16 Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall bein all streets;
and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to
mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
17 And in all vineyards shall bewailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.
18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end isit for you? the day of the LORD
isdarkness, and not light.
19 As if a man did flee 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.
20 Shallnot the day of the LORD bedarkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness
in it?
21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither
will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of
Israel?
26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god,
which ye made to yourselves.
27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose
name isThe God of hosts.
1 Woe to them that areat ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which arenamed
chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!
2 Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath
of the Philistines: be theybetter than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your
border?
3 Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
4 That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out
of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
5 That chant to the sound of the viol, andinvent to themselves instruments of musick, like
David;
6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not
grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
7 Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them
that stretched themselves shall be removed.
8 The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency
of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
10 And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of
the house, and shall say unto him that isby the sides of the house, Is thereyet anywith thee?
and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the
name of the LORD.
11 For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the
little house with clefts.
12 Shall horses run upon the rock? will oneplow therewith oxen? for ye have turned judgment
into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
13 Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own
strength?
14 But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of
hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the
wilderness.
1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning
of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it wasthe latter growth after the king's
mowings.
2 And it came to pass, thatwhen they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I
said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he issmall.
3 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.
4 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire,
and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
5 Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he issmall.
6 The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.
7 Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall madeby a plumbline, with a
plumbline in his hand.
8 And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the
Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by
them any more:
9 And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid
waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
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.
11 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away
captive out of their own land.
12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and
there eat bread, and prophesy there:
13 But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it isthe king's chapel, and it isthe king's
court.
14 Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I wasno prophet, neither wasI a prophet's son;
but I wasan herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
15 And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto
my people Israel.
16 Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and
drop not thy wordagainst the house of Isaac.
17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy
daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a
polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.
1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD
unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be
many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast themforth with silence.
4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
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
by deceit?
6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the
refuse of the wheat?
7 The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their
works.
8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall
rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as bythe flood of Egypt.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down
at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
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 of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine
of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to
and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of
Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
1 I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the
posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the
sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be
delivered.
2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven,
thence will I bring them down:
3 And though they hide themselves in 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, thence will I command the
serpent, and he shall bite them:
4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and
it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
5 And the Lord GOD of hosts ishe that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell
therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as bythe
flood of Egypt.
6 It ishe that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he
that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD
ishis name.
7 Areye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have
not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the
Syrians from Kir?
8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD areupon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off
the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.
9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as cornis
sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake
nor prevent us.
11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches
thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my
name, saith the LORD that doeth this.
13 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the
treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the
hills shall melt.
