Amos 1

¹The 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 .

²And 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 .

³Thus 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 .

⁴So I will send a fire upon the house of Hazael , and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad .

⁵I will break the gate-bar of Damascus , and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven , and him who holds the scepter from Beth-eden ; and the people of Syria shall go into exile to Kir , says the Lord.

⁶Thus 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 .

⁷So I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza , and it shall devour her strongholds .

⁸I 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.

⁹Thus 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 .

¹⁰So I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre , and it shall devour her strongholds .

¹¹Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Edom , and for four , I will not revoke the punishment , because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity , and his anger tore perpetually , and he kept his wrath forever .

¹²So I will send a fire upon Teman , and it shall devour the strongholds of Bozrah .

¹³Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of the Ammonites , and for four , I will not revoke the punishment, because they have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead , that they might enlarge their border .

¹⁴So I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah , and it shall devour her strongholds , with shouting on the day of battle , with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind ;

¹⁵and their king shall go into exile , he and his princes together , says the Lord.