Song of Solomon 5-8
New King James Version
The Bride Praises the Bridegroom
The Beloved
5 I (A)have come to my garden, my (B)sister, my spouse;
I have gathered my myrrh with my spice;
(C)I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey;
I have drunk my wine with my milk.
(To His Friends)
Eat, O (D)friends!
Drink, yes, drink deeply,
O beloved ones!
The Shulamite’s Troubled Evening
The Shulamite
2 I sleep, but my heart is awake;
It is the voice of my beloved!
(E)He knocks, saying,
“Open for me, my sister, [a]my love,
My dove, my perfect one;
For my head is covered with dew,
My [b]locks with the drops of the night.”
3 I have taken off my robe;
How can I put it on again?
I have washed my feet;
How can I [c]defile them?
4 My beloved put his hand
By the [d]latch of the door,
And my heart yearned for him.
5 I arose to open for my beloved,
And my hands dripped with myrrh,
My fingers with liquid myrrh,
On the handles of the lock.
6 I opened for my beloved,
But my beloved had turned away and was gone.
My [e]heart leaped up when he spoke.
(F)I sought him, but I could not find him;
I called him, but he gave me no answer.
7 (G)The watchmen who went about the city found me.
They struck me, they wounded me;
The keepers of the walls
Took my veil away from me.
8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
If you find my beloved,
That you tell him I am lovesick!
The Daughters of Jerusalem
9 What is your beloved
More than another beloved,
(H)O fairest among women?
What is your beloved
More than another beloved,
That you so [f]charge us?
The Shulamite
10 My beloved is white and ruddy,
[g]Chief among ten thousand.
11 His head is like the finest gold;
His locks are wavy,
And black as a raven.
12 (I)His eyes are like doves
By the rivers of waters,
Washed with milk,
And [h]fitly set.
13 His cheeks are like a bed of spices,
Banks of scented herbs.
His lips are lilies,
Dripping liquid myrrh.
14 His hands are rods of gold
Set with beryl.
His body is carved ivory
Inlaid with sapphires.
15 His legs are pillars of marble
Set on bases of fine gold.
His countenance is like Lebanon,
Excellent as the cedars.
16 His mouth is most sweet,
Yes, he is altogether lovely.
This is my beloved,
And this is my friend,
O daughters of Jerusalem!
I Am My Beloved’s
The Daughters of Jerusalem
6 Where has your beloved gone,
(J)O fairest among women?
Where has your beloved turned aside,
That we may seek him with you?
The Shulamite
2 My beloved has gone to his (K)garden,
To the beds of spices,
To feed his flock in the gardens,
And to gather lilies.
3 (L)I am my beloved’s,
And my beloved is mine.
He feeds his flock among the lilies.
Praise of the Shulamite’s Beauty
The Beloved
4 O my love, you are as beautiful as Tirzah,
Lovely as Jerusalem,
Awesome as an army with banners!
5 Turn your eyes away from me,
For they have [i]overcome me.
Your hair is (M)like a flock of goats
Going down from Gilead.
6 (N)Your teeth are like a flock of sheep
Which have come up from the washing;
Every one bears twins,
And none is [j]barren among them.
7 (O)Like a piece of pomegranate
Are your temples behind your veil.
8 There are sixty queens
And eighty concubines,
And (P)virgins without number.
9 My dove, my (Q)perfect one,
Is the only one,
The only one of her mother,
The favorite of the one who bore her.
The daughters saw her
And called her blessed,
The queens and the concubines,
And they praised her.
10 Who is she who looks forth as the morning,
Fair as the moon,
Clear as the sun,
(R)Awesome as an army with banners?
The Shulamite
11 I went down to the garden of nuts
To see the verdure of the valley,
(S)To see whether the vine had budded
And the pomegranates had bloomed.
12 Before I was even aware,
My soul had made me
As the chariots of [k]my noble people.
The Beloved and His Friends
13 Return, return, O Shulamite;
Return, return, that we may look upon you!
The Shulamite
What would you see in the Shulamite—
As it were, the dance of [l]the two camps?
Expressions of Praise
The Beloved
7 How beautiful are your feet in sandals,
(T)O prince’s daughter!
The curves of your thighs are like jewels,
The work of the hands of a skillful workman.
2 Your navel is a rounded goblet;
It lacks no [m]blended beverage.
Your waist is a heap of wheat
Set about with lilies.
3 (U)Your two breasts are like two fawns,
Twins of a gazelle.
4 (V)Your neck is like an ivory tower,
Your eyes like the pools in Heshbon
By the gate of Bath Rabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon
Which looks toward Damascus.
5 Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel,
And the hair of your head is like purple;
A king is held captive by your tresses.
6 How fair and how pleasant you are,
O love, with your delights!
7 This stature of yours is like a palm tree,
And your breasts like its clusters.
8 I said, “I will go up to the palm tree,
I will take hold of its branches.”
Let now your breasts be like clusters of the vine,
The fragrance of your [n]breath like apples,
9 And the roof of your mouth like the best wine.
The Shulamite
The wine goes down smoothly for my beloved,
[o]Moving gently the [p]lips of sleepers.
10 (W)I am my beloved’s,
And (X)his desire is toward me.
11 Come, my beloved,
Let us go forth to the field;
Let us lodge in the villages.
12 Let us get up early to the vineyards;
Let us (Y)see if the vine has budded,
Whether the grape blossoms are open,
And the pomegranates are in bloom.
There I will give you my love.
13 The (Z)mandrakes give off a fragrance,
And at our gates (AA)are pleasant fruits,
All manner, new and old,
Which I have laid up for you, my beloved.
Lovers Reunited at Their Country Home
8 Oh, that you were like my brother,
Who nursed at my mother’s breasts!
If I should find you outside,
I would kiss you;
I would not be despised.
2 I would lead you and bring you
Into the (AB)house of my mother,
She who used to instruct me.
I would cause you to drink of (AC)spiced wine,
Of the juice of my pomegranate.
(To the Daughters of Jerusalem)
3 (AD)His left hand is under my head,
And his right hand embraces me.
4 (AE)I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
Do not stir up nor awaken love
Until it pleases.
Love Renewed in Lebanon
A Relative
5 (AF)Who is this coming up from the wilderness,
Leaning upon her beloved?
I awakened you under the apple tree.
There your mother brought you forth;
There she who bore you brought you forth.
The Shulamite to Her Beloved
6 (AG)Set me as a seal upon your heart,
As a seal upon your arm;
For love is as strong as death,
(AH)Jealousy as [q]cruel as [r]the grave;
Its flames are flames of fire,
[s]A most vehement flame.
7 Many waters cannot quench love,
Nor can the floods drown it.
(AI)If a man would give for love
All the wealth of his house,
It would be utterly despised.
The Shulamite’s Brothers
8 (AJ)We have a little sister,
And she has no breasts.
What shall we do for our sister
In the day when she is spoken for?
