And shall water the valley of Shittim. Amos, the Herdman of Tekoa Of the house of the LORD, 5 ΤΟ And Edom shall be a desolate wilderness. For the violence against the children of Judah, But Judah shall dwell for ever, And Jerusalem from generation to generation. That I have not cleansed: For the LORD dwelleth in Zion. TH 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. 20 And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, And utter his voice from Jerusalem; And the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of 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 punish-: ment 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. 20 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 to 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. 25 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 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. Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judgments Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punish- on Judah ment thereof; because they sold the righteous for & Israel silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; that pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, 5 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 name: and they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god. ΤΟ Yet destroyed I 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. Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty 15 years through 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, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD. But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink ; 20 and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not. Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves. Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver 25 himself: neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse Israel deliver himself. And he that is courageous among the must be mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD. Punished ΤΟ 15 20 25 * Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against Will a lion roar in the forest, Will a young lion cry out of his den, Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, Shall one take up a snare from the earth, Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, And the LORD hath not done it? But he revealeth his secret Unto his servants the prophets. The lion hath roared, Who will not fear? The Lord God hath spoken, |