Online Bible 1995 March/ROM-1025.iso/olb/masters/texts/darby.lzh/AM.LZH/AM

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1:1 The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen 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.
1:2 And he said, Jehovah roareth from Zion, and uttereth his
 voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds mourn,
 and the top of Carmel withereth.
1:3 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus,
 and for four, I will not revoke [my sentence], because they
 have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.
1:4 And I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it
 shall devour the palaces of Ben-Hadad.
1:5 And I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the
 inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and him that holdeth the
 sceptre from Beth-Eden; and the people of Syria shall go into
 captivity unto Kir, saith Jehovah.
1:6 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Gazah, and
 for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they carried
 away captive the whole captivity, to deliver [them] up to Edom.
1:7 And I will send a fire on the wall of Gazah, and it shall
 devour the palaces thereof.
1:8 And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that
 holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn my hand
 against Ekron; and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,
 saith the Lord Jehovah.
1:9 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Tyre, and
 for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they
 delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not
 the brotherly covenant.
1:10 And I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it shall
 devour the palaces thereof.
1:11 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Edom, and
 for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because he pursued
 his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity; and his
 anger did tear continually, and he kept his wrath for ever.
1:12 And I will send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the
 palaces of Bozrah.
1:13 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of the
 children of Ammon, and for four, I will not revoke its
 sentence; because they ripped up the women with child of
 Gilead, that they might enlarge their border.
1:14 And 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 tempest in the day of the whirlwind.
1:15 And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes
 together, saith Jehovah.
2:1 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, and
 for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because he burned the
 bones of the king of Edom into lime.
2:2 And I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the
 palaces of Kerijoth; and Moab shall die with tumult, with
 shouting, [and] with the sound of the trumpet.
2:3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and
 will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith Jehovah.
2:4 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, and
 for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they have
 despised the law of Jehovah, and have not kept his statutes;
 and their lies have caused them to err, after which their
 fathers walked.
2:5 And I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the
 palaces of Jerusalem.
2:6 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, and
 for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they have
 sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of
 shoes;
2:7 panting after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor,
 and turning aside the way of the meek; and a man and his father
 will go in unto the [same] maid, to profane my holy name.
2:8 And they lay [themselves] down by every altar upon clothes
 taken in pledge, and they drink [in] the house of their God the
 wine of the condemned.
2:9 But I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was as
 the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; but I
 destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
2:10 And I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you
 forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the
 Amorite.
2:11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your
 young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, ye children of
 Israel? saith Jehovah.
2:12 And ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the
 prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
2:13 Behold, I will press upon you, as a cart presseth that is
 full of sheaves.
2:14 And flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong
 shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty
 deliver his soul.
2:15 Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and the swift
 of foot shall not escape, and he that rideth the horse shall
 not deliver his soul;
2:16 and he that is stout-hearted among the mighty shall flee
 away naked in that day, saith Jehovah.
3:1 Hear this word that Jehovah hath spoken against you,
 children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up
 from the land of Egypt, saying,
3:2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth;
 therefore will I visit upon you all your iniquities.
3:3 Shall two walk together except they be agreed?
3:4 Will a lion roar in the forest when he hath no prey? Will a
 young lion cry out of his den if he have taken nothing?
3:5 Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth when no gin [is
 laid] for him? Will the snare spring up from the earth when
 nothing at all hath been taken?
3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be
 afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, and Jehovah not have
 done [it]?
3:7 But the Lord Jehovah will do nothing, but he revealeth his
 secret unto his servants the prophets.
3:8 The lion hath roared, -- who will not fear? The Lord Jehovah
 hath spoken, -- who can but prophesy?
3:9 Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the
 land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains
 of Samaria, and behold the great uproar in the midst thereof,
 and the oppressions that are within her:
3:10 and they know not to do right, saith Jehovah, who store up
 violence and plunder in their palaces.
3:11 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An adversary! --
 even round about the land! And he shall bring down thy strength
 from thee, and thy palaces shall be pillaged.
3:12 Thus saith Jehovah: Like as the shepherd rescueth out of
 the jaw of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall
 the children of Israel be rescued that sit in Samaria in the
 corner of a couch, and upon the damask of a bed.
3:13 Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord
 Jehovah, the God of hosts,
3:14 that in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of
 Israel upon him, I will also punish the altars of Bethel; and
 the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the
 ground.
3:15 And I will smite the winter-house with the summer-house;
 and the houses of ivory shall perish, and many houses shall
 have an end, saith Jehovah.
4:1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain
 of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that
 say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink:
4:2 the Lord Jehovah hath sworn by his holiness, that behold,
 days shall come upon you, when he will take you away with
 hooks, and your posterity with fish-hooks;
4:3 and ye shall go out by the breaches, every one straight
 before her, and ye shall be cast out to Harmon, saith Jehovah.
4:4 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply
 transgression; and bring your sacrifices in the morning, your
 tithes every three days,
4:5 and burn a thank-offering with leaven, and proclaim,
 publish, voluntary offerings: for this pleaseth you, children
 of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah.
