Thematic Bible
Amos 1:1 (show verse)
These are the sermons that were showed unto Amos, which was one of the shepherds at Tekoa, upon Israel, in the time of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the time of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
Amos 1:2 (show verse)
And he said, "The LORD shall roar out of Zion, and show his voice from Jerusalem: so that the pastures of the shepherds shall be in a miserable case, and the top of Carmel dried up.
Amos 1:3 (show verse)
"Thus sayeth the LORD, 'For three and four wickednesses of Damascus, I will not spare her: because they have threshed Gilead with iron stales.
Amos 1:4 (show verse)
But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, the same shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.
Amos 1:5 (show verse)
Thus will I break the bars of Damascus, and root out the inhabiter from the field of Aven, and him that holdeth the scepter, out of the pleasant house: so that the people shall be driven out of fair Syria,' sayeth the LORD.
Amos 1:6 (show verse)
Thus sayeth the LORD, 'For three and four wickednesses of Gaza, I will not spare her: because they make the prisoners yet more captive, and have driven them into the land of Edom.
Amos 1:7 (show verse)
Therefore will I send a fire in to the walls of Gaza, which shall devour her houses.
Amos 1:8 (show verse)
I will root out them that dwell at Ashdod, and him that holdeth the scepter of Ashkelon, and stretch out mine hand over Ekron, that the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,' sayeth the LORD.
Amos 1:9 (show verse)
Thus sayeth the LORD, 'For three and four wickednesses of the city of Tyre, I will not spare her: because they have increased the captivity of the Edomites, and have not remembered the brotherly covenant.
Amos 1:10 (show verse)
Therefore will I send a fire into the walls of Tyre, that shall consume her palaces.'
Amos 1:11 (show verse)
"Thus sayeth the LORD, 'For three and four wickednesses of Edom, I will not spare him, because he persecuted his brother with the sword, destroyed his mother's womb, bare hatred very long, and so kept indignation always by him.
Amos 1:12 (show verse)
Therefore will I send a fire into Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.'
Amos 1:13 (show verse)
Thus sayeth the LORD, 'For three and four wickednesses of the children of Ammon, I will not spare them: because they ripped up the women great with child in Gilead, to make the borders of their lands the wider.
Amos 1:14 (show verse)
Therefore I will kindle a fire in the walls of Rabbah, that shall consume her palaces: with a great cry, in the day of battle, in tempest and in the day of storm.
Amos 1:15 (show verse)
So that their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together,' sayeth the LORD."