A reading from the book of Amos.

The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds 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, The Lord roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem. The pastures of the

shepherds mourn and the top of Carmel withers. 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 Hezaal, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben Hadad. 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 Kerr, 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 to 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 Ashdod, and him who holds the 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 to 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 and for four,

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