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and the pastures of the shepherds will mourn, + and the top of Carmel will wither." +001:003 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, + for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they + have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron; +001:004 but I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it will + devour the palaces of Ben Hadad. +001:005 I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant + from the valley of Aven, and him who holds the scepter + from the house of Eden; and the people of Syria shall go + into captivity to Kir," says Yahweh. +001:006 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Gaza, yes, for four, + I will not turn away its punishment; because they carried + away captive the whole community, to deliver them up to Edom; +001:007 but I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, and it will + devour its palaces. +001:008 I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him who holds + the scepter from Ashkelon; and I will turn my hand against Ekron; + and the remnant of the Philistines will perish," + says the Lord Yahweh. +001:009 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Tyre, yes, + for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they + delivered up the whole community to Edom, and didn't remember + the brotherly covenant; +001:010 but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it will + devour its palaces." +001:011 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, + I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his + brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger + raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever; +001:012 but I will send a fire on Teman, and it will devour + the palaces of Bozrah." +001:013 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of the children + of Ammon, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; + because they have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, + that they may enlarge their border. +001:014 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it will + devour its palaces, with shouting in the day of battle, + with a storm in the day of the whirlwind; +001:015 and their king will go into captivity, he and his + princes together," says Yahweh. +002:001 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, + I will not turn away its punishment; because he burned + the bones of the king of Edom into lime; +002:002 but I will send a fire on Moab, and it will devour the palaces + of Kerioth; and Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, + and with the sound of the trumpet; +002:003 and I will cut off the judge from their midst, and will kill + all its princes with him," says Yahweh. +002:004 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, + I will not turn away its punishment; because they have rejected + Yahweh's law, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies + have led them astray, after which their fathers walked; +002:005 But I will send a fire on Judah, and it will devour + the palaces of Jerusalem." +002:006 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, + I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold + the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; +002:007 They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, + and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father + use the same maiden, to profane my holy name; +002:008 and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes + taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink + the wine of those who have been fined. +002:009 Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was + like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; + yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. +002:010 Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty + years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. +002:011 I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your + young men for Nazirites. Isn't this true, you children + of Israel?" says Yahweh. +002:012 "But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded + the prophets, saying, 'Don't prophesy!' +002:013 Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes + that is full of grain. +002:014 Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won't strengthen + his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself; +002:015 neither shall he stand who handles the bow; and he who is + swift of foot won't escape; neither shall he who rides + the horse deliver himself; +002:016 and he who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked + on that day," says Yahweh. +003:001 Hear this word that Yahweh has spoken against you, children of Israel, + against the whole family which I brought up out of the land + of Egypt, saying: +003:002 "You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth. + Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins." +003:003 Do two walk together, unless they have agreed? +003:004 Will a lion roar in the thicket, when he has no prey? + Does a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing? +003:005 Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth, where no snare + is set for him? Does a snare spring up from the ground, + when there is nothing to catch? +003:006 Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people + being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh + hasn't done it? +003:007 Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals + his secret to his servants the prophets. +003:008 The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. + Who can but prophesy? +003:009 Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land + of Egypt, and say, "Assemble yourselves on the mountains + of Samaria, and see what unrest is in her, and what oppression + is among them." +003:010 "Indeed they don't know to do right," says Yahweh, "Who hoard + plunder and loot in their palaces." +003:011 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "An adversary will + overrun the land; and he will pull down your strongholds, + and your fortresses will be plundered." +003:012 Thus says Yahweh: "As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth + of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the children + of Israel be rescued who sit in Samaria on the corner of a couch, + and on the silken cushions of a bed." +003:013 "Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob," + says the Lord Yahweh, the God of Armies. +003:014 "For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel + on him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel; and the horns + of the altar will be cut off, and fall to the ground. +003:015 I will strike the winter house with the summer house; + and the houses of ivory will perish, and the great houses + will have an end," says Yahweh. +004:001 Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain + of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, + who tell their husbands, "Bring us drinks!" +004:002 The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold, "The days + shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, + and the last of you with fish hooks. +004:003 You will go out at the breaks in the wall, everyone straight + before her; and you will cast yourselves into Harmon," says Yahweh. +004:004 "Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your + sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days, +004:005 offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, + and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: + for this pleases you, you children of Israel," + says the Lord Yahweh. +004:006 "I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, + and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven't returned + to me," says Yahweh. +004:007 "I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet + three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, + and caused it not to rain on another city. One place was + rained on, and the piece where it didn't rain withered. +004:008 So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, + and were not satisfied: yet you haven't returned to me," + says Yahweh. +004:009 "I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens + and your vineyards; and your fig trees and your olive trees + have the swarming locust devoured: yet you haven't returned + to me," says Yahweh. +004:010 "I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt. I have slain your + young men with the sword, and have carried away your horses; + and I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, + yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh. +004:011 "I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom + and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out + of the fire; yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh. +004:012 "Therefore thus will I do to you, Israel; because I will do + this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel. +004:013 For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates + the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; + who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places + of the Earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name." +005:001 Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, + O house of Israel. +005:002 "The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more. + She is cast down on her land; there is no one to raise her up." +005:003 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "The city that went forth + a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth + one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel." +005:004 For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel: "Seek me, + and you will live; +005:005 but don't seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don't pass + to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, + and Bethel shall come to nothing. +005:006 Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire + in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one + to quench it in Bethel. +005:007 You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness + to the earth: +005:008 seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow + of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; + who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on + the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name, +005:009 who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction + comes on the fortress. +005:010 They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him + who speaks blamelessly. +005:011 Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes + from him of wheat: You have built houses of hewn stone, but you + will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, + but you shall not drink their wine. +005:012 For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins-- + you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn + aside the needy in the courts. +005:013 Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, + for it is an evil time. +005:014 Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so Yahweh, + the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say. +005:015 Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. + It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious + to the remnant of Joseph." +005:016 Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, + the Lord: "Wailing will be in all the broad ways; + and they will say in all the streets, 'Alas! Alas!' and they + will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful + in lamentation to wailing. +005:017 In all vineyards there will be wailing; for I will pass through + the midst of you," says Yahweh. +005:018 "Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long + for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light. +005:019 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; + Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, + and a snake bit him. +005:020 Won't the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? + Even very dark, and no brightness in it? +005:021 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can't stand + your solemn assemblies. +005:022 Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, + I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace + offerings of your fat animals. +005:023 Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen + to the music of your harps. +005:024 But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like + a mighty stream. +005:025 "Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness + forty years, house of Israel? +005:026 You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, + the star of your god, which you made for yourselves. +005:027 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus," + says Yahweh, whose name is the God of Armies. +006:001 Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure + on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief + of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come! +006:002 Go to Calneh, and see; and from there go to Hamath the great; + then go down to Gath of the Philistines. are they better than + these kingdoms? or is their border greater than your border? +006:003 Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat + of violence to come near; +006:004 Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, + and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of + the midst of the stall; +006:005 who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves + instruments of music, like David; +006:006 who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils; + but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. +006:007 Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive; + and the feasting and lounging will end. +006:008 "The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself," says Yahweh, the God + of Armies: "I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. + Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it. +006:009 It will happen, if there remain ten men in one house, + that they shall die. +006:010 "When a man's relative carries him, even he who burns him, + to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in + the innermost parts of the house, 'Is there yet any with you?' + And he says, 'No;' then he will say, 'Hush! Indeed we must + not mention the name of Yahweh.' +006:011 "For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be + smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits. +006:012 Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? + But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit + of righteousness into bitterness; +006:013 you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, 'Haven't we + taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?' +006:014 For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, house of Israel," + says Yahweh, the God of Armies; "and they will afflict you + from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah." +007:001 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and behold, he formed locusts + in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; + and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's harvest. +007:002 It happened that, when they made an end of eating