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Amos 1

 ¹ The words of Amos, one of the shepherds of Tekoa—what he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash ^[a] was king of Israel.

 ² He said:
       "The LORD roars from Zion
       and thunders from Jerusalem;
       the pastures of the shepherds dry up, ^[b]
       and the top of Carmel withers."

Judgment on Israel's Neighbors

 ⁴ I will send fire upon the house of Hazael
       that will consume the fortresses of Ben-Hadad.

 ⁵ I will break down the gate of Damascus;
       I will destroy the king who is in ^[c] the Valley of Aven ^[d]
       and the one who holds the scepter in Beth Eden.
       The people of Aram will go into exile to Kir,"
       says the LORD.

 ⁶ This is what the LORD says:
       "For three sins of Gaza,
       even for four, I will not turn back my wrath .
       Because she took captive whole communities
       and sold them to Edom,

 ⁷ I will send fire upon the walls of Gaza
       that will consume her fortresses.

 ⁸ I will destroy the king ^[e] of Ashdod
       and the one who holds the scepter in Ashkelon.
       I will turn my hand against Ekron,
       till the last of the Philistines is dead,"
       says the Sovereign LORD.

 ⁹ This is what the LORD says:
       "For three sins of Tyre,
       even for four, I will not turn back my wrath .
       Because she sold whole communities of captives to Edom,
       disregarding a treaty of brotherhood,

 ¹⁰ I will send fire upon the walls of Tyre
       that will consume her fortresses."

 ¹¹ This is what the LORD says:
       "For three sins of Edom,
       even for four, I will not turn back my wrath .
       Because he pursued his brother with a sword,
       stifling all compassion, ^[f]
       because his anger raged continually
       and his fury flamed unchecked,

 ¹² I will send fire upon Teman
       that will consume the fortresses of Bozrah."

 ¹³ This is what the LORD says:
       "For three sins of Ammon,
       even for four, I will not turn back {my wrath}.
       Because he ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead
       in order to extend his borders,

 ¹⁴ I will set fire to the walls of Rabbah
       that will consume her fortresses
       amid war cries on the day of battle,
       amid violent winds on a stormy day.

 ¹⁵ Her king ^[g] will go into exile,
       he and his officials together,"
       says the LORD.

Amos 2

 ¹ This is what the LORD says:
       "For three sins of Moab,
       even for four, I will not turn back {my wrath}.
       Because he burned, as if to lime,
       the bones of Edom's king,

 ² I will send fire upon Moab
       that will consume the fortresses of Kerioth. ^[h]
       Moab will go down in great tumult
       amid war cries and the blast of the trumpet.

 ³ I will destroy her ruler
       and kill all her officials with him,"
       says the LORD.

 ⁴ This is what the LORD says:
       "For three sins of Judah,
       even for four, I will not turn back {my wrath}.
       Because they have rejected the law of the LORD
       and have not kept his decrees,
       because they have been led astray by false gods, ^[i]
       the gods ^[j] their ancestors followed,

 ⁵ I will send fire upon Judah
       that will consume the fortresses of Jerusalem."

Judgment on Israel

 ⁷ They trample on the heads of the poor
       as upon the dust of the ground
       and deny justice to the oppressed.
       Father and son use the same girl
       and so profane my holy name.

 ⁸ They lie down beside every altar
       on garments taken in pledge.
       In the house of their god
       they drink wine taken as fines.

 ⁹ "I destroyed the Amorite before them,
       though he was tall as the cedars
       and strong as the oaks.
       I destroyed his fruit above
       and his roots below.

 ¹⁰ "I brought you up out of Egypt,
       and I led you forty years in the desert
       to give you the land of the Amorites.

 ¹¹ I also raised up prophets from among your sons
       and Nazirites from among your young men.
       Is this not true, people of Israel?"
       declares the LORD.

 ¹² "But you made the Nazirites drink wine
       and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.

 ¹³ "Now then, I will crush you
       as a cart crushes when loaded with grain.

 ¹⁴ The swift will not escape,
       the strong will not muster their strength,
       and the warrior will not save his life.

 ¹⁵ The archer will not stand his ground,
       the fleet-footed soldier will not get away,
       and the horseman will not save his life.

 ¹⁶ Even the bravest warriors
       will flee naked on that day,"
       declares the LORD.

Amos 3

Witnesses Summoned Against Israel

 ² "You only have I chosen
       of all the families of the earth;
       therefore I will punish you
       for all your sins."

 ³ Do two walk together
       unless they have agreed to do so?

 ⁴ Does a lion roar in the thicket
       when he has no prey?
       Does he growl in his den
       when he has caught nothing?

 ⁵ Does a bird fall into a trap on the ground
       where no snare has been set?
       Does a trap spring up from the earth
       when there is nothing to catch?

 ⁶ When a trumpet sounds in a city,
       do not the people tremble?
       When disaster comes to a city,
       has not the LORD caused it?

 ⁷ Surely the Sovereign LORD does nothing
       without revealing his plan
       to his servants the prophets.

 ⁸ The lion has roared—
       who will not fear?
       The Sovereign LORD has spoken—
       who can but prophesy?

 ⁹ Proclaim to the fortresses of Ashdod
       and to the fortresses of Egypt:
       "Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria;
       see the great unrest within her
       and the oppression among her people."

 ¹⁰ "They do not know how to do right," declares the LORD,
       "who hoard plunder and loot in their fortresses."

 ¹¹ Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says:
       "An enemy will overrun the land;
       he will pull down your strongholds
       and plunder your fortresses."

 ¹² This is what the LORD says:
       "As a shepherd saves from the lion's mouth
       only two leg bones or a piece of an ear,
       so will the Israelites be saved,
       those who sit in Samaria
       on the edge of their beds
       and in Damascus on their couches. ^[k] "

 ¹³ "Hear this and testify against the house of Jacob," declares the Lord, the LORD God Almighty.

 ¹⁴ "On the day I punish Israel for her sins,
       I will destroy the altars of Bethel;
       the horns of the altar will be cut off
       and fall to the ground.

 ¹⁵ I will tear down the winter house
       along with the summer house;
       the houses adorned with ivory will be destroyed
       and the mansions will be demolished,"
       declares the LORD.

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Revelation 6

The Seals

 ³When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, "Come!" ⁴Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other. To him was given a large sword.

 ⁵When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. ⁶Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, "A quart^[a] of wheat for a day's wages,^[b] and three quarts of barley for a day's wages,^[c] and do not damage the oil and the wine!"

 ⁷When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!" ⁸I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

 ⁹When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. ¹⁰They called out in a loud voice, "How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?" ¹¹Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed.

 ¹²I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, ¹³and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. ¹⁴The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.

 ¹⁵Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. ¹⁶They called to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! ¹⁷For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?"