json/Tanakh/Prophets/Amos/English/merged.json

{
    "title": "Amos",
    "language": "en",
    "versionTitle": "merged",
    "versionSource": "https://www.sefaria.org/Amos",
    "text": [
        [
            "The words of Amos, a sheep breeder from Tekoa, who prophesied concerning Israel in the reigns of Kings Uzziah of Judah and Jeroboam son of Joash of Israel, two years before the earthquake.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>the earthquake </b>See Zech. 14.5.</i> ",
            "He proclaimed:<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\"> \nG<small>OD</small>\n </span> roars from Zion,<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Shouts aloud from Jerusalem;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And the pastures of the shepherds shall languish,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And the summit of Carmel shall wither.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Thus said </span> G<small>OD</small>:<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For three transgressions of Damascus,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For four, I will not revoke the decree:</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>the decree </b>Of punishment. Heb. “it.”</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Because they threshed Gilead</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">With threshing boards of iron.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will send down fire</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>send down fire </b>Cf. Lam. 1.13.</i> upon the palace of Hazael,<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And it shall devour the fortresses of Ben-hadad.</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>Hazael…Ben-hadad </b>Two of Aram’s kings; cf. 2 Kings 13.22–25.</i> ",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will break the gate bars of Damascus,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And wipe out the inhabitants from the Vale of Aven</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And the sceptered ruler of Beth-eden;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And the people of Aram shall be exiled to Kir</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAllDouble\">—said </span> G<small>OD</small>.",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Thus said </span> G<small>OD</small>:<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For three transgressions of Gaza,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For four, I will not revoke the decree:</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>the decree </b>See note at v. 3.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Because they exiled</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">f</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>exiled </b>I.e., cooperated in the annexation of Israelite territory; cf. Jer. 13.19 with note.</i> an entire population,<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Which they delivered to Edom.</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">g</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>Edom </b>Emendation yields “Aram”; cf. Isa. 9.11.</i> ",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will send down fire upon the wall of Gaza,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And it shall devour its fortresses;</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And I will wipe out the inhabitants of Ashdod</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And the sceptered ruler of Ashkelon;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And I will turn My hand against Ekron,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And the Philistines shall perish with no remnant</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAllDouble\">—said the Sovereign </span> G<small>OD</small>.",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Thus said </span> G<small>OD</small>:<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For three transgressions of Tyre,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For four, I will not revoke the decree:</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">h</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>the decree </b>See note at v. 3.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Because they handed over</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">An entire population to Edom,</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">i</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>Edom </b>Emendation yields “Aram.”</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Ignoring the covenant of brotherhood.</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">j</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>covenant of brotherhood </b>I.e., the alliance between kings of similar social stature. Cf. 1 Kings 5.26; 9.12–13; and see note at 20.32.</i> ",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will send down fire upon the wall of Tyre,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And it shall devour its fortresses.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Thus said </span> G<small>OD</small>:<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For three transgressions of Edom,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For four, I will not revoke the decree:</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">k</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>the decree </b>See note at v. 3.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Because he pursued his brother</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">l</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>his brother </b>I.e., an army of the descendants of Israel; cf. Gen. 25.25–26; 35.10; 36.1.</i> with the sword<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And repressed all pity,</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">m</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>repressed all pity </b>Or “destroyed his womenfolk”; cf. Judg. 5.30. Change of vocalization yields “destroyed his wombs”; cf. v. 13.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Because his anger raged unceasing</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And his fury stormed</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">n</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>stormed </b>Cf. Akkadian <i>shamaru</i> and Jer. 3.5.</i> unchecked.",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will send down fire upon Teman,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And it shall devour the fortresses of Bozrah.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Thus said </span> G<small>OD</small>:<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For three transgressions of the Ammonites,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For four, I will not revoke the decree:</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">o</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>the decree </b>See note at v. 3.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">In order to enlarge their own territory.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will set fire to the wall of Rabbah,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And it shall devour its fortresses,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Amid shouting on a day of battle,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">On a day of violent tempest.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Their king and his officers shall go</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Into exile together</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAllDouble\">—said </span> G<small>OD</small>."
