Amos 1:1-3

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Judgment on Neighboring Nations

1 The words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of ^[a]Tekoa, which he saw [in a divine revelation] concerning ^[b]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.^(A)

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And he said,
“The Lord thunders and roars from Zion [in judgment]
And utters His voice from Jerusalem;
Then the pastures of the shepherds mourn,
And the summit of [Mount] Carmel dries up [because of God’s judgment].”^(B)

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Thus says the Lord,
“For three transgressions of Damascus and for four (multiplied delinquencies)
I shall not reverse its punishment or revoke My word concerning it,
Because they have threshed Gilead [east of the Jordan River] with sharp iron sledges [having spikes that crushed and shredded].^(C)

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Footnotes

Amos 1:1 Tekoa was a small town in Judah about 10 miles south of Jerusalem.
Amos 1:1 Amos was from the Southern Kingdom, Judah, but his message of divine judgment was primarily directed to the Northern Kingdom, Israel.