the grass + of the land, then I said, "Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! + How could Jacob stand? For he is small." +007:003 Yahweh relented concerning this. "It shall not be," says Yahweh. +007:004 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and behold, the Lord Yahweh + called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, + and would have devoured the land. +007:005 Then I said, "Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? + For he is small." +007:006 Yahweh relented concerning this. "This also shall not be," + says the Lord Yahweh. +007:007 Thus he showed me and behold, the Lord stood beside a wall + made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. +007:008 Yahweh said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A plumb line." + Then the Lord said, "Behold, I will set a plumb line in the midst + of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more. +007:009 The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries + of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house + of Jeroboam with the sword." +007:010 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king + of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst + of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear + all his words. +007:011 For Amos says, 'Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel + shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'" +007:012 Amaziah also said to Amos, "You seer, go, flee away into the land + of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there: +007:013 but don't prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is + the king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house!" +007:014 Then Amos answered Amaziah, "I was no prophet, neither was + I a prophet's son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer + of sycamore figs; +007:015 and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said + to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.' +007:016 Now therefore listen to the word of Yahweh: 'You say, + Don't prophesy against Israel, and don't preach against + the house of Isaac.' +007:017 Therefore thus says Yahweh: 'Your wife shall be a prostitute + in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall + by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; + and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, + and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'" +008:001 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit. +008:002 He said, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A basket of + summer fruit." Then Yahweh said to me, "The end has come + on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more. +008:003 The songs of the temple will be wailings in that day," + says the Lord Yahweh. "The dead bodies will be many. + In every place they will throw them out with silence. +008:004 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause + the poor of the land to fail, +008:005 Saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? + And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, + and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit; +008:006 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair + of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'" +008:007 Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, "Surely I will never + forget any of their works. +008:008 Won't the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells + in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it + will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt. +008:009 It will happen in that day," says the Lord Yahweh, "that I + will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken + the earth in the clear day. +008:010 I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs + into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth + on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. + I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and the end + of it like a bitter day. +008:011 Behold, the days come," says the Lord Yahweh, "that I will send + a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst + for water, but of hearing the words of Yahweh. +008:012 They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; + they will run back and forth to seek the word of Yahweh, + and will not find it. +008:013 In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will + faint for thirst. +008:014 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, 'As your god, + Dan, lives;' and, 'As the way of Beersheba lives;' they will fall, + and never rise up again." +009:001 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, + "Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; + and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; + and I will kill the last of them with the sword: + there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not + one of them escape. +009:002 Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; + and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down. +009:003 Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search + and take them out there; and though they be hid from my sight + in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, + and it will bite them. +009:004 Though they go into captivity before their enemies, + there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. + I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good. +009:005 For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land + and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it + will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, + like the River of Egypt. +009:006 It is he who builds his chambers in the heavens, and has + founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters + of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; + Yahweh is his name. +009:007 Are you not like the children of the Ethiopians to me, + children of Israel?" says Yahweh. "Haven't I brought up Israel + out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, + and the Syrians from Kir? +009:008 Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, + and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth; + except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," + says Yahweh. +009:009 "For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of + Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, + yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth. +009:010 All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, + 'Evil won't overtake nor meet us.' +009:011 In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, + and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, + and I will build it as in the days of old; +009:012 that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations + who are called by my name," says Yahweh who does this. +009:013 "Behold, the days come," says Yahweh, "that the plowman + shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him + who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, + and flow from the hills. +009:014 I will bring my people Israel back from captivity, + and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; + and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. + They shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. +009:015 I will plant them on their land, and they will no more be + plucked up out of their land which I have given them," + says Yahweh your God. + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE WORLD ENGLISH BIBLE (WEB): AMOS *** + +This file should be named 8257.txt or 8257.zip + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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