Aramaic Peshitta Bible Repository
Lamsa OT - Amos
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1 ¶ THE words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen 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. 2 And he said: The LORD will roar from Zion, and shout from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.""
3 ¶ Thus says 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; 4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Bar-hadad. 5 I will break also the bars of Damascus and cut off the inhabitants from the plain of Aon and him that holds the sceptre from the house of Eden; and the people of Aram shall go into captivity to Kir, says the LORD. 6 Thus says 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 population to deliver them up to Edom; 7 But I will send a fire on the walls of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof; 8 And I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod and him that holds the sceptre from Ashkelon, and 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 turn away the punishment thereof, because they delivered up the whole population to Edom and remembered not the brotherly covenant. 10 But I will send a fire on the walls of Tyre, which shall devour the palaces thereof. 11 Thus says 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 he kept his anger perpetually and he kept his wrath for ever; 12 But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah. 13 Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of the Ammonites, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment from them, because they have ripped up women with child in Gilead, that they might enlarge their border; 14 But I will kindle a fire in the streets of Rabbath, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind; 15 And Malcom shall go into captivity, he and his priests and his princes together, says the LORD.""
2:1 ¶ THUS says the LORD: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment from the people thereof, because they burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime; 2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth; and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet; 3 And I will cut off the judge from its midst, and will slay all its princes with him, says the LORD. 4 Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Judah. and for four, I will not turn away the punishment from the people thereof because they have rejected the law of the LORD and have not kept his commandments, and the vain idols, after which their fathers have walked, have caused them to go astray. 5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. 6 Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof, because they sold a righteous man for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes, with which they tread the dust of the earth. 7 And they oppress the poor, and turn away justice from the fatherless; and a man and his father go in to the same woman, to profane my holy name. 8 And they laid themselves down in filthy clothes on the sides of every altar, and they drank old wine in the houses of their gods.""
9 ¶ Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of a cedar, and he was strong as an oak; yet I destroyed his fruit from above and his roots from beneath. 10 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, and brought you here to possess the land of the Amorite. 11 And I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O you children of Israel? says the LORD. 12 But you gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets that they should not prophesy. 13 Behold, I am weary under your burdens, as a cart creaks that is full of sheaves. 14 Therefore the power to run shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not possess his strength, neither shall the mighty deliver himself. 15 And he that handles the bow shall not stand; and he who is a fast runner shall not deliver himself; neither shall he who rides the horse deliver himself. 16 And he who is courageous like a mighty man shall flee away naked in that day, says the LORD.""
3:1 ¶ 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 only have I known of all the peoples and of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. 3 Will two men go on a journey together unless they have made an appointment? 4 Does a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Or does a lion cry out of his den if he has taken no prey? 5 Will a bird fall into a snare upon the earth without a hunter? Or can a trap spring up from the ground and catch the prey without being set? 6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people be not afraid? Or shall there be misfortune in a city and the LORD has not done it? 7 Surely the LORD God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets. 8 The lion has roared, who will not fear? The LORD God has spoken, who can but prophesy?""
9 ¶ Proclaim it in the palaces of Ashdod and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountain of Samaria, and see the great tumults in the midst thereof and the oppression which is in it. 10 For they do not know how to reprove, says the LORD, but they store up plunder and spoil in their palaces. 11 Therefore thus says the LORD: A calamity shall surround the land; and its strength shall be brought down, and its palaces shall be spoiled. 12 Thus says the LORD: As the shepherd takes out of the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so shall the children of Israel be delivered who dwell in Samaria, along with the people who dwell in Damascus, by a staff that strikes suddenly. 13 Hear, and testify in the house of Jacob, says the LORD God, the God of hosts of Israel, 14 That in the day that I punish the transgressions of Israel I will also punish the altars of Beth-el; and the horns of the altars shall be cut off and fall to the ground. 15 And I will destroy the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and great houses shall be demolished, says the LORD.""
4:1 ¶ HEAR this word, O vicious men of Bashan, who are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink: 2 The LORD God has sworn by his holiness that, behold, the days are coming upon you when they shall take you away with weapons and the last of you shall be devoured. 3 And every woman shall run to the breach which is before her; and they shall be cast away to the mountain of Armenia, says the LORD. 4 Come to Beth-el and transgress; go to Gilgal and multiply transgressions; and bring your sacrifices every morning and your tithes every third day, 5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leavened bread, and vow your vows and fulfill them; for thus you have loved to do, O children of Israel, says the LORD God.""
