The Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, Nations to and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye be judged render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me,

swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence 5 upon your own head; because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: the children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them 10 far from their border. Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head: and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to 15 a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.

Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles;
Prepare war, wake up the mighty men,
Let all the men of war draw near;
Let them come up:

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Beat your plowshares into swords,

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And your pruninghooks into spears:
Let the weak say, I am strong.

Assemble yourselves,

And come, all ye heathen,

And gather yourselves together round about:
Thither cause thy mighty ones

To come down, O LORD.

Let the heathen be wakened, and come up

To the valley of Jehoshaphat:
For there will I sit to judge

All the heathen round about.

Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe :
Come, get you down;

For the press is full, the fats overflow;

For their wickedness is great.

Multitudes, multitudes

In the valley of decision:

For the day of the LORD is near
In the valley of decision.

The sun and the moon shall be darkened,
And the stars shall withdraw their shining.
The LORD also shall roar out of Zion,
And utter his voice from Jerusalem;
And the heavens and the earth shall shake:
But the LORD will be the hope of his people,
And the strength of the children of Israel.
So shall ye know

That I am the LORD your God

Dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain:

Then shall Jerusalem be holy,

And there shall no strangers pass through her any more.

And it shall come to pass in that day,

That the mountains shall drop down new wine,

And the hills shall flow with milk,

And all the rivers of Judah

Amos, the
Herdman

Of the house of the LORD,

And shall water the valley of Shittim.

of Tekoa Egypt shall be a desolation,

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And Edom shall be a desolate wilderness.

For the violence against the children of Judah,
Because they have shed innocent blood
In their land.

But Judah shall dwell for ever,

And Jerusalem from generation to generation.
For I will cleanse their blood

That I have not cleansed:

For the LORD dwelleth in Zion.

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Amos

HE words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning 15 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.

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And he said,

The LORD will roar from Zion,

And utter his voice from Jerusalem;

And the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn,
And the top of Carmel shall wither.

Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of
Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the

punishment thereof; because they have threshed God's Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: but I will Judgments send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall on the devour the palaces of Ben-hadad. I will break also Nations the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from 5 the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.

Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom: but I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof: and I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the 15 sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD.

Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant: but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.

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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions 25 of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for

God's ever but I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall Judgments devour the palaces of Bozrah.

on the Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions Nations of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not 5 turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border: but 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 10 tempest in the day of the whirlwind: and their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the Lord.

* Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of • Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punish15 ment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime: but I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth : and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet: and I will cut off 20 the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.

Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the 25 law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked: but I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of

Jerusalem.