Daily Reading

Amos 1:1-2:16

1:1 The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen 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.
1:2 And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his
voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds
shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.

1:3 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus,
and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of
iron:

1:4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall
devour the palaces of Benhadad.

1:5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the
inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the
sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall
go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.

1:6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and
for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to
deliver them up to Edom:

1:7 But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall
devour the palaces thereof:

1:8 And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that
holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand
against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,
saith the Lord GOD.

1:9 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and
for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and
remembered not the brotherly covenant:

1:10 But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall
devour the palaces thereof.

1:11 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and
for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast
off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept
his wrath for ever:

1:12 But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the
palaces of Bozrah.

1:13 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the
children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the
punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with
child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:

1:14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it
shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of
battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:

1:15 And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes
together, saith the LORD.

2:1 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
2:2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the
palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with
shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:

2:3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and
will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.

2:4 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and
for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not
kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after
the which their fathers have walked:

2:5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the
palaces of Jerusalem.

2:6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and
for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a
pair of shoes;

2:7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the
poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his
father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy
name:

2:8 And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge
by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in
the house of their god.

2:9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was
like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks;
yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from
beneath.

2:10 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you
forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the
Amorite.

2:11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your
young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children
of Israel? saith the LORD.

2:12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the
prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

2:13 Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that
is full of sheaves.

2:14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the
strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty
deliver himself:

2:15 Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that
is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he
that rideth the horse deliver himself.

2:16 And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee
away naked in that day, saith the LORD.



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