4:6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your
 cities, and want of bread in all your places; yet ye have not
 returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
4:7 And I also have withholden the rain from you, when there
 were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain
 upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one
 piece [of land] was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it
 rained not withered.
4:8 And two, three, cities wandered unto one city, to drink
 water, and were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto
 me, saith Jehovah.
4:9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew; the palmer-worm
 hath devoured the multitude of your gardens, and your
 vineyards, and your fig-trees and your olive-trees: yet have ye
 not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
4:10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of
 Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, taking away
 captive your horses; and I made the stench of your camps to
 come up, even into your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto
 me, saith Jehovah.
4:11 I have overthrown among you, like God's overthrow of Sodom
 and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the
 burning; yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
4:12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: because I
 will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
4:13 For behold, he who formeth the mountains, and createth the
 wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, who maketh
 the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the
 earth, -- Jehovah, the God of hosts, is his name.
5:1 Hear this word, a lamentation, which I take up against you,
 O house of Israel.
5:2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more arise: she
 is cast down upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
5:3 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The city that went forth a
 thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a
 hundred shall have ten left, for the house of Israel.
5:4 For thus saith Jehovah unto the house of Israel: Seek ye me,
 and ye shall live.
5:5 And seek not Bethel, neither go to Gilgal, and pass not to
 Beer-sheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and
 Bethel shall come to nought.
5:6 Seek Jehovah, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire
 in the house of Joseph, and devour [it], and there be none to
 quench [it] in Bethel.
5:7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast down
 righteousness to the earth,
5:8 [seek him] that made the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the
 shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with
 night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them
 out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah is his name.
5:9 He causeth destruction to break forth suddenly upon the
 strong, and bringeth destruction upon the fortress.
5:10 They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor
 him that speaketh uprightly.
5:11 Forasmuch, therefore, as ye trample upon the poor, and take
 from him presents of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone,
 but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant
 vineyards, and ye shall not drink the wine of them.
5:12 For I know how manifold are your transgressions and your
 sins mighty: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they
 turn aside [the right of] the needy in the gate.
5:13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in this time; for
 it is an evil time.
5:14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so Jehovah,
 the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye say.
5:15 Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the
 gate: it may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be
 gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
5:16 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the Lord:
 Wailing shall be in all broadways; and they shall say in all
 the streets, Alas! alas! And they shall call the husbandman to
 mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
5:17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing; for I will pass
 through the midst of thee, saith Jehovah.
5:18 Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah! To what end is
 the day of Jehovah for you? It shall be darkness and not light:
5:19 as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or went
 into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent
 bit him.
5:20 Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light?
 even very dark, and no brightness in it?
5:21 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will not smell [a
 sweet odour] in your solemn assemblies.
5:22 For if ye offer up unto me burnt-offerings and your
 oblations, I will not accept [them]; neither will I regard the
 peace-offerings of your fatted beasts.
5:23 Take away from me the noise of thy songs, and I will not
 hear the melody of thy lutes;
5:24 but let judgment roll down as waters, and righteousness as
 an ever-flowing stream.
5:25 Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and oblations in the
 wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
5:26 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of your Moloch, and Chiun
 your images, the star of your god, which ye had made to
 yourselves;
5:27 and I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,
 saith Jehovah, whose name is the God of hosts.
6:1 Woe to them that are at ease in Zion and that are secure in
 the mountain of Samaria, the renowned of the first of the
 nations, to whom the house of Israel come.
6:2 Pass unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go to Hamath the
 great; and go down to Gath of the Philistines: are they better
 than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?
6:3 Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of
 violence to come near;
6:4 that lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon
 their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the
 calves from the midst of the stall;
6:5 that chant to the sound of the lute, [and] invent them
 instruments of music, like David;
6:6 that drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the
 chief ointments; but are not grieved for the breach of Joseph.
6:7 Therefore shall they now go captive, with the first that go
 captive, and the revelry of them that stretched themselves
 shall pass away.
6:8 The Lord Jehovah hath sworn by himself, saith Jehovah, the
 God of hosts, I abhor the pride of Jacob, and hate his palaces;
 and I will deliver up the city with all that is therein.
6:9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one
 house, that they shall die.
6:10 And a man's uncle, and he that should burn him, shall take
 him up to bring out the bones from the house, and shall say
 unto him that is in the inner parts of the house, Is there yet
 [any] with thee? and he shall say, None. And he will say,
 Silence! for we may not make mention of Jehovah's name.
6:11 For behold, Jehovah commandeth, and he will smite the great
 house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
6:12 Shall horses run upon the rock? will [men] plough [thereon]
 with oxen? For ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit
 of righteousness into wormwood,
6:13 -- ye that rejoice in a thing of nought, that say, Have we
 not taken to us power by our own strength?
6:14 For behold, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah the God of
 hosts, I will raise up against you a nation; and they shall
 afflict you from the entering in of Hamath unto the torrent of
 the Arabah.