9 If she is a wall,
We will build upon her
A battlement of silver;
And if she is a door,
We will enclose her
With boards of cedar.
The Shulamite
10 I am a wall,
And my breasts like towers;
Then I became in his eyes
As one who found peace.
11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon;
(AK)He leased the vineyard to keepers;
Everyone was to bring for its fruit
A thousand silver coins.
(To Solomon)
12 My own vineyard is before me.
You, O Solomon, may have a thousand,
And those who tend its fruit two hundred.
The Beloved
13 You who dwell in the gardens,
The companions listen for your voice—
(AL)Let me hear it!
The Shulamite
14 (AM)Make[t] haste, my beloved,
And (AN)be like a gazelle
Or a young stag
On the mountains of spices.
Notas al pie
- Song of Solomon 5:2 my companion, friend
- Song of Solomon 5:2 curls or hair
- Song of Solomon 5:3 dirty
- Song of Solomon 5:4 opening
- Song of Solomon 5:6 Lit. soul
- Song of Solomon 5:9 adjure
- Song of Solomon 5:10 Distinguished
- Song of Solomon 5:12 sitting in a setting
- Song of Solomon 6:5 overwhelmed
- Song of Solomon 6:6 bereaved
- Song of Solomon 6:12 Heb. Ammi Nadib
- Song of Solomon 6:13 Heb. Mahanaim
- Song of Solomon 7:2 Lit. mixed or spiced drink
- Song of Solomon 7:8 Lit. nose
- Song of Solomon 7:9 Gliding over
- Song of Solomon 7:9 LXX, Syr., Vg. lips and teeth.
- Song of Solomon 8:6 severe, lit. hard
- Song of Solomon 8:6 Or Sheol
- Song of Solomon 8:6 Lit. A flame of Yah, poetic form of YHWH, the Lord
- Song of Solomon 8:14 Hurry, lit. Flee
Amos 1-9
New King James Version
Judgments on Israel’s Neighbors
1 The words of Amos, who was among the (A)sheepbreeders of (B)Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of (C)Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of (D)Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the (E)earthquake.
2 And he said:
“The Lord (F)roars from Zion,
And utters His voice from Jerusalem;
The pastures of the shepherds mourn,
And the top of (G)Carmel withers.”
Judgment on the Nations
3 Thus says the Lord:
“For three transgressions of (H)Damascus, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because they have (I)threshed Gilead with implements of iron.
4 (J)But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael,
Which shall devour the palaces of (K)Ben-Hadad.
5 I will also break the gate (L)bar of Damascus,
And cut off the inhabitant from the Valley of Aven,
And the one who [a]holds the scepter from [b]Beth Eden.
The people of Syria shall go captive to Kir,”
Says the Lord.
6 Thus says the Lord:
“For three transgressions of (M)Gaza, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because they took captive the whole captivity
To deliver them up to Edom.
7 (N)But I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza,
Which shall devour its palaces.
8 I will cut off the inhabitant (O)from Ashdod,
And the one who holds the scepter from Ashkelon;
I will (P)turn My hand against Ekron,
And (Q)the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,”
Says the Lord God.
9 Thus says the Lord:
“For three transgressions of (R)Tyre, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom,
And did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.
10 But I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre,
Which shall devour its palaces.”
11 Thus says the Lord:
“For three transgressions of (S)Edom, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because he pursued his (T)brother with the sword,
And cast off all pity;
His anger tore perpetually,
And he kept his wrath forever.
12 But (U)I will send a fire upon Teman,
Which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.”
13 Thus says the Lord:
“For three transgressions of (V)the people of Ammon, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because they ripped open the women with child in Gilead,
That they might enlarge their territory.
14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of (W)Rabbah,
And it shall devour its palaces,
(X)Amid shouting in the day of battle,
And a tempest in the day of the whirlwind.
15 (Y)Their king shall go into captivity,
He and his princes together,”
Says the Lord.
Judgment on Israel
2 Thus says the Lord:
(Z)“For three transgressions of Moab, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because he (AA)burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime.
2 But I will send a fire upon Moab,
And it shall devour the palaces of (AB)Kerioth;
Moab shall die with tumult,
With shouting and trumpet sound.
3 And I will cut off (AC)the judge from its midst,
And slay all its princes with him,”
Says the Lord.
Judgment on Judah
4 Thus says the Lord:
“For three transgressions of (AD)Judah, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
(AE)Because they have despised the law of the Lord,
And have not kept His commandments.
(AF)Their lies lead them astray,
Lies (AG)which their fathers followed.
5 (AH)But I will send a fire upon Judah,
And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.”
Judgment on Israel
6 Thus says the Lord:
“For three transgressions of (AI)Israel, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because (AJ)they sell the righteous for silver,
And the (AK)poor for a pair of sandals.
7 They [c]pant after the dust of the earth which is on the head of the poor,
And (AL)pervert the way of the humble.
(AM)A man and his father go in to the same girl,
(AN)To defile My holy name.
8 They lie down (AO)by every altar on clothes (AP)taken in pledge,
And drink the wine of [d]the condemned in the house of their god.
9 “Yet it was I who destroyed the (AQ)Amorite before them,
Whose height was like the (AR)height of the cedars,
And he was as strong as the oaks;
Yet I (AS)destroyed his fruit above
And his roots beneath.
10 Also it was (AT)I who brought you up from the land of Egypt,
And (AU)led you forty years through the wilderness,
To possess the land of the Amorite.
11 I raised up some of your sons as (AV)prophets,
And some of your young men as (AW)Nazirites.
Is it not so, O you children of Israel?”
Says the Lord.
12 “But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink,
And commanded the prophets (AX)saying,
‘Do not prophesy!’
13 “Behold,(AY) I am [e]weighed down by you,
As a cart full of sheaves [f]is weighed down.
14 (AZ)Therefore [g]flight shall perish from the swift,
The strong shall not strengthen his power,
(BA)Nor shall the mighty [h]deliver himself;
15 He shall not stand who handles the bow,
The swift of foot shall not [i]escape,
Nor shall he who rides a horse deliver himself.
16 The most [j]courageous men of might
Shall flee naked in that day,”
Says the Lord.
Authority of the Prophet’s Message
3 Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying:
2 “You(BB) only have I known of all the families of the earth;
(BC)Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”
3 Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?
4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey?
Will a young lion [k]cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing?
5 Will a bird fall into a snare on the earth, where there is no [l]trap for it?
Will a snare spring up from the earth, if it has caught nothing at all?
6 If a [m]trumpet is blown in a city, will not the people be afraid?
(BD)If there is calamity in a city, will not the Lord have done it?
7 Surely the Lord God does nothing,
Unless (BE)He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.
8 A lion has roared!
Who will not fear?
The Lord God has spoken!
(BF)Who can but prophesy?
Punishment of Israel’s Sins
9 “Proclaim in the palaces at [n]Ashdod,
And in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say:
‘Assemble on the mountains of Samaria;
See great tumults in her midst,
And the [o]oppressed within her.
