹²The priest then said to Amos; Go back to your own land, there you can eat and prophecy. ¹³But never again shall you prophecy here at Bethel. For this city is the king's sanctuary and his royal residence.

¹⁴Then Amos answered Amaziah the priest saying; I am not of the line of the family of prophets but rather a sheep breeder by trade. ¹⁵And as I was caring for my flock, the LORD Himself gave me this mandate to prophesy to the people of Israel. ¹⁶Therefore, hear the Word of the LORD, for you have told me not to prophesy against Israel. ¹⁷Therefore, thus says the LORD; your wife shall play the harlot in the city streets, your sons and daughters shall be slain. Your land shall be divided and you shall die in a defiled land and Israel shall surely be led away from their land into captivity.

Amos: chapter 8

¹Thus the LORD gave me yet another vision, of a basket of summer fruit. ²Then He said; Amos what do you see? And I said, a basket of summer fruit. And the LORD said to me; The end has come upon My people Israel, I won't turn a blind eye to their deeds anymore. ³In that day, the praise songs in their temples shall become wailing and there shall be dead bodies everywhere. ⁴Hear this, you who rob the needy and take advantage of the poor.

⁵For you say when will the sacred days be over? That we may return to our dally trading. Using unjust weights and measures to increase our wealth through deceit. ⁶Taking advantage of the needy and poor, even selling them damaged goods. ⁷The LORD has sworn by Israel's own pride, surely I will not forget any of your works. ⁸The land shall tremble for this and all who dwell in it will mourn. ⁹In that day, I shall make the sun go down at noon, yes, in broad daylight the earth shall be darkened. ¹⁰I will turn your feasts into times of mourning and all of your songs into songs of sorrow. Everyone shall be clothed in sackcloth and every head shaven and your mourning shall be as for an only son, it shall be a bitter day. ¹¹Those days are coming, when I will send a famine across the land, not a famine of want for food, but of hearing the Words of the LORD. ¹²The people shall then wander to and fro seeking the Word of God, but they shall not find it. ¹³In those days even the fair virgins and the strong young men shall faint from thirst. ¹⁴Those who swear by foreign gods shall fall and shall never rise again.

Amos: chapter 9

¹I then saw the LORD standing by the idolatries altar in Bethel, saying; strike the doorposts. That the thresholds may shake and crumble on top of them, I will slay them all with the sword and the ones who do escape shall not be delivered. ²Even if they attempt to dig down to hell or climb up into heaven, My hand shall find them. ³Wherever they go into their fortresses, I will find them, if they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea, I shall command a serpent to byte them. ⁴If they go into captivity before their enemies. I will command the sword against them, I will set My eyes on them for harm and not for good. ⁵The LORD, the Creator of all, who touches the earth and it melts and all who dwell there mourn. ⁶He makes His home in the sky and governs the happenings of the earth, the LORD is His name.

⁷My people of Israel have become as children who go astray. I brought you out of the land of Egypt, but I also brought other nations up as well. ⁸My eyes are on this sinful kingdom and I will destroy it from the face of the earth but I will not utterly destroy the house of Israel. ⁹I will sift My people, yet not the smallest grain shall fall to the ground. ¹⁰Every sinner among My people shall die. Who says to themselves, this calamity shall not overtake or harm us.

¹¹On that day I shall raise up the tabernacle of David, that has fallen down and its damages shall be repaired. ¹²that the gentiles who are called by My name shall also dwell in it. ¹³The days are coming, says the LORD; when multitudes shall come to the LORD and prosperity of the LORD shall drip down as sweet wine. ¹⁴I will then bring back the people out of their captivity. They shall rebuild their cities and inhabit them, planting vineyards and gardens for food and they shall eat and drink. ¹⁵I will plant the people in their land and no longer shall they be pulled up from the land I have given them, says the LORD your God.