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New Testament
Amos
Amos of Tekoa was a layman and a part-time prophet. By profession he was a farmer and rancher. Although he lived in Judah, east of Bethlehem, the Lord sent him to Bethel, one of the centers of idolatry in the Northern Kingdom of Israel. He was a contemporary of Hosea, and like Hosea he delivered the final warnings to the Northern Kingdom before its destruction by the Assyrians in 722 BC. He prophesied during the calm before the Assyrian storm, at a time when the people of Israel were complacent.
11The words of Amos, who was among the sheep breeders[] from Tekoa. He saw a vision concerning Israel during the days of Uzziah king of Judah and during the days of Jeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
2He said:
The Lord roars from Zion.
From Jerusalem he sends out his voice.
and the top of Mount Carmel withers.
Judgment Against Aram
3This is what the Lord says:
because of four, I will not hold back judgment,
4So I will send fire against the house of Hazael,
and it will consume the fortresses of Ben Hadad.
5I will break the bars of the gates of Damascus, and I will cut off the one seated in the Valley of Aven,
The Lord has spoken.
Judgment Against Philistia
6This is what the Lord says:
Because of three sins of Gaza,
because of four, I will not hold back judgment,
because they sold an entire population into exile,
handing them over to Edom.
7So I will send fire against the city wall of Gaza,
and it will consume her citadels.
8I will cut off the one seated in Ashdod,
and the one who holds a scepter in Ashkelon.
I will also turn my hand against Ekron,
and what is left of the Philistines will perish.
The Lord God has spoken.
Judgment Against Canaan
9This is what the Lord says:
Because of three sins of Tyre,
because of four, I will not hold back judgment,
because they delivered over an entire population and exiled them to Edom,
and they did not remember a treaty of brotherhood.
10So I will send fire against the city wall of Tyre,
and it will consume her citadels.
Judgment Against Edom
11This is what the Lord says:
Because of three sins of Edom,
because of four, I will not hold back judgment,
His anger kept tearing Israel apart,
and his fury raged without stopping.
12So I will send fire against Teman,
and it will consume the citadels of Bozrah.
Judgment Against Ammon
13This is what the Lord says:
Because of three sins of the Ammonites,
because of four, I will not hold back judgment,
because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead
in order to enlarge their own territory.
14So I will ignite a fire against the city wall of Rabbah,
and it will consume her citadels
with a battle cry on the day of war,
with a strong wind on the day of the storm.
15Then their king will go into exile,
he and his officials together.
The Lord has spoken.
Footnotes
- 1:1 Or ranchers
- 1:2 Or mourn
- 1:3 Or crimes
- 1:3 A threshing board or threshing sledge is similar to a toboggan, but it has iron teeth protruding from the bottom. It is dragged over piles of grain to cut up the straw and release the kernels of grain.
- 1:5 Valley of Aven and Beth Eden mean Valley of Wickedness and House of Pleasure. They may be figurative names for the region around Damascus.
- 1:5 The location of Kir is unknown. It probably lies far to the north or east.
- 1:11 Edom is referred to by the singular he because it is also a name of Jacob's brother Esau.
- 1:11 Or he destroyed pregnant women