Amos 1

¹ Words of Amos who was one of the shepherds of Tekoa. The visions he had about Israel in the time of Uzziah king of Judah and of Jeroboam[*a] son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

² He said: Yahweh roars from Zion, and makes his voice heard from Jerusalem; the shepherds’ pastures mourn, and the crown of Carmel withers.

³ Yahweh says this: For the three crimes, the four crimes,[*b] of Damascus I have made my decree and will not relent: because they have thrashed Gilead with iron threshing-sledges,

⁴ I am going to hurl fire on the House of Hazael

⁵ to burn up Ben-hadad’s[*c] palaces; I am going to break the gate bars of Damascus, and cut down the one enthroned at Bikath-aven and the sceptred one at Beth-eden;[*d] and the people of Aram shall go captive to Kir, says Yahweh.

⁶ Yahweh says this: For the three crimes, the four crimes, of Gaza I have made my decree and will not relent: because they have deported entire nations as slaves to Edom,

⁷ I am going to hurl fire on the walls of Gaza to burn up her palaces.

⁸ I am going to cut down the one enthroned at Ashdod and the sceptred one at Ashkelon; I am going to turn my hand against Ekron until the last of the Philistines is dead, says Yahweh.

⁹ Yahweh says this: For the three crimes, the four crimes, of Tyre I have made my decree and will not relent: because they have deported entire nations as slaves to Edom and have not remembered the covenant of brotherhood,

¹⁰ I am going to hurl fire on the walls of Tyre to burn up her palaces.

¹¹ Yahweh says this: For the three crimes, the four crimes, of Edom I have made my decree and will not relent: because he has persecuted his brother with the sword, stifling his pity, persistently nursing his fury and ever cherishing his rage,

¹² I am going to hurl fire on Teman[*e] to burn up the palaces of Bozrah.

¹³ Yahweh says this: For the three crimes, the four crimes, of the sons of Ammon I have made my decree and will not relent: because they have disembowelled the pregnant women of Gilead in order to extend their own frontiers,

¹⁴ I am going to light a fire against the wall of Rabbah to burn up her palaces, to the sound of war-cries on the day of battle, amid storms on a day of hurricane;

¹⁵ and their king shall go into exile, he and his princes with him, says Yahweh.