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These are the words of Amos, one of the sheep farmers from Tekoa. He saw a vision about Israel during the reigns of Judah’s King Uzziah and Israel’s King Jeroboam, son of Joash. This happened two years before the earthquake.

He said:

Yahweh roars from Zion,
    and his voice thunders from Jerusalem.
    The pastures of the shepherds are turning brown,
    and the top of Mount Carmel is dried up.

Damascus Will Be Judged for Its Crimes

This is what Yahweh says:

Because Damascus has committed three crimes, and now a fourth crime,
    I will not change my plans.
        The Arameans have crushed the people of Gilead
            with iron-spiked threshing[a] sledges.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 1:3 Threshing is the process of beating stalks to separate them from the grain.

The words of Amos, one of the shepherds of Tekoa(A)—the vision he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake,(B) when Uzziah(C) was king of Judah and Jeroboam(D) son of Jehoash[a] was king of Israel.(E)

He said:

“The Lord roars(F) from Zion
    and thunders(G) from Jerusalem;(H)
the pastures of the shepherds dry up,
    and the top of Carmel(I) withers.”(J)

Judgment on Israel’s Neighbors

This is what the Lord says:

“For three sins of Damascus,(K)
    even for four, I will not relent.(L)
Because she threshed Gilead
    with sledges having iron teeth,

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 1:1 Hebrew Joash, a variant of Jehoash