10 For they (BG)do not know to do right,’
Says the Lord,
‘Who store up violence and [p]robbery in their palaces.’ ”
11 Therefore thus says the Lord God:
“An adversary shall be all around the land;
He shall sap your strength from you,
And your palaces shall be plundered.”
12 Thus says the Lord:
“As a shepherd [q]takes from the mouth of a lion
Two legs or a piece of an ear,
So shall the children of Israel be taken out
Who dwell in Samaria—
In the corner of a bed and [r]on the edge of a couch!
13 Hear and testify against the house of Jacob,”
Says the Lord God, the God of hosts,
14 “That in the day I punish Israel for their transgressions,
I will also visit destruction on the altars of (BH)Bethel;
And the horns of the altar shall be cut off
And fall to the ground.
15 I will [s]destroy (BI)the winter house along with (BJ)the summer house;
The (BK)houses of ivory shall perish,
And the great houses shall have an end,”
Says the Lord.
God’s Punishments Have Not Reformed Israel
4 Hear this word, you (BL)cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria,
Who oppress the (BM)poor,
Who crush the needy,
Who say to [t]your husbands, “Bring wine, let us (BN)drink!”
2 (BO)The Lord God has sworn by His holiness:
“Behold, the days shall come upon you
When He will take you away (BP)with fishhooks,
And your posterity with fishhooks.
3 (BQ)You will go out through broken walls,
Each one straight ahead of her,
And you will [u]be cast into Harmon,”
Says the Lord.
4 “Come(BR) to Bethel and transgress,
At (BS)Gilgal multiply transgression;
(BT)Bring your sacrifices every morning,
(BU)Your tithes every three [v]days.
5 (BV)Offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven,
Proclaim and announce (BW)the freewill offerings;
For this you love,
You children of Israel!”
Says the Lord God.
Israel Did Not Accept Correction
6 “Also I gave you [w]cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
And lack of bread in all your places;
(BX)Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.
7 “I also withheld rain from you,
When there were still three months to the harvest.
I made it rain on one city,
I withheld rain from another city.
One part was rained upon,
And where it did not rain the part withered.
8 So two or three cities wandered to another city to drink water,
But they were not satisfied;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.
9 “I(BY) blasted you with blight and mildew.
When your gardens increased,
Your vineyards,
Your fig trees,
And your olive trees,
(BZ)The locust devoured them;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.
10 “I sent among you a plague (CA)after the manner of Egypt;
Your young men I killed with a sword,
Along with your captive horses;
I made the stench of your camps come up into your nostrils;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.
11 “I overthrew some of you,
As God overthrew (CB)Sodom and Gomorrah,
And you were like a firebrand plucked from the burning;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.
12 “Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel;
Because I will do this to you,
(CC)Prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”
13 For behold,
He who forms mountains,
And creates the [x]wind,
(CD)Who declares to man what [y]his thought is,
And makes the morning darkness,
(CE)Who treads the high places of the earth—
(CF)The Lord God of hosts is His name.
A Lament for Israel
5 Hear this word which I (CG)take up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel:
2 The virgin of Israel has fallen;
She will rise no more.
She lies forsaken on her land;
There is no one to raise her up.
3 For thus says the Lord God:
“The city that goes out by a thousand
Shall have a hundred left,
And that which goes out by a hundred
Shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”
A Call to Repentance
4 For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:
(CH)“Seek Me (CI)and live;
5 But do not seek (CJ)Bethel,
Nor enter Gilgal,
Nor pass over to (CK)Beersheba;
For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,
And (CL)Bethel shall come to nothing.
6 (CM)Seek the Lord and live,
Lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
And devour it,
With no one to quench it in Bethel—
7 You who (CN)turn justice to wormwood,
And lay righteousness to rest in the earth!”
8 He made the (CO)Pleiades and Orion;
He turns the shadow of death into morning
(CP)And makes the day dark as night;
He (CQ)calls for the waters of the sea
And pours them out on the face of the earth;
(CR)The Lord is His name.
9 He [z]rains ruin upon the strong,
So that fury comes upon the fortress.
10 (CS)They hate the one who rebukes in the gate,
And they (CT)abhor the one who speaks uprightly.
11 (CU)Therefore, because you [aa]tread down the poor
And take grain [ab]taxes from him,
Though (CV)you have built houses of hewn stone,
Yet you shall not dwell in them;
You have planted [ac]pleasant vineyards,
But you shall not drink wine from them.
12 For I (CW)know your manifold transgressions
And your mighty sins:
(CX)Afflicting the just and taking bribes;
(CY)Diverting the poor from justice at the gate.
13 Therefore (CZ)the prudent keep silent at that time,
For it is an evil time.
14 Seek good and not evil,
That you may live;
So the Lord God of hosts will be with you,
(DA)As you have spoken.
15 (DB)Hate evil, love good;
Establish justice in the gate.
(DC)It may be that the Lord God of hosts
Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
The Day of the Lord
16 Therefore the Lord God of hosts, the Lord, says this:
“There shall be wailing in all streets,
And they shall say in all the highways,
‘Alas! Alas!’
They shall call the farmer to mourning,
(DD)And skillful lamenters to wailing.
17 In all vineyards there shall be wailing,
For (DE)I will pass through you,”
Says the Lord.
18 (DF)Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord!
For what good is (DG)the day of the Lord to you?
It will be darkness, and not light.
19 It will be (DH)as though a man fled from a lion,
And a bear met him!
Or as though he went into the house,
Leaned his hand on the wall,
And a serpent bit him!
20 Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light?
Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it?
21 “I(DI) hate, I despise your feast days,
And (DJ)I do not savor your sacred assemblies.
22 (DK)Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings,
I will not accept them,
Nor will I regard your fattened peace offerings.
23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs,
For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.
24 (DL)But let justice run down like water,
And righteousness like a mighty stream.
25 “Did(DM) you offer Me sacrifices and offerings
In the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
26 You also carried [ad]Sikkuth[ae] (DN)your king
And Chiun, your idols,
The star of your gods,
Which you made for yourselves.
27 Therefore I will send you into captivity (DO)beyond Damascus,”
Says the Lord, (DP)whose name is the God of hosts.
Warnings to Zion and Samaria
6 Woe (DQ)to you who are at (DR)ease in Zion,
And (DS)trust in Mount Samaria,
Notable persons in the (DT)chief nation,
To whom the house of Israel comes!
2 (DU)Go over to (DV)Calneh and see;
And from there go to (DW)Hamath the great;
Then go down to Gath of the Philistines.
(DX)Are you better than these kingdoms?
Or is their territory greater than your territory?