7:1 Thus did the Lord Jehovah shew unto me; and behold, he
 formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the
 latter growth, and behold, it was the latter growth after the
 king's mowings.
7:2 And it came to pass, when they had wholly eaten the grass of
 the land, that I said, O Lord Jehovah, forgive, I beseech thee!
 How shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
7:3 Jehovah repented for this: It shall not be, said Jehovah.
7:4 Thus did the Lord Jehovah shew unto me; and behold, the Lord
 Jehovah called to contend by fire; and it devoured the great
 deep, and ate up the inheritance.
7:5 Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I beseech thee! How
 shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
7:6 Jehovah repented for this: This also shall not be, said the
 Lord Jehovah.
7:7 Thus did he shew unto me; and behold, the Lord stood upon a
 wall [made] by a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his hand.
7:8 And Jehovah said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said,
 A plumb-line. And the Lord said, Behold, I will set a
 plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again
 pass by them any more.
7:9 And the high places of Isaac shall be desolated, and the
 sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will arise
 against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
7:10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of
 Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst
 of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his
 words.
7:11 For thus Amos saith: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and
 Israel shall certainly go into captivity out of his land.
7:12 And Amaziah said unto Amos, [Thou] seer, go, flee away into
 the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there.
7:13 But prophesy not again any more at Bethel; for it is the
 king's sanctuary, and it is the house of the kingdom.
7:14 And Amos answered and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet,
 neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdman, and a
 gatherer of sycamore fruit.
7:15 And Jehovah took me as I followed the flock, and Jehovah
 said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
7:16 And now hear thou the word of Jehovah: Thou sayest,
 Prophesy not against Israel, and utter not [words] against the
 house of Isaac.
7:17 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Thy wife shall be a harlot in
 the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the
 sword, and thy land shall be divided with the line; and thou
 shalt die in a land that is unclean; and Israel shall certainly
 go into captivity, out of his land.
8:1 Thus did Jehovah shew unto me; and behold, a basket of
 summer-fruit.
8:2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of
 summer-fruit. And Jehovah said unto me, The end is come upon my
 people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more.
8:3 And the songs of the palace shall be howlings in that day,
 saith the Lord Jehovah. The dead bodies shall be many; in every
 place they shall be cast forth. Silence!
8:4 Hear this, ye that pant after the needy, even to cause to
 fail the poor of the land,
8:5 saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell
 corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat? making the
 ephah small and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances
 for deceit:
8:6 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a
 pair of shoes; and that we may sell the refuse of the wheat.
8:7 Jehovah hath sworn by the glory of Jacob, Certainly I will
 never forget any of their works.
8:8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn
 that dwelleth therein? And it shall wholly rise up like the
 Nile; and it shall surge and sink down, as the river of Egypt.
8:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord
 Jehovah, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I
 will darken the land in the clear day.
8:10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your
 songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all
 loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the
 mourning for an only [son], and the end thereof as a bitter
 day.
8:11 Behold, days come, saith the Lord Jehovah, when I will send
 a famine in the land; not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for
 water, but of hearing the words of Jehovah.
8:12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north
 to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of
 Jehovah, and shall not find it.
8:13 In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint
 for thirst;
8:14 they that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, [As] thy
 god, O Dan, liveth! and, [As] the way of Beer-sheba liveth!
 even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
9:1 I saw the Lord standing upon the altar; and he said, Smite
 the chapiter that the thresholds may shake; and break all of
 them in pieces, in the head; and I will slay the last of them
 with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not get away by
 flight, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.
9:2 Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall my hand take them;
 and though they climb up to the heavens, thence will I bring
 them down;
9:3 and though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, I will
 search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my
 sight in the bottom of the sea, there will I command the
 serpent, and it shall bite them;
9:4 and though they go into captivity before their enemies,
 there will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I
 will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
9:5 And the Lord Jehovah of hosts is he that toucheth the land,
 and it melteth, and all that dwell therein shall mourn; and it
 shall wholly rise up like the Nile, and sink down as the river
 of Egypt.
9:6 It is he that buildeth his upper chambers in the heavens,
 and hath founded his vault upon the earth; he that calleth for
 the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of
 the earth: Jehovah is his name.
9:7 Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children
 of Israel? saith Jehovah. Have not I brought up Israel out of
 the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the
 Syrians from Kir?
9:8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah are upon the sinful
 kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth:
 only that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith
 Jehovah.
9:9 For behold, I command, and I will shake the house of Israel
 to and fro among all the nations, like as one shaketh [corn] in
 a sieve; yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
9:10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who
 say, Evil shall not overtake nor befall us.
9:11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David which
 is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise
 up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
9:12 that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the
 nations upon whom my name is called, saith Jehovah who doeth
 this.
9:13 Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, when the ploughman
 shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that
 soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop new wine, and all the
 hills shall melt.
9:14 And I will turn again the captivity of my people Israel,
 and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and
 they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; and
 they shall make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
9:15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no
 more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them,
 saith Jehovah thy God.