[0] And it shall come to pass that all who call upon the name of the LORD
shall be delivered; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those
who escape, as the LORD has said, and among the survivors shall be those
whom the LORD calls. [1] The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds of
Teko'a, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzzi'ah king of Judah
and in the days of Jerobo'am the son of Jo'ash, king of Israel, two years
before the earthquake. [2] And he said: "The LORD roars from Zion, and
utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and
the top of Carmel withers." [3] Thus says the LORD: "For three
transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment;
because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron. [4] So I
will send a fire upon the house of Haz'ael, and it shall devour the
strongholds of Ben-ha'dad. [5] I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut
off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven, and him that holds the scepter
from Beth-eden; and the people of Syria shall go into exile to Kir," says
the LORD. [6] Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Gaza, and
for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they carried into exile
a whole people to deliver them up to Edom. [7] So I will send a fire upon
the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour her strongholds. [8] I will cut off
the inhabitants from Ashdod, and him that holds the scepter from Ash'kelon;
I will turn my hand against Ekron; and the remnant of the Philistines shall
perish," says the Lord GOD. [9] Thus says the LORD: "For three
transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment;
because they delivered up a whole people to Edom, and did not remember the
covenant of brotherhood. [10] So I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre,
and it shall devour her strongholds." [11] Thus says the LORD: "For three
transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment;
because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and
his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever. [12] So I will
send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the strongholds of Bozrah."
[13] Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of the Ammonites, and
for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they have ripped up
women with child in Gilead, that they might enlarge their border. [14] So I
will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour her
strongholds, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day
of the whirlwind; [15] and their king shall go into exile, he and his
princes together," says the LORD.