3 Woe to you who (DY)put far off the day of (DZ)doom,
(EA)Who cause (EB)the seat of violence to come near;
4 Who lie on beds of ivory,
Stretch out on your couches,
Eat lambs from the flock
And calves from the midst of the stall;
5 (EC)Who sing idly to the sound of stringed instruments,
And invent for yourselves (ED)musical instruments (EE)like David;
6 Who (EF)drink wine from bowls,
And anoint yourselves with the best ointments,
(EG)But are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
7 Therefore they shall now go (EH)captive as the first of the captives,
And those who recline at banquets shall be removed.
8 (EI)The Lord God has sworn by Himself,
The Lord God of hosts says:
“I abhor (EJ)the pride of Jacob,
And hate his palaces;
Therefore I will deliver up the city
And all that is in it.”
9 Then it shall come to pass, that if ten men remain in one house, they shall die. 10 And when [af]a relative of the dead, with one who will burn the bodies, picks up the [ag]bodies to take them out of the house, he will say to one inside the house, “Are there any more with you?”
Then someone will say, “None.”
And he will say, (EK)“Hold your tongue! (EL)For we dare not mention the name of the Lord.”
11 For behold, (EM)the Lord gives a command:
(EN)He will break the great house into bits,
And the little house into pieces.
12 Do horses run on rocks?
Does one plow there with oxen?
Yet (EO)you have turned justice into gall,
And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,
13 You who rejoice over [ah]Lo Debar,
Who say, “Have we not taken [ai]Karnaim for ourselves
By our own strength?”
14 “But, behold, (EP)I will raise up a nation against you,
O house of Israel,”
Says the Lord God of hosts;
“And they will afflict you from the (EQ)entrance of Hamath
To the Valley of the Arabah.”
Vision of the Locusts
7 Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, He formed locust swarms at the [aj]beginning of the late crop; indeed it was the late crop after the king’s mowings. 2 And so it was, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said:
“O Lord God, forgive, I pray!
(ER)Oh,[ak] that Jacob may stand,
For he is small!”
3 So (ES)the Lord relented concerning this.
“It shall not be,” said the Lord.
Vision of the Fire
4 Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, the Lord God called [al]for conflict by fire, and it consumed the great deep and devoured the [am]territory. 5 Then I said:
“O Lord God, cease, I pray!
(ET)Oh, that Jacob may stand,
For he is small!”
6 So the Lord relented concerning this.
“This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.
Vision of the Plumb Line
7 Thus He showed me: Behold, the Lord stood on a wall made with a plumb line, with a plumb line in His hand. 8 And the Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?”
And I said, “A plumb line.”
Then the Lord said:
“Behold, (EU)I am setting a plumb line
In the midst of My people Israel;
(EV)I will not pass by them anymore.
9 (EW)The [an]high places of Isaac shall be desolate,
And the [ao]sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste.
(EX)I will rise with the sword against the house of Jeroboam.”
Amaziah’s Complaint
10 Then Amaziah the (EY)priest of (EZ)Bethel sent to (FA)Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to [ap]bear all his words. 11 For thus Amos has said:
‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword,
And Israel shall surely be led away (FB)captive
From their own land.’ ”
12 Then Amaziah said to Amos:
“Go, you seer!
Flee to the land of Judah.
There eat bread,
And there prophesy.
13 But (FC)never again prophesy at Bethel,
(FD)For it is the king’s [aq]sanctuary,
And it is the royal [ar]residence.”
14 Then Amos answered, and said to Amaziah:
“I was no prophet,
Nor was I (FE)a son of a prophet,
But I was a (FF)sheepbreeder
And a tender of sycamore fruit.
15 Then the Lord took me [as]as I followed the flock,
And the Lord said to me,
‘Go, (FG)prophesy to My people Israel.’
16 Now therefore, hear the word of the Lord:
You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel,
And (FH)do not [at]spout against the house of Isaac.’
17 “Therefore(FI) thus says the Lord:
(FJ)‘Your wife shall be a harlot in the city;
Your sons and daughters shall fall by the sword;
Your land shall be divided by survey line;
You shall die in a (FK)defiled land;
And Israel shall surely be led away captive
From his own land.’ ”
Vision of the Summer Fruit
8 Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit. 2 And He said, “Amos, what do you see?”
So I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”
Then the Lord said to me:
(FL)“The end has come upon My people Israel;
(FM)I will not pass by them anymore.
3 And (FN)the songs of the temple
Shall be wailing in that day,”
Says the Lord God—
“Many dead bodies everywhere,
(FO)They shall be thrown out in silence.”
4 Hear this, you who [au]swallow up the needy,
And make the poor of the land fail,
5 Saying:
“When will the New Moon be past,
That we may sell grain?
And (FP)the Sabbath,
That we may [av]trade wheat?
(FQ)Making the ephah small and the shekel large,
Falsifying the scales by (FR)deceit,
6 That we may buy the poor for (FS)silver,
And the needy for a pair of sandals—
Even sell the bad wheat?”
7 The Lord has sworn by (FT)the pride of Jacob:
“Surely (FU)I will never forget any of their works.
8 (FV)Shall the land not tremble for this,
And everyone mourn who dwells in it?
All of it shall swell like [aw]the River,
Heave and subside
(FW)Like the River of Egypt.
9 “And it shall come to pass in that day,” says the Lord God,
(FX)“That I will make the sun go down at noon,
And I will darken the earth in [ax]broad daylight;
10 I will turn your feasts into (FY)mourning,
(FZ)And all your songs into lamentation;
(GA)I will bring sackcloth on every waist,
And baldness on every head;
I will make it like mourning for an only son,
And its end like a bitter day.
11 “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God,
“That I will send a famine on the land,
Not a famine of bread,
Nor a thirst for water,
But (GB)of hearing the words of the Lord.
12 They shall wander from sea to sea,
And from north to east;
They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord,
But shall (GC)not find it.
13 “In that day the fair virgins
And strong young men
Shall faint from thirst.
14 Those who (GD)swear by (GE)the [ay]sin of Samaria,
Who say,
‘As your god lives, O Dan!’
And, ‘As the way of (GF)Beersheba lives!’
They shall fall and never rise again.”
The Destruction of Israel
9 I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and He said:
“Strike the [az]doorposts, that the thresholds may shake,
And (GG)break them on the heads of them all.
I will slay the last of them with the sword.
(GH)He who flees from them shall not get away,
And he who escapes from them shall not be delivered.
2 “Though(GI) they dig into [ba]hell,
From there My hand shall take them;
(GJ)Though they climb up to heaven,
From there I will bring them down;
3 And though they (GK)hide themselves on top of Carmel,
From there I will search and take them;
Though they hide from My sight at the bottom of the sea,
From there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them;
4 Though they go into captivity before their enemies,
From there (GL)I will command the sword,
And it shall slay them.
(GM)I will set My eyes on them for harm and not for good.”
5 The Lord God of hosts,
He who touches the earth and it (GN)melts,
(GO)And all who dwell there mourn;
All of it shall swell like [bb]the River,
And subside like the River of Egypt.
