GetPassageurn:cts:pbc:bible.parallel.eng.darby:30urn:cts:pbc:bible.parallel.eng.darby:30The 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 , king of Israel , two years before the earthquake . And he said , Jehovah roareth from Zion , and uttereth his voice from Jerusalem ; and the pastures of the shepherds mourn , and the top of Carmel withereth . Thus saith Jehovah : For three transgressions of Damascus , and for four , I will not revoke [ my sentence ] , because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron . And I will send a fire into the house of Hazael , and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-Hadad . And I will break the bar of Damascus , and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven , and him that holdeth the sceptre from Beth-Eden ; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir , saith Jehovah . Thus saith Jehovah : For three transgressions of Gazah , and for four , I will not revoke its sentence ; because they carried away captive the whole captivity , to deliver [ them ] up to Edom . And I will send a fire on the wall of Gazah , and it shall devour the palaces thereof . And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod , and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon , and I will turn my hand against Ekron ; and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish , saith the Lord Jehovah . Thus saith Jehovah : For three transgressions of Tyre , and for four , I will not revoke its sentence ; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom , and remembered not the brotherly covenant . And I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre , and it shall devour the palaces thereof . Thus saith Jehovah : For three transgressions of Edom , and for four , I will not revoke its sentence ; because he pursued his brother with the sword , and cast off all pity ; and his anger did tear continually , and he kept his wrath for ever . And I will send a fire upon Teman , and it shall devour the palaces of Bozrah . Thus saith Jehovah : For three transgressions of the children of Ammon , and for four , I will not revoke its sentence ; because they ripped up the women with child of Gilead , that they might enlarge their border . And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah , and it shall devour the palaces thereof , with shouting in the day of battle , with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind . And their king shall go into captivity , he and his princes together , saith Jehovah . Thus saith Jehovah : For three transgressions of Moab , and for four , I will not revoke its sentence ; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime . And I will send a fire upon Moab , and it shall devour the palaces of Kerijoth ; and Moab shall die with tumult , with shouting , [ and ] with the sound of the trumpet . And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof , and will slay all the princes thereof with him , saith Jehovah . Thus saith Jehovah : For three transgressions of Judah , and for four , I will not revoke its sentence ; because they have despised the law of Jehovah , and have not kept his statutes ; and their lies have caused them to err , after which their fathers walked . And I will send a fire upon Judah , and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem . Thus saith Jehovah : For three transgressions of Israel , and for four , I will not revoke its sentence ; because they have sold the righteous for silver , and the needy for a pair of shoes ; panting after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor , and turning aside the way of the meek ; and a man and his father will go in unto the [ same ] maid , to profane my holy name . And they lay [ themselves ] down by every altar upon clothes taken in pledge , and they drink [ in ] the house of their God the wine of the condemned . But I destroyed the Amorite before them , whose height was as the height of the cedars , and he was strong as the oaks ; but I destroyed his fruit from above , and his roots from beneath . And I brought you up from the land of Egypt , and led you forty years in the wilderness , to possess the land of the Amorite . And I raised up of your sons for prophets , and of your young men for Nazarites . Is it not even thus , ye children of Israel ? saith Jehovah . And ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink ; and commanded the prophets , saying , Prophesy not . Behold , I will press upon you , as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves . And flight shall perish from the swift , and the strong shall not strengthen his force , neither shall the mighty deliver his soul . Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow ; and the swift of foot shall not escape , and he that rideth the horse shall not deliver his soul ; and he that is stout-hearted among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day , saith Jehovah . Hear this word that Jehovah hath spoken against you , children of Israel , against the whole family that I brought up from the land of Egypt , saying , You only have I known of all the families of the earth ; therefore will I visit upon you all your iniquities . Shall two walk together except they be agreed ? Will a lion roar in the forest when he hath no prey ? Will a young lion cry out of his den if he have taken nothing ? Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth when no gin [ is laid ] for him ? Will the snare spring up from the earth when nothing at all hath been taken ? Shall a trumpet be blown in the city , and the people not be afraid ? Shall there be evil in a city , and Jehovah not have done [ it ] ? But the Lord Jehovah will do nothing , but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets . The lion hath roared , -- who will not fear ? The Lord Jehovah hath spoken , -- who can but prophesy ? Publish in the palaces at Ashdod , and in the palaces in the land of Egypt , and say , Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria , and behold the great uproar in the midst thereof , and the oppressions that are within her : and they know not to do right , saith Jehovah , who store up violence and plunder in their palaces . Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah : An adversary ! -- even round about the land ! And he shall bring down thy strength from thee , and thy palaces shall be pillaged . Thus saith Jehovah : Like as the shepherd rescueth out of the jaw of the lion two legs , or a piece of an ear ; so shall the children of Israel be rescued that sit in Samaria in the corner of a couch , and upon the damask of a bed . Hear ye , and testify in the house of Jacob , saith the Lord Jehovah , the God of hosts , that in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him , I will also punish the altars of Bethel ; and the horns of the altar shall be cut off , and fall to the ground . And I will smite the winter-house with the summer-house ; and the houses of ivory shall perish , and many houses shall have an end , saith Jehovah . Hear this word , ye kine of Bashan , that are in the mountain of Samaria , that oppress the poor , that crush the needy , that say to their lords , Bring , and let us drink : the Lord Jehovah hath sworn by his holiness , that behold , days shall come upon you , when he will take you away with hooks , and your posterity with fish-hooks ; and ye shall go out by the breaches , every one straight before her , and ye shall be cast out to Harmon , saith Jehovah . Come to Bethel , and transgress ; at Gilgal multiply transgression ; and bring your sacrifices in the morning , your tithes every three days , and burn a thank-offering with leaven , and proclaim , publish , voluntary offerings : for this pleaseth you , children of Israel , saith the Lord Jehovah . And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities , and want of bread in all your places ; yet ye have not returned unto me , saith Jehovah . And 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 [ of land ] was rained upon , and the piece whereupon it rained not withered . And two , three , cities wandered unto one city , to drink water , and were not satisfied : yet have ye not returned unto me , saith Jehovah . I have smitten you with blasting and mildew ; the palmer-worm hath devoured the multitude of your gardens , and your vineyards , and your fig-trees and your olive-trees : yet have ye not returned unto me , saith Jehovah . I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt : your young men have I slain with the sword , taking away captive your horses ; and I made the stench of your camps to come up , even into your nostrils : yet have ye not returned unto me , saith Jehovah . I have overthrown among you , like God's overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah , and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning ; yet have ye not returned unto me , saith Jehovah . Therefore thus will I do unto thee , O Israel : because I will do this unto thee , prepare to meet thy God , O Israel . For behold , he who formeth the mountains , and createth the wind , and declareth unto man what is his thought , who maketh the morning darkness , and treadeth upon the high places of the earth , -- Jehovah , the God of hosts , is his name . Hear this word , a lamentation , which I take up against you , O house of Israel . The virgin of Israel is fallen ; she shall no more arise : she is cast down upon her land ; there is none to raise her up . For thus saith the Lord Jehovah : The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left , and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left , for the house of Israel . For thus saith Jehovah unto the house of Israel : Seek ye me , and ye shall live . And seek not Bethel , neither go to Gilgal , and pass not to Beer-sheba ; for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity , and Bethel shall come to nought . Seek Jehovah , and ye shall live ; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph , and devour [ it ] , and there be none to quench [ it ] in Bethel . Ye who turn judgment to wormwood , and cast down righteousness to the earth , [ seek him ] that made the Pleiades and Orion , and turneth the shadow of death into the morning , and maketh the day dark with night ; that calleth for the waters of the sea , and poureth them out upon the face of the earth : Jehovah is his name . He causeth destruction to break forth suddenly upon the strong , and bringeth destruction upon the fortress . They hate him that reproveth in the gate , and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly . Forasmuch , therefore , as ye trample upon the poor , and take from him presents of wheat : ye have built houses of hewn stone , but ye shall not dwell in them ; ye have planted pleasant vineyards , and ye shall not drink the wine of them . For I know how manifold are your transgressions and your sins mighty : they afflict the just , they take a bribe , and they turn aside [ the right of ] the needy in the gate . Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in this time ; for it is an evil time . Seek good , and not evil , that ye may live ; and so Jehovah , the God of hosts , shall be with you , as ye say . Hate evil , and love good , and establish judgment in the gate : it may be that Jehovah , the God of hosts , will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph . Therefore thus saith Jehovah , the God of hosts , the Lord : Wailing shall be in all broadways ; and they shall say in all the streets , Alas ! alas ! And they shall call the husbandman to mourning , and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing . And in all vineyards shall be wailing ; for I will pass through the midst of thee , saith Jehovah . Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah ! To what end is the day of Jehovah for you ? It shall be darkness and not light : as if a man fled 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 . Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness , and not light ? even very dark , and no brightness in it ? I hate , I despise your feasts , and I will not smell [ a sweet odour ] in your solemn assemblies . For if ye offer up unto me burnt-offerings and your oblations , I will not accept [ them ] ; neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your fatted beasts . Take away from me the noise of thy songs , and I will not hear the melody of thy lutes ; but let judgment roll down as waters , and righteousness as an ever-flowing stream . Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and oblations in the wilderness forty years , O house of Israel ? Yea , ye took up the tabernacle of your Moloch , and Chiun your images , the star of your god , which ye had made to yourselves ; and I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus , saith Jehovah , whose name is the God of hosts . Woe to them that are at ease in Zion and that are secure in the mountain of Samaria , the renowned of the first of the nations , to whom the house of Israel come . Pass unto Calneh , and see ; and from thence go to Hamath the great ; and go down to Gath of the Philistines : are they better than these kingdoms ? or their border greater than your border ? Ye that put far away the evil day , and cause the seat of violence to come near ; that lie upon beds of ivory , and stretch themselves upon their couches , and eat the lambs out of the flock , and the calves from the midst of the stall ; that chant to the sound of the lute , [ and ] invent them instruments of music , like David ; that drink wine in bowls , and anoint themselves with the chief ointments ; but are not grieved for the breach of Joseph . Therefore shall they now go captive , with the first that go captive , and the revelry of them that stretched themselves shall pass away . The Lord Jehovah hath sworn by himself , saith Jehovah , the God of hosts , I abhor the pride of Jacob , and hate his palaces ; and I will deliver up the city with all that is therein . And it shall come to pass , if there remain ten men in one house , that they shall die . And a man's uncle , and he that should burn him , shall take him up to bring out the bones from the house , and shall say unto him that is in the inner parts of the house , Is there yet [ any ] with thee ? and he shall say , None . And he will say , Silence ! for we may not make mention of Jehovah's name . For behold , Jehovah commandeth , and he will smite the great house with breaches , and the little house with clefts . Shall horses run upon the rock ? will [ men ] plough [ thereon ] with oxen ? For ye have turned judgment into gall , and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood , -- ye that rejoice in a thing of nought , that say , Have we not taken to us power by our own strength ? For behold , O house of Israel , saith Jehovah the God of hosts , I will raise up against you a nation ; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hamath unto the torrent of the Arabah . Thus did the Lord Jehovah shew unto 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 mowings . And it came to pass , when they had wholly eaten the grass of the land , that I said , O Lord Jehovah , forgive , I beseech thee ! How shall Jacob arise ? for he is small . Jehovah repented for this : It shall not be , said Jehovah . Thus did the Lord Jehovah shew unto me ; and behold , the Lord Jehovah called to contend by fire ; and it devoured the great deep , and ate up the inheritance . Then said I , O Lord Jehovah , cease , I beseech thee ! How shall Jacob arise ? for he is small . Jehovah repented for this : This also shall not be , said the Lord Jehovah . Thus did he shew unto me ; and behold , the Lord stood upon a wall [ made ] by a plumb-line , with a plumb-line in his hand . And Jehovah said unto me , Amos , what seest thou ? And I said , A plumb-line . And 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 . And the high places of Isaac shall be desolated , and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste ; and I will arise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword . Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel , saying , Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel : the land is not able to bear all his words . For thus Amos saith : Jeroboam shall die by the sword , and Israel shall certainly go into captivity out of his land . And Amaziah said unto Amos , [ Thou ] seer , go , flee away into the land of Judah , and eat bread there , and prophesy there . But prophesy not again any more at Bethel ; for it is the king's sanctuary , and it is the house of the kingdom . And Amos answered and said to Amaziah , I was no prophet , neither was I a prophet's son ; but I was a herdman , and a gatherer of sycamore fruit . And Jehovah took me as I followed the flock , and Jehovah said unto me , Go , prophesy unto my people Israel . And now hear thou the word of Jehovah : Thou sayest , Prophesy not against Israel , and utter not [ words ] against the house of Isaac . Therefore thus saith Jehovah : Thy wife shall be a harlot in the city , and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword , and thy land shall be divided with the line ; and thou shalt die in a land that is unclean ; and Israel shall certainly go into captivity , out of his land . Thus did Jehovah shew unto me ; and behold , a basket of summer-fruit . And he said , Amos , what seest thou ? And I said , A basket of summer-fruit . And Jehovah said unto me , The end is come upon my people Israel : I will not again pass by them any more . And the songs of the palace shall be howlings in that day , saith the Lord Jehovah . The dead bodies shall be many ; in every place they shall be cast forth . Silence ! Hear this , ye that pant after the needy , even to cause to fail the poor of the land , saying , When will the new moon be gone , that we may sell corn ? and the sabbath , that we may set forth wheat ? making the ephah small and the shekel great , and falsifying the balances for deceit : that we may buy the poor for silver , and the needy for a pair of shoes ; and that we may sell the refuse of the wheat . Jehovah hath sworn by the glory of Jacob , Certainly I will never forget any of their works . Shall not the land tremble for this , and every one mourn that dwelleth therein ? And it shall wholly rise up like the Nile ; and it shall surge and sink down , as the river of Egypt . And it shall come to pass in that day , saith the Lord Jehovah , that I will cause the sun to go down at noon , and I will darken the land in the clear day . And I will turn your feasts into mourning , and all your songs into lamentation ; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins , and baldness upon every head ; and I will make it as the mourning for an only [ son ] , and the end thereof as a bitter day . Behold , days come , saith the Lord Jehovah , when I will send a famine in the land ; not a famine of bread , nor a thirst for water , but of hearing the words of Jehovah . And they shall wander from sea to sea , and from the north to the east ; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah , and shall not find it . In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst ; they that swear by the sin of Samaria , and say , [ As ] thy god , O Dan , liveth ! and , [ As ] the way of Beer-sheba liveth ! even they shall fall , and never rise up again . I saw the Lord standing upon the altar ; and he said , Smite the chapiter that the thresholds may shake ; and break all of them in pieces , in the head ; and I will slay the last of them with the sword : he that fleeth of them shall not get away by flight , and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered . Though they dig into Sheol , thence shall my hand take them ; and though they climb up to the heavens , thence will I bring them down ; and though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel , I will search and take them out thence ; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea , there will I command the serpent , and it shall bite them ; and though they go into captivity before their enemies , there will I command the sword , and it shall slay them : and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil , and not for good . And the Lord Jehovah of hosts is he that toucheth the land , and it melteth , and all that dwell therein shall mourn ; and it shall wholly rise up like the Nile , and sink down as the river of Egypt . It is he that buildeth his upper chambers in the heavens , and hath founded his vault upon the earth ; he that calleth for the waters of the sea , and poureth them out upon the face of the earth : Jehovah is his name . Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me , O children of Israel ? saith Jehovah . Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt ? and the Philistines from Caphtor , and the Syrians from Kir ? Behold , the eyes of the Lord Jehovah are upon the sinful kingdom , and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth : only that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob , saith Jehovah . For behold , I command , and I will shake the house of Israel to and fro among all the nations , like as one shaketh [ corn ] in a sieve ; yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth . All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword , who say , Evil shall not overtake nor befall us . In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David which is fallen , and close up the breaches thereof ; and I will raise up its ruins , and I will build it as in the days of old : that they may possess the remnant of Edom , and all the nations upon whom my name is called , saith Jehovah who doeth this . Behold , the days come , saith Jehovah , when the ploughman shall overtake the reaper , and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed ; and the mountains shall drop new wine , and all the hills shall melt . And I will turn again the captivity of my people Israel , and they shall build the waste cities , and inhabit them ; and they shall plant vineyards , and drink the wine thereof ; and they shall make gardens , and eat the fruit of them . And I will plant them upon their land , and they shall no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them , saith Jehovah thy God .