So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, yea for four, I will not turn away from it; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.

But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.

So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Gaza, yea for four, I will not turn away from it; because they deported as exiles to deliver up a complete population to Edom.

But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour its palaces.

So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Tyre, yea for four, I will not turn away from it. Because they delivered up as exiles a complete population to Edom, and did not remember the brotherly covenant.

But I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre, which shall devour its palaces.

So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Edom, yea for four, I will not turn away from it. Because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pities, and his anger tore without end, and he kept his wrath forever.

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

So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of the sons of Ammon, yea for four, I will not turn away from it. Because they have ripped up the pregnant women of Gilead, to make their own border larger.

But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour its palaces with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind.

So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, yea for four, I will not turn away from it; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.

But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth. And Moab shall die with great noise, with shouting, with the sound of a trumpet.

So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, yea for four, I will not turn away from it; because they have despised the Laws of Jehovah, and have not kept His commandments. And their lies after which their fathers walked led them astray.

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

So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, yea for four, I will not turn away from it; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals;

You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

Will a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey for him? Will a young lion cry out of his den unless he has caught?

Will a bird fall into a trap on the ground, and there is no bait for it? Will a trap spring up from the ground, and nothing at all be caught?

For the Lord Jehovah will do nothing unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.

The lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord Jehovah has spoken; who will not prophesy?

For they do not know to do right, says Jehovah, those who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

for in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel on him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel. And the horns of the altar shall be cut off and shall fall to the ground.

Come to Bethel and transgress; to Gilgal and multiply transgressing at Gilgal. And bring your sacrifices for the morning, your tithes for three years;

and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving from that which is leavened, and cry out; call out the voluntary offerings! For so you love to do, O sons of Israel, says the Lord Jehovah.

For lo, He forms the mountains and creates the wind, and declares to man what his thought is. He who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth; Jehovah, the God of Hosts, is His name.

For thus says the Lord Jehovah: The city that went out by a thousand shall leave a hundred, and that which went out by a hundred shall have ten left in the house of Israel.

For so says Jehovah to the house of Israel: Seek Me, and you shall live.

But do not seek Bethel nor enter into Gilgal, and do not pass to Beer-sheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into exile, and Bethel shall come to nothing.

Seek Jehovah, and you shall live; lest He break out like a fire on the house of Joseph and devour it, and there be none to put it out in Bethel.

seek Him who created the Pleiades and Orion, and who turned the deep darkness into the morning and He darkened the day into night. Seek Him who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the face of the earth; Jehovah is His name;

For I know your many transgressions and your many sins. They afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate.

So the understanding ones shall keep silent in that time; for it is an evil time.

And there shall be wailing in all vineyards; for I will pass through you, says Jehovah.

Woe to those desiring the day of Jehovah! What is this for you? The day of Jehovah is darkness and not light;

Take the noise of your songs away from Me; for I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.

But you have carried the booth of your king and Kiyyun, your images, the star of your gods which you made for yourselves.

You who put the evil day far away, and cause the seat of violence to come near;

who chant with the mouth of the harp; they invent instruments of music for themselves, like David;

who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best of oils; nor do they grieve for the breaking of Joseph!

And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he who burns him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say to him left in the recesses of the house, Are any still with you? And he shall say, No. Then he shall say, Hush! For not one shall mention the name of Jehovah.

For, behold, Jehovah commands, and He will strike the great house into pieces, and the little house into cracks.

Shall horses run on the rock? Will one plow there with oxen? For you have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock;

And it happened when it had made an end of eating the tender plant of the land, then I said, O Lord Jehovah, forgive, I pray You. How can Jacob stand? For he is small.

Jehovah repented for this; It shall not be, says Jehovah.

The Lord Jehovah made me see this: And behold, the Lord Jehovah was calling to contend by fire. And it consumed the great deep, and it was devouring part of it.

Then I said, O Lord Jehovah, I pray You, cease. How can Jacob stand? For he is small.

Jehovah repented for this; This also shall not be, says the Lord Jehovah.

For so Amos says: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely go into exile out of his land.

And Amaziah said to Amos, O seer, go, flee for yourself into the land of Judah; and eat bread there, and prophesy there.

But do not prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king's temple, and it is the king's royal house.

that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals; and sell the chaff of the wheat?

Shall not the land tremble for this, and all who dwell in it mourn? And all of it shall rise up like the light. And it shall overflow and sink like the Nile of Egypt.

Behold, the days come, says the Lord Jehovah, that I will send a famine in the land; not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the Words of Jehovah.

And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the Word of Jehovah, and shall not find it.

In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men shall faint for thirst.

And if they go into captivity before their enemies, I will command the sword there, and it shall kill them; and I will set My eyes on them for evil, and not for good.

It is He who builds His staircase in the heavens, and He has founded the heavens on the earth; He who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the face of the earth; Jehovah is His name.

For lo, I will command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations, as one shakes with a sieve, yet not a grain shall fall to the earth.