6 He who builds His (GP)layers[bc] in the sky,
And has founded His strata in the earth;
Who (GQ)calls for the waters of the sea,
And pours them out on the face of the earth—
(GR)The Lord is His name.
7 “Are you not like the [bd]people of Ethiopia to Me,
O children of Israel?” says the Lord.
“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
The (GS)Philistines from (GT)Caphtor,[be]
And the Syrians from (GU)Kir?
8 “Behold, (GV)the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom,
And I (GW)will destroy it from the face of the earth;
Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
Says the Lord.
9 “For surely I will command,
And will [bf]sift the house of Israel among all nations,
As grain is sifted in a sieve;
(GX)Yet not the smallest [bg]grain shall fall to the ground.
10 All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword,
(GY)Who say, ‘The calamity shall not overtake nor confront us.’
Israel Will Be Restored
11 “On(GZ) that day I will raise up
The [bh]tabernacle of David, which has fallen down,
And [bi]repair its damages;
I will raise up its ruins,
And rebuild it as in the days of old;
12 (HA)That they may possess the remnant of (HB)Edom,[bj]
And all the Gentiles who are called by My name,”
Says the Lord who does this thing.
13 “Behold, (HC)the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“When the plowman shall overtake the reaper,
And the treader of grapes him who sows seed;
(HD)The mountains shall drip with sweet wine,
And all the hills shall flow with it.
14 (HE)I will bring back the captives of My people Israel;
(HF)They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them;
They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them;
They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them.
15 I will plant them in their land,
(HG)And no longer shall they be pulled up
From the land I have given them,”
Says the Lord your God.
Notas al pie
- Amos 1:5 Rules
- Amos 1:5 Lit. House of Eden
- Amos 2:7 Or trample on
- Amos 2:8 Or those punished by fines
- Amos 2:13 Or tottering under
- Amos 2:13 Or totters
- Amos 2:14 Or the place of refuge
- Amos 2:14 Lit. save his soul or life
- Amos 2:15 Or save
- Amos 2:16 Lit. strong of his heart among the mighty
- Amos 3:4 Lit. give his voice
- Amos 3:5 Or bait or lure
- Amos 3:6 ram’s horn
- Amos 3:9 So with MT; LXX Assyria
- Amos 3:9 Or oppression
- Amos 3:10 Or devastation
- Amos 3:12 Or snatches
- Amos 3:12 Heb. uncertain, possibly on the cover
- Amos 3:15 Lit. strike
- Amos 4:1 Lit. their masters or lords
- Amos 4:3 Or cast them
- Amos 4:4 Or years, Deut. 14:28
- Amos 4:6 Hunger
- Amos 4:13 Or spirit
- Amos 4:13 Or His
- Amos 5:9 Or flashes forth destruction
- Amos 5:11 trample
- Amos 5:11 Or tribute
- Amos 5:11 desirable
- Amos 5:26 LXX, Vg. tabernacle of Moloch
- Amos 5:26 A pagan deity
- Amos 6:10 Lit. his loved one or uncle
- Amos 6:10 Lit. bones
- Amos 6:13 Lit. Nothing
- Amos 6:13 Lit. Horns, a symbol of strength
- Amos 7:1 Lit. beginning of the sprouting of
- Amos 7:2 Or How shall Jacob stand
- Amos 7:4 to contend
- Amos 7:4 Lit. portion
- Amos 7:9 Places of pagan worship
- Amos 7:9 Or holy places
- Amos 7:10 Or endure
- Amos 7:13 Or holy place
- Amos 7:13 Lit. house
- Amos 7:15 Lit. from behind
- Amos 7:16 Lit. drip
- Amos 8:4 Or trample on, Amos 2:7
- Amos 8:5 Lit. open
- Amos 8:8 The Nile; some Heb. mss., LXX, Tg., Syr., Vg. River (cf. 9:5); MT the light
- Amos 8:9 Lit. a day of light
- Amos 8:14 Or Ashima, a Syrian goddess
- Amos 9:1 Capitals of the pillars
- Amos 9:2 Or Sheol
- Amos 9:5 The Nile
- Amos 9:6 Or stairs
- Amos 9:7 Lit. sons of the Ethiopians
- Amos 9:7 Crete
- Amos 9:9 shake
- Amos 9:9 Lit. pebble
- Amos 9:11 Lit. booth; a figure of a deposed dynasty
- Amos 9:11 Lit. wall up its breaches
- Amos 9:12 LXX mankind
Amos 1-9
New King James Version
Judgments on Israel’s Neighbors
1 The words of Amos, who was among the (A)sheepbreeders of (B)Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of (C)Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of (D)Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the (E)earthquake.
2 And he said:
“The Lord (F)roars from Zion,
And utters His voice from Jerusalem;
The pastures of the shepherds mourn,
And the top of (G)Carmel withers.”
Judgment on the Nations
3 Thus says the Lord:
“For three transgressions of (H)Damascus, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because they have (I)threshed Gilead with implements of iron.
4 (J)But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael,
Which shall devour the palaces of (K)Ben-Hadad.
5 I will also break the gate (L)bar of Damascus,
And cut off the inhabitant from the Valley of Aven,
And the one who [a]holds the scepter from [b]Beth Eden.
The people of Syria shall go captive to Kir,”
Says the Lord.
6 Thus says the Lord:
“For three transgressions of (M)Gaza, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because they took captive the whole captivity
To deliver them up to Edom.
7 (N)But I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza,
Which shall devour its palaces.
8 I will cut off the inhabitant (O)from Ashdod,
And the one who holds the scepter from Ashkelon;
I will (P)turn My hand against Ekron,
And (Q)the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,”
Says the Lord God.
9 Thus says the Lord:
“For three transgressions of (R)Tyre, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom,
And did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.
10 But I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre,
Which shall devour its palaces.”
11 Thus says the Lord:
“For three transgressions of (S)Edom, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because he pursued his (T)brother with the sword,
And cast off all pity;
His anger tore perpetually,
And he kept his wrath forever.
12 But (U)I will send a fire upon Teman,
Which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.”
13 Thus says the Lord:
“For three transgressions of (V)the people of Ammon, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because they ripped open the women with child in Gilead,
That they might enlarge their territory.
14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of (W)Rabbah,
And it shall devour its palaces,
(X)Amid shouting in the day of battle,
And a tempest in the day of the whirlwind.
15 (Y)Their king shall go into captivity,
He and his princes together,”
Says the Lord.
Judgment on Israel
2 Thus says the Lord:
(Z)“For three transgressions of Moab, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because he (AA)burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime.
2 But I will send a fire upon Moab,
And it shall devour the palaces of (AB)Kerioth;
Moab shall die with tumult,
With shouting and trumpet sound.
3 And I will cut off (AC)the judge from its midst,
And slay all its princes with him,”
Says the Lord.
Judgment on Judah
4 Thus says the Lord:
“For three transgressions of (AD)Judah, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
(AE)Because they have despised the law of the Lord,
And have not kept His commandments.