6 ¶ And I also have given you shortage of food in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places; yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD. 7 And I also have withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city; one part was rained upon, and the other part on which it did not rain withered. 8 So the inhabitants of two or three cities gathered into one city to drink water; but they were not satisfied; yet you returned not to me, says the LORD. 9 I have smitten you with blight and mildew, and with hail stones; and many of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees were eaten by the creeping locust; and yet you did not return to me, says the LORD. 10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt; I slew your young men with the sword, together with the spoil of your horses; and I made the stench of your camps to come up to your nostrils; yet you did not return to me, says the LORD. 11 I have overthrown you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you have become like a firebrand which is plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me, says the LORD. 12 Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel, at the end; and because I will do this to you, prepare, O Israel, that you might call to your God. 13 For lo, he who creates the wind and creates the mountains and declares to man what is his glory, who makes the morning darkness and walks upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, the God of hosts, is his name.""
5:1 ¶ HEAR this word which I take up concerning you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel: 2 The virgin of Israel is fallen, she shall no more rise; she is left lying on the ground, there is none to raise her up. 3 For thus says the LORD God: The city out of which went forth a thousand men, there shall be left in it a hundred men; and that out of which went forth a hundred men, there shall be left in it ten men to the house of Israel.""
4 ¶ For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel: Seek me and you shall live; 5 But do not seek Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity and Beth-el shall come to nought. 6 Seek the LORD and you shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph and devour Beth-el, and there will be none to quench it. 7 You who turn justice into bitterness, and lower righteousness to the ground, 8 They have forsaken him who made Pleiades and Orion, and who turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark into night; who calls the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth; the LORD is his name; 9 Who makes the weak to rule over the mighty, and exalts the meek over the proud. 10 They hate the poor at the gates, and they abhor him who speaks uprightly. 11 Therefore because you have beaten on the head of the poor and have taken from him the choicest gifts; the houses of hewn stone which you have built, you shall not dwell in; and from the pleasant vineyards which you have planted, you shall not drink wine. 12 For I know your transgressions are many and your sins are great; you oppress the just, you take a bribe, and you turn aside the cause of the poor in the gate from their right. 13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time. 14 Seek good and not evil that you may live; and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as you have spoken. 15 Hate the evil and love the good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.""
16 ¶ Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of hosts: In all streets there shall be wailing; and in all broad places they shall say, Alas! alas! and they shall call the farmers to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing. 17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing; for I will pass through the midst of you, says the LORD. 18 Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? The day of the LORD? For it is a day of darkness and not light. 19 As when a man fled from a lion and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall and a serpent bit him. 20 Such is the day of the LORD; it is darkness and not light; yea, it is a day of thick darkness and no brightness is in it.""
21 ¶ I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell the savor of your solemn assemblies. 22 Though you offer me your burnt offerings and your meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. 23 Take away from me the noise of your songs; for I will not hear the melody of your harps. 24 But let justice run down like waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. 25 Did you offer to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel? 26 But you carried the tabernacle of Malcom and Chiun your idol, the star which you made a god to yourselves. 27 Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, says the LORD whose name is the God of hosts.""
6:1 ¶ WOE to them who despise Zion and trust in the mountain of Samaria, who are chosen by the chiefs of the nations that have captivated the house of Israel! 2 Pass over to Caliah and see; and from thence go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms? Or is their territory greater than your territory? 3 O you who wait for the evil day, and cause the sabbath of violence to come near; 4 Who lie upon beds of ivory, and give themselves to pleasures upon their couches, and eat the fatlings from the flock and calves from the midst of the herd; 5 Who chant to the sound of the harp, and consider themselves skilled in the musical instruments like David; 6 Who drink pure wine, and anoint themselves with the finest perfumes; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. 7 Therefore now they shall be carried captive with the first who go captive, and the joy shall be taken away from their rulers.""
8 ¶ The LORD God has sworn by himself, says the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob and hate his palaces; therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it. 9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house that they shall die. 10 And a man’s uncle or one who is near to him shall carry the dead body out of the house; and he shall say to him who is in the house, Is there any one else in the house with you? And he shall say, There is no one, because they have perished; for they did not mention the name of the LORD. 11 For, behold, the LORD will go forth and he will smite the great house and cause it to quiver, and the little house will he make desolate. 12 Do horses run upon rocks? Or does one plough with horses? For you have turned justice into bitterness, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood; 13 You who rejoice over nothing, who say, Have we not taken a city by our own strength? 14 Therefore, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, says the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall drive you away from the entrance of Hamath to the valley of Arabah.""
