Amos chapter 1

The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds of Dacoa, which he saw concerning Israel in

the days of Isaiah, king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of

Israel, two years before the earthquake. Judgment on Israel's neighbors.

And he said,

The Lord roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem,

the pastures of the shepherds mourn and the top of Carmel Weathers.

Thus says the Lord,

For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,

because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron, so I will send a fire upon the

house of Haziel, and it shall devour the strongholds of Benhad. I will break the gatebar of Damascus,

and cut off the inhabitants from the valley of Avon, and him who holds

the scepter from Beth Eden and the people of Syria shall go into exile to cure, says the Lord.

Thus says the Lord, for three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,

because they carried into exile a whole people to deliver them up from Edom. So I will send revoke the punishment, because they carried into exile a whole people to deliver

them up from Edom. So I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour her strongholds.

I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashted, and him who holds a scepter from Ashkelon.

I will turn my hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,

says the Lord God. Thus says the Lord, for three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not

revoke the punishment, because they delivered up a whole people from Edom, and did not remember

the covenant of brotherhood. So I will send a fire upon the wall of

Tyre, and it shall devour her strongholds. Thus, says the Lord, for three transgressions of Edom,

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