(AF)Their lies lead them astray,
Lies (AG)which their fathers followed.
5 (AH)But I will send a fire upon Judah,
And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.”
Judgment on Israel
6 Thus says the Lord:
“For three transgressions of (AI)Israel, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because (AJ)they sell the righteous for silver,
And the (AK)poor for a pair of sandals.
7 They [c]pant after the dust of the earth which is on the head of the poor,
And (AL)pervert the way of the humble.
(AM)A man and his father go in to the same girl,
(AN)To defile My holy name.
8 They lie down (AO)by every altar on clothes (AP)taken in pledge,
And drink the wine of [d]the condemned in the house of their god.
9 “Yet it was I who destroyed the (AQ)Amorite before them,
Whose height was like the (AR)height of the cedars,
And he was as strong as the oaks;
Yet I (AS)destroyed his fruit above
And his roots beneath.
10 Also it was (AT)I who brought you up from the land of Egypt,
And (AU)led you forty years through the wilderness,
To possess the land of the Amorite.
11 I raised up some of your sons as (AV)prophets,
And some of your young men as (AW)Nazirites.
Is it not so, O you children of Israel?”
Says the Lord.
12 “But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink,
And commanded the prophets (AX)saying,
‘Do not prophesy!’
13 “Behold,(AY) I am [e]weighed down by you,
As a cart full of sheaves [f]is weighed down.
14 (AZ)Therefore [g]flight shall perish from the swift,
The strong shall not strengthen his power,
(BA)Nor shall the mighty [h]deliver himself;
15 He shall not stand who handles the bow,
The swift of foot shall not [i]escape,
Nor shall he who rides a horse deliver himself.
16 The most [j]courageous men of might
Shall flee naked in that day,”
Says the Lord.
Authority of the Prophet’s Message
3 Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying:
2 “You(BB) only have I known of all the families of the earth;
(BC)Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”
3 Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?
4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey?
Will a young lion [k]cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing?
5 Will a bird fall into a snare on the earth, where there is no [l]trap for it?
Will a snare spring up from the earth, if it has caught nothing at all?
6 If a [m]trumpet is blown in a city, will not the people be afraid?
(BD)If there is calamity in a city, will not the Lord have done it?
7 Surely the Lord God does nothing,
Unless (BE)He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.
8 A lion has roared!
Who will not fear?
The Lord God has spoken!
(BF)Who can but prophesy?
Punishment of Israel’s Sins
9 “Proclaim in the palaces at [n]Ashdod,
And in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say:
‘Assemble on the mountains of Samaria;
See great tumults in her midst,
And the [o]oppressed within her.
10 For they (BG)do not know to do right,’
Says the Lord,
‘Who store up violence and [p]robbery in their palaces.’ ”
11 Therefore thus says the Lord God:
“An adversary shall be all around the land;
He shall sap your strength from you,
And your palaces shall be plundered.”
12 Thus says the Lord:
“As a shepherd [q]takes from the mouth of a lion
Two legs or a piece of an ear,
So shall the children of Israel be taken out
Who dwell in Samaria—
In the corner of a bed and [r]on the edge of a couch!
13 Hear and testify against the house of Jacob,”
Says the Lord God, the God of hosts,
14 “That in the day I punish Israel for their transgressions,
I will also visit destruction on the altars of (BH)Bethel;
And the horns of the altar shall be cut off
And fall to the ground.
15 I will [s]destroy (BI)the winter house along with (BJ)the summer house;
The (BK)houses of ivory shall perish,
And the great houses shall have an end,”
Says the Lord.
God’s Punishments Have Not Reformed Israel
4 Hear this word, you (BL)cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria,
Who oppress the (BM)poor,
Who crush the needy,
Who say to [t]your husbands, “Bring wine, let us (BN)drink!”
2 (BO)The Lord God has sworn by His holiness:
“Behold, the days shall come upon you
When He will take you away (BP)with fishhooks,
And your posterity with fishhooks.
3 (BQ)You will go out through broken walls,
Each one straight ahead of her,
And you will [u]be cast into Harmon,”
Says the Lord.
4 “Come(BR) to Bethel and transgress,
At (BS)Gilgal multiply transgression;
(BT)Bring your sacrifices every morning,
(BU)Your tithes every three [v]days.
5 (BV)Offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven,
Proclaim and announce (BW)the freewill offerings;
For this you love,
You children of Israel!”
Says the Lord God.
Israel Did Not Accept Correction
6 “Also I gave you [w]cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
And lack of bread in all your places;
(BX)Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.
7 “I also withheld rain from you,
When there were still three months to the harvest.
I made it rain on one city,
I withheld rain from another city.
One part was rained upon,
And where it did not rain the part withered.
8 So two or three cities wandered to another city to drink water,
But they were not satisfied;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.
9 “I(BY) blasted you with blight and mildew.
When your gardens increased,
Your vineyards,
Your fig trees,
And your olive trees,
(BZ)The locust devoured them;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.
10 “I sent among you a plague (CA)after the manner of Egypt;
Your young men I killed with a sword,
Along with your captive horses;
I made the stench of your camps come up into your nostrils;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.
11 “I overthrew some of you,
As God overthrew (CB)Sodom and Gomorrah,
And you were like a firebrand plucked from the burning;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.
12 “Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel;
Because I will do this to you,
(CC)Prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”
13 For behold,
He who forms mountains,
And creates the [x]wind,
(CD)Who declares to man what [y]his thought is,
And makes the morning darkness,
(CE)Who treads the high places of the earth—
(CF)The Lord God of hosts is His name.
A Lament for Israel
5 Hear this word which I (CG)take up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel:
2 The virgin of Israel has fallen;
She will rise no more.
She lies forsaken on her land;
There is no one to raise her up.
3 For thus says the Lord God:
“The city that goes out by a thousand
Shall have a hundred left,
And that which goes out by a hundred
Shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”
A Call to Repentance
4 For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:
(CH)“Seek Me (CI)and live;
5 But do not seek (CJ)Bethel,
Nor enter Gilgal,
Nor pass over to (CK)Beersheba;
For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,
And (CL)Bethel shall come to nothing.
6 (CM)Seek the Lord and live,
Lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
And devour it,
With no one to quench it in Bethel—
7 You who (CN)turn justice to wormwood,
And lay righteousness to rest in the earth!”
8 He made the (CO)Pleiades and Orion;
He turns the shadow of death into morning
(CP)And makes the day dark as night;
He (CQ)calls for the waters of the sea
And pours them out on the face of the earth;
(CR)The Lord is His name.
9 He [z]rains ruin upon the strong,
So that fury comes upon the fortress.
10 (CS)They hate the one who rebukes in the gate,
And they (CT)abhor the one who speaks uprightly.
11 (CU)Therefore, because you [aa]tread down the poor
And take grain [ab]taxes from him,
Though (CV)you have built houses of hewn stone,
Yet you shall not dwell in them;
You have planted [ac]pleasant vineyards,
But you shall not drink wine from them.
12 For I (CW)know your manifold transgressions
And your mighty sins:
(CX)Afflicting the just and taking bribes;
(CY)Diverting the poor from justice at the gate.
13 Therefore (CZ)the prudent keep silent at that time,
For it is an evil time.
14 Seek good and not evil,
That you may live;
So the Lord God of hosts will be with you,
(DA)As you have spoken.
15 (DB)Hate evil, love good;
Establish justice in the gate.
(DC)It may be that the Lord God of hosts
Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
The Day of the Lord
16 Therefore the Lord God of hosts, the Lord, says this:
“There shall be wailing in all streets,
And they shall say in all the highways,
‘Alas! Alas!’
They shall call the farmer to mourning,
(DD)And skillful lamenters to wailing.
17 In all vineyards there shall be wailing,
For (DE)I will pass through you,”
Says the Lord.
18 (DF)Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord!
For what good is (DG)the day of the Lord to you?
It will be darkness, and not light.
19 It will be (DH)as though a man fled from a lion,
And a bear met him!
Or as though he went into the house,
Leaned his hand on the wall,
And a serpent bit him!
20 Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light?
Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it?
21 “I(DI) hate, I despise your feast days,
And (DJ)I do not savor your sacred assemblies.
22 (DK)Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings,
I will not accept them,
Nor will I regard your fattened peace offerings.
23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs,
For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.
24 (DL)But let justice run down like water,
And righteousness like a mighty stream.
25 “Did(DM) you offer Me sacrifices and offerings
In the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
26 You also carried [ad]Sikkuth[ae] (DN)your king
And Chiun, your idols,
The star of your gods,
Which you made for yourselves.
27 Therefore I will send you into captivity (DO)beyond Damascus,”
Says the Lord, (DP)whose name is the God of hosts.
Warnings to Zion and Samaria
6 Woe (DQ)to you who are at (DR)ease in Zion,
And (DS)trust in Mount Samaria,
Notable persons in the (DT)chief nation,
To whom the house of Israel comes!
2 (DU)Go over to (DV)Calneh and see;
And from there go to (DW)Hamath the great;
Then go down to Gath of the Philistines.
(DX)Are you better than these kingdoms?
Or is their territory greater than your territory?
3 Woe to you who (DY)put far off the day of (DZ)doom,
(EA)Who cause (EB)the seat of violence to come near;
4 Who lie on beds of ivory,
Stretch out on your couches,
Eat lambs from the flock
And calves from the midst of the stall;
5 (EC)Who sing idly to the sound of stringed instruments,
And invent for yourselves (ED)musical instruments (EE)like David;
6 Who (EF)drink wine from bowls,
And anoint yourselves with the best ointments,
(EG)But are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
7 Therefore they shall now go (EH)captive as the first of the captives,
And those who recline at banquets shall be removed.
8 (EI)The Lord God has sworn by Himself,
The Lord God of hosts says:
“I abhor (EJ)the pride of Jacob,
And hate his palaces;
Therefore I will deliver up the city
And all that is in it.”
9 Then it shall come to pass, that if ten men remain in one house, they shall die. 10 And when [af]a relative of the dead, with one who will burn the bodies, picks up the [ag]bodies to take them out of the house, he will say to one inside the house, “Are there any more with you?”
Then someone will say, “None.”
And he will say, (EK)“Hold your tongue! (EL)For we dare not mention the name of the Lord.”
11 For behold, (EM)the Lord gives a command:
(EN)He will break the great house into bits,
And the little house into pieces.
12 Do horses run on rocks?
Does one plow there with oxen?
Yet (EO)you have turned justice into gall,
And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,
13 You who rejoice over [ah]Lo Debar,
Who say, “Have we not taken [ai]Karnaim for ourselves
By our own strength?”
14 “But, behold, (EP)I will raise up a nation against you,
O house of Israel,”
Says the Lord God of hosts;
“And they will afflict you from the (EQ)entrance of Hamath
To the Valley of the Arabah.”
Vision of the Locusts
7 Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, He formed locust swarms at the [aj]beginning of the late crop; indeed it was the late crop after the king’s mowings. 2 And so it was, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said:
“O Lord God, forgive, I pray!
(ER)Oh,[ak] that Jacob may stand,
For he is small!”
3 So (ES)the Lord relented concerning this.
“It shall not be,” said the Lord.
Vision of the Fire
4 Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, the Lord God called [al]for conflict by fire, and it consumed the great deep and devoured the [am]territory. 5 Then I said:
“O Lord God, cease, I pray!
(ET)Oh, that Jacob may stand,
For he is small!”
6 So the Lord relented concerning this.
“This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.
Vision of the Plumb Line
7 Thus He showed me: Behold, the Lord stood on a wall made with a plumb line, with a plumb line in His hand. 8 And the Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?”
And I said, “A plumb line.”
Then the Lord said:
“Behold, (EU)I am setting a plumb line
In the midst of My people Israel;
(EV)I will not pass by them anymore.
9 (EW)The [an]high places of Isaac shall be desolate,
And the [ao]sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste.
(EX)I will rise with the sword against the house of Jeroboam.”
Amaziah’s Complaint
10 Then Amaziah the (EY)priest of (EZ)Bethel sent to (FA)Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to [ap]bear all his words. 11 For thus Amos has said:
‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword,
And Israel shall surely be led away (FB)captive
From their own land.’ ”
12 Then Amaziah said to Amos:
“Go, you seer!
Flee to the land of Judah.
There eat bread,
And there prophesy.
13 But (FC)never again prophesy at Bethel,
(FD)For it is the king’s [aq]sanctuary,
And it is the royal [ar]residence.”
14 Then Amos answered, and said to Amaziah:
“I was no prophet,
Nor was I (FE)a son of a prophet,
But I was a (FF)sheepbreeder
And a tender of sycamore fruit.
15 Then the Lord took me [as]as I followed the flock,
And the Lord said to me,
‘Go, (FG)prophesy to My people Israel.’
16 Now therefore, hear the word of the Lord:
You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel,
And (FH)do not [at]spout against the house of Isaac.’
17 “Therefore(FI) thus says the Lord:
(FJ)‘Your wife shall be a harlot in the city;
Your sons and daughters shall fall by the sword;
Your land shall be divided by survey line;
You shall die in a (FK)defiled land;
And Israel shall surely be led away captive
From his own land.’ ”
Vision of the Summer Fruit
8 Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit. 2 And He said, “Amos, what do you see?”
So I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”
Then the Lord said to me:
(FL)“The end has come upon My people Israel;
(FM)I will not pass by them anymore.
3 And (FN)the songs of the temple
Shall be wailing in that day,”
Says the Lord God—
“Many dead bodies everywhere,
(FO)They shall be thrown out in silence.”
4 Hear this, you who [au]swallow up the needy,
And make the poor of the land fail,
5 Saying:
“When will the New Moon be past,
That we may sell grain?
And (FP)the Sabbath,
That we may [av]trade wheat?
(FQ)Making the ephah small and the shekel large,
Falsifying the scales by (FR)deceit,
6 That we may buy the poor for (FS)silver,
And the needy for a pair of sandals—
Even sell the bad wheat?”
7 The Lord has sworn by (FT)the pride of Jacob:
“Surely (FU)I will never forget any of their works.
8 (FV)Shall the land not tremble for this,
And everyone mourn who dwells in it?
All of it shall swell like [aw]the River,
Heave and subside
(FW)Like the River of Egypt.
9 “And it shall come to pass in that day,” says the Lord God,
(FX)“That I will make the sun go down at noon,
And I will darken the earth in [ax]broad daylight;
10 I will turn your feasts into (FY)mourning,
(FZ)And all your songs into lamentation;
(GA)I will bring sackcloth on every waist,
And baldness on every head;
I will make it like mourning for an only son,
And its end like a bitter day.
11 “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God,
“That I will send a famine on the land,
Not a famine of bread,
Nor a thirst for water,
But (GB)of hearing the words of the Lord.
12 They shall wander from sea to sea,
And from north to east;
They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord,
But shall (GC)not find it.
13 “In that day the fair virgins
And strong young men
Shall faint from thirst.
14 Those who (GD)swear by (GE)the [ay]sin of Samaria,
Who say,
‘As your god lives, O Dan!’
And, ‘As the way of (GF)Beersheba lives!’
They shall fall and never rise again.”
The Destruction of Israel
9 I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and He said:
“Strike the [az]doorposts, that the thresholds may shake,
And (GG)break them on the heads of them all.
I will slay the last of them with the sword.
(GH)He who flees from them shall not get away,
And he who escapes from them shall not be delivered.
2 “Though(GI) they dig into [ba]hell,
From there My hand shall take them;
(GJ)Though they climb up to heaven,
From there I will bring them down;
3 And though they (GK)hide themselves on top of Carmel,
From there I will search and take them;
Though they hide from My sight at the bottom of the sea,
From there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them;
4 Though they go into captivity before their enemies,
From there (GL)I will command the sword,
And it shall slay them.
(GM)I will set My eyes on them for harm and not for good.”
5 The Lord God of hosts,
He who touches the earth and it (GN)melts,
(GO)And all who dwell there mourn;
All of it shall swell like [bb]the River,
And subside like the River of Egypt.
6 He who builds His (GP)layers[bc] in the sky,
And has founded His strata in the earth;
Who (GQ)calls for the waters of the sea,
And pours them out on the face of the earth—
(GR)The Lord is His name.
7 “Are you not like the [bd]people of Ethiopia to Me,
O children of Israel?” says the Lord.
“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
The (GS)Philistines from (GT)Caphtor,[be]
And the Syrians from (GU)Kir?
8 “Behold, (GV)the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom,
And I (GW)will destroy it from the face of the earth;
Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
Says the Lord.
9 “For surely I will command,
And will [bf]sift the house of Israel among all nations,
As grain is sifted in a sieve;
(GX)Yet not the smallest [bg]grain shall fall to the ground.
10 All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword,
(GY)Who say, ‘The calamity shall not overtake nor confront us.’
Israel Will Be Restored
11 “On(GZ) that day I will raise up
The [bh]tabernacle of David, which has fallen down,
And [bi]repair its damages;
I will raise up its ruins,
And rebuild it as in the days of old;
12 (HA)That they may possess the remnant of (HB)Edom,[bj]
And all the Gentiles who are called by My name,”
Says the Lord who does this thing.
13 “Behold, (HC)the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“When the plowman shall overtake the reaper,
And the treader of grapes him who sows seed;
(HD)The mountains shall drip with sweet wine,
And all the hills shall flow with it.
14 (HE)I will bring back the captives of My people Israel;
(HF)They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them;
They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them;
They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them.
15 I will plant them in their land,
(HG)And no longer shall they be pulled up
From the land I have given them,”
Says the Lord your God.
Notas al pie
- Amos 1:5 Rules
- Amos 1:5 Lit. House of Eden
- Amos 2:7 Or trample on
- Amos 2:8 Or those punished by fines
- Amos 2:13 Or tottering under
- Amos 2:13 Or totters
- Amos 2:14 Or the place of refuge
- Amos 2:14 Lit. save his soul or life
- Amos 2:15 Or save
- Amos 2:16 Lit. strong of his heart among the mighty
- Amos 3:4 Lit. give his voice
- Amos 3:5 Or bait or lure
- Amos 3:6 ram’s horn
- Amos 3:9 So with MT; LXX Assyria
- Amos 3:9 Or oppression
- Amos 3:10 Or devastation
- Amos 3:12 Or snatches
- Amos 3:12 Heb. uncertain, possibly on the cover
- Amos 3:15 Lit. strike
- Amos 4:1 Lit. their masters or lords
- Amos 4:3 Or cast them
- Amos 4:4 Or years, Deut. 14:28
- Amos 4:6 Hunger
- Amos 4:13 Or spirit
- Amos 4:13 Or His
- Amos 5:9 Or flashes forth destruction
- Amos 5:11 trample
- Amos 5:11 Or tribute
- Amos 5:11 desirable
- Amos 5:26 LXX, Vg. tabernacle of Moloch
- Amos 5:26 A pagan deity
- Amos 6:10 Lit. his loved one or uncle
- Amos 6:10 Lit. bones
- Amos 6:13 Lit. Nothing
- Amos 6:13 Lit. Horns, a symbol of strength
- Amos 7:1 Lit. beginning of the sprouting of
- Amos 7:2 Or How shall Jacob stand
- Amos 7:4 to contend
- Amos 7:4 Lit. portion
- Amos 7:9 Places of pagan worship
- Amos 7:9 Or holy places
- Amos 7:10 Or endure
- Amos 7:13 Or holy place
- Amos 7:13 Lit. house
- Amos 7:15 Lit. from behind
- Amos 7:16 Lit. drip
- Amos 8:4 Or trample on, Amos 2:7
- Amos 8:5 Lit. open
- Amos 8:8 The Nile; some Heb. mss., LXX, Tg., Syr., Vg. River (cf. 9:5); MT the light
- Amos 8:9 Lit. a day of light
- Amos 8:14 Or Ashima, a Syrian goddess
- Amos 9:1 Capitals of the pillars
- Amos 9:2 Or Sheol
- Amos 9:5 The Nile
- Amos 9:6 Or stairs
- Amos 9:7 Lit. sons of the Ethiopians
- Amos 9:7 Crete
- Amos 9:9 shake
- Amos 9:9 Lit. pebble
- Amos 9:11 Lit. booth; a figure of a deposed dynasty
- Amos 9:11 Lit. wall up its breaches
- Amos 9:12 LXX mankind
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