7:1 ¶ THUS has the LORD God showed me: behold, a plague of locusts coming up in the beginning of springing up of the latter growth; and, 1o, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings. 2 And it came to pass when they had finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, O LORD God, forgive. Who shall raise up Jacob? For he is small in numbers. 3 Then the LORD averted this calamity: it shall not be. 4 Thus has the LORD God showed me: and, behold, the LORD God called the people to judge them by fire, and it devoured the great deep and did eat up a part. 5 Then I said, O LORD God, forgive. Who shall raise up Jacob? For he is small in numbers. 6 The LORD averted this calamity; this also shall not be. 7 Thus he showed me: and, behold, the LORD was standing upon a wall made of adamant, and a plumbline was in his hand. 8 And the LORD said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the LORD, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more: 9 And the absurd shrines of Israel shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.""
10 ¶ Then Amaziah the priest of Beth-el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel, and the land cannot bear all his words. 11 For thus Amos is saying: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be carried away captive out of their own land. 12 Also Amaziah said to Amos, O you seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there; 13 But prophesy, not again any more at Beth-el; for it is the king’s sanctuary and it is the house of the kingdom. 14 Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, I am not a prophet, neither a prophet’s son; but I was a shepherd and a gatherer of wild figs; 15 And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said to me, Go, prophesy against my people Israel. 16 Now therefore hear the word of the LORD: You say, Do not prophesy against the house of Israel and do not teach against the house of Isaac. 17 Therefore thus says the LORD: Your wife shall play the harlot in your own city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a polluted land; and Israel shall surely be carried away captive from his land.""
8:1 ¶ THUS has the LORD God showed me: and behold, a sign of the end. 2 And the LORD said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A sign of the end. Then the LORD said to me, The end is come upon my people Israel; I will not again cause it to pass by them any more. 3 And the songs of the temple shall be howling in that day, says the LORD God; there shall be many dead bodies in every place; and they shall be cast away to destruction.""
4 ¶ Hear this, O you who wrong the poor, and cause the needy of the land to come to an end, 5 Saying, When will the month be over, that we may sell grain? When will the sabbath be over that we may open storehouses and make our measures small and enlarge weights and make deceitful balances? 6 That we may sell to the poor for silver, and pay the needy with the refuse of the wheat, and sell the refuse which is left on the floor of the storehouses. 7 The LORD, the Mighty One of Jacob, has sworn, Surely, I will never forget any of their works. 8 Shall not the land tremble for these things, and every one mourn who dwells in it? The end shall come up like a flooded river; and it shall cast things away, and then recede like the river of Egypt. 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daylight. 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; and I will put sackcloth upon all your loins and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end of it as a bitter day.""
11 ¶ Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will send a famine in the land; not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the LORD; 12 And they shall gather together from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it. 13 In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men shall faint for thirst. 14 They that swore by the idols of Samaria, saying, As your god lives, O Dan, and, as the cult of Beer-sheba lives, even they shall fall and never rise again.""
9:1 ¶ I SAW the LORD standing over the altar; and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the thresholds may shake; and let their treachery be upon the heads of all of them, and I will slay those who are left of them with the sword; he that flees of them shall not escape, and he that is spared of them shall not be delivered. 2 Though they go down into Sheol, thence shall my hand bring them up; though they climb to heaven, thence will I bring them down; 3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent and it shall bite them; 4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it shall slay them; and I will set my eyes upon them for evil and not for good; 5 Says the LORD God of hosts, who touches the earth and it quakes, and all who dwell in it mourn; and the end shall rise up like a river, and shall recede like the river of Egypt: 6 It is he who has built his stories in heaven, and has made his possessions in the earth; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth; the LORD of hosts is his name. 7 Behold, you are like the Ethiopians to me, O children of Israel! says the LORD. Behold, I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt and the Philistines from Capadocia and the Arameans from Kir. 8 Behold, the eyes of the LORD God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; but I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says the LORD. 9 For behold, I will command, and I will scatter the house of Israel among all nations as they sift wheat in a sieve, but not even the smallest grain of it shall fall upon the ground. 10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, The evil shall not touch us nor overtake us.""
11 ¶ In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins and I will build it as in the days of old, and as in the years of many generations. 12 For they shall possess the remnant of Edom, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the LORD who does these things. 13 Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when the threshing floor shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that sows seed; and the mountains shall drop sweetness, and all the hills shall rejoice. 14 And I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel, and they shall build the ruined cities and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards and drink the wine thereof; they shall also plant gardens and eat the fruit of them. 15 And I will plant them upon their own land, and they shall no more be uprooted from the land which I have given them, says the LORD your God."