        ],
        [
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Thus said </span> G<small>OD</small>:<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For three transgressions of Moab,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For four, I will not revoke the decree:</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>the decree </b>See note at 1.3.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Because he burned the bones</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Of the king of Edom to lime.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will send down fire upon Moab,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And it shall devour the fortresses of Kerioth.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And Moab shall die in tumult,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Amid shouting and the blare of horns;</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will wipe out the ruler from within her</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And slay all her officials along with him</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAllDouble\">—said </span> G<small>OD</small>.",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Thus said </span> G<small>OD</small>:<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For three transgressions of Judah,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For four, I will not revoke the decree:</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>the decree </b>See note at 1.3.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Because they have spurned the Teaching of </span> G<small>OD</small> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And have not observed divine laws;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They are beguiled by the delusions</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">After which their ancestors walked.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will send down fire upon Judah,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And it shall devour the fortresses of Jerusalem.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Thus said </span> G<small>OD</small>:<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For three transgressions of Israel,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For four, I will not revoke the decree:</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>the decree </b>See note at 1.3.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Because they have sold for silver</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Those whose cause was just,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And the needy for a pair of sandals.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">[Ah,] you who trample the heads of the poor</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Into the dust of the ground,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And make the humble walk a twisted course!</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>who trample the heads of the poor / Into the dust of the ground, / And make the humble walk a twisted course! </b>Understanding <i>shoʼaphim</i> as equivalent to <i>shaphim</i>. Emendation yields: “Who crush on the ground / The heads of the poor, / And push off the road / The humble of the land”; cf. Job 24.4.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Father and son go to the same woman,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And thereby profane My holy name.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They recline by every altar</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">On garments taken in pledge,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And drink in the House of their God</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Wine bought with fines they imposed.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Yet I</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Destroyed the Amorite before them,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Whose stature was like the cedar’s</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And who was stout as the oak,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Destroying his boughs above</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And his trunk below!</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And I</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Brought you up from the land of Egypt</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And led you through the wilderness forty years,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">To possess the land of the Amorite!</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And I raised up prophets from among your sons</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And nazirites from among your young men.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Is that not so, O people of Israel?</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAllDouble\">—says </span> G<small>OD</small>.",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">But you made the nazirites drink wine</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And ordered the prophets not to prophesy.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\"><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Meaning of verse uncertain; alternatively: “I will slow your movements / As a threshing sledge (cf. Isa. 28.27–28) is slowed / When clogged by cut grain.”</i> </span>Ah, I will slow your movements<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">As a wagon is slowed</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">When it is full of cut grain.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Flight shall fail the swift,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The strong shall find no strength,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And the warrior shall not save his life.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The archer shall not hold his ground,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And the fleet-footed shall not escape,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Nor the horseman save his life.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Even the most stouthearted warrior</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Shall run away unarmed</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">f</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>unarmed </b>Lit. “naked.”</i> that day<br><span class=\"poetry indentAllDouble\">—declares </span> G<small>OD</small>."
        ],
        [
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Hear this word, O people of Israel,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">That </span> G<small>OD</small> has spoken concerning you,<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Concerning the whole family that I brought up from the land of Egypt:</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">You alone have I singled out</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Of all the families of the earth—</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">That is why I will call you to account</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For all your iniquities.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Can two walk together</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Without having met?</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Does a lion roar in the forest</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">When it has no prey?</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Does a great beast let out a cry from its den</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Without having made a capture?</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Does a bird drop on the ground—in a trap—</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">With no snare there?</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Does a trap spring up from the ground</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Unless it has caught something?</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">When a ram’s horn is sounded in a town,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Do the people not take alarm?</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Can misfortune come to a town</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">If </span> G<small>OD</small> has not caused it?",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Indeed, my Sovereign </span> G<small>OD</small> does nothing<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Without having revealed the purpose</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">To God’s servants the prophets.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">A lion has roared,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Who can but fear?</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">My Sovereign </span> G<small>OD</small> has spoken,<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Who can but prophesy?</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Proclaim in the fortresses of Ashdod</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>Ashdod </b>Septuagint reads “Assyria.”</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And in the fortresses of the land of Egypt!</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Say:</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Gather on the hill</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>hill </b>Heb. plural; but cf. 4.1; 6.1.</i> of Samaria<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And witness the great outrages within her</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And the oppression in her midst.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They are incapable of doing right</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAllDouble\">—declares </span> G<small>OD</small>;<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They store up lawlessness and rapine</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">In their fortresses.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Assuredly,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Thus said the Sovereign </span> G<small>OD</small>:<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">An enemy, all about the land!</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">He shall strip you of your splendor,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And your fortresses shall be plundered.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Thus said </span> G<small>OD</small>:<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">As a shepherd rescues from the lion’s jaws</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Two shank bones or the tip of an ear,</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>As a shepherd rescues … tip of an ear </b>Cf. Exod. 22.9, 12.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">So shall the Israelites escape</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Who dwell in Samaria—</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">With the leg</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>leg </b>Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i> of a bed or the head<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>head </b>Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i> of a couch.",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Hear [this], and warn the House of Jacob</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAllDouble\">—says the Sovereign </span> G<small>OD</small>, the God of Hosts—",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">That when I punish Israel for its transgressions,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will wreak judgment on the altar</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">f</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>altar </b>Heb. plural, but cf. “altar” in next line.</i> of Bethel,<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And the horns of the altar shall be cut off</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And shall fall to the ground.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will wreck the winter palace</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Together with the summer palace;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The ivory palaces shall be demolished,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And the great houses shall be destroyed</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAllDouble\">—declares </span> G<small>OD</small>."
        ],
        [
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Hear this word, you cows of Bashan</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">On the hill of Samaria—</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Who defraud the poor,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Who rob the needy;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Who say to your</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>your </b>Heb. “their.”</i> husbands,<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">“Bring, and let’s carouse!”</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">My Sovereign </span> G<small>OD</small> swears irrevocably:<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>irrevocably </b>Lit. “by His holiness.”</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Behold, days are coming upon you</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">When you will be carried off in baskets,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And, to the last one, in fish baskets,</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And taken out [of the city]—</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Each one through a breach straight ahead—</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And flung on the refuse heap</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>When you will be carried off … on the refuse heap </b>Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAllDouble\">—declares </span> G<small>OD</small>.",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Come to Bethel and transgress;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">To Gilgal, and transgress even more:</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Present your sacrifices the next morning</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And your tithes on the third day;</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And burn a thank offering of leavened bread;</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>thank offering of leavened bread </b>Cf. Lev. 7.12–14; where, however, the bread is not to be burned.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And proclaim freewill offerings loudly.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For you love that sort of thing, O Israelites</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAllDouble\">—declares the Sovereign </span> G<small>OD</small>.",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I, on My part, have given you</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Cleanness of teeth in all your towns,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And lack of food in all your settlements.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Yet you did not turn back to Me</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAllDouble\">—declares </span> G<small>OD</small>.",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I therefore withheld the rain from you</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Three months before harvesttime:</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I would make it rain on one town</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And not on another;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">One field would be rained upon</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">While another on which it did not rain</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Would wither.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">So two or three towns would wander</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">To a single town to drink water,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">But their thirst would not be slaked.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Yet you did not turn back to Me</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAllDouble\">—declares </span> G<small>OD</small>.",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I scourged you with blight and mildew;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Repeatedly</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>Repeatedly </b>Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i> your gardens and vineyards,<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Your fig trees and olive trees</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Were devoured by locusts.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Yet you did not turn back to Me</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAllDouble\">—declares </span> G<small>OD</small>.",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I sent against you pestilence</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">In the manner of Egypt;</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">f</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>pestilence / In the manner of Egypt </b>Alluding to the plagues at the time of the Exodus.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I slew your young men with the sword,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Together with your captured horses,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And I made the stench of your armies</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Rise in your very nostrils.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Yet you did not turn back to Me</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAllDouble\">—declares </span> G<small>OD</small>.",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I have wrought destruction among you</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">As when God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">You have become like a brand plucked from burning.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Yet you have not turned back to Me</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAllDouble\">—declares </span> G<small>OD</small>.",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Assuredly,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Because I am doing that to you,</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">g</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>Because I am doing that to you </b>Emendation yields “Because you are acting thus toward Me.”</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Even so will I act toward you, O Israel—</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Prepare to meet your God, O Israel!</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Behold the One who formed the mountains,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And created the wind,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And whose wishes</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">h</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>wishes </b>Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i> have been made known to mortals,<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Who turns blackness</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">i</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>blackness </b>Cf. Joel 2.2. Emendation yields “darkness”; cf. 5.8.</i> into daybreak,<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And treads upon the high places of the earth,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Whose name is </span> G<small>OD</small>—the God of Hosts."
        ],
        [
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Hear this word that I intone</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">As a dirge over you, O House of Israel:</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Fallen, not to rise again,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Is Maiden Israel;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Abandoned on her soil</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">With none to lift her up.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For thus said the Sovereign </span> G<small>OD</small> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">About the House of Israel:</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The town that marches out a thousand strong</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Shall have a hundred left,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And the one that marches out a hundred strong</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Shall have but ten left.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Thus said </span> G<small>OD</small> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">To the House of Israel:</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Seek Me, and you will live.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Do not seek Bethel,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Nor go to Gilgal,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Nor cross over</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>cross over </b>Into Judah; cf. 1 Kings 19.3.</i> to Beer-sheba;<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For Gilgal shall go into exile,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And Bethel shall become a delusion.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Seek </span> G<small>OD</small>, and you will live.<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Otherwise, [God] will rush like fire upon</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>will rush like fire </b>Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i> the House of Joseph<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And consume Bethel</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>Bethel </b>Septuagint reads “the House of Israel.”</i> with none to quench it.",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">[Ah,] you who turn justice into wormwood</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And hurl righteousness to the ground!</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">[Seek </span> G<small>OD</small>,]",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Who made the Pleiades and Orion,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Who turns deep darkness into dawn</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And darkens day into night,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Who summons the waters of the sea</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And pours them out upon the earth—</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Whose name is </span> G<small>OD</small> !",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\"><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Meaning of verse uncertain.</i> </span>It is [God] who hurls destruction upon strongholds,<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">So that ruin comes upon fortresses!</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They hate the arbiter in the gate,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And detest the one whose plea is just.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Assuredly,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Because you impose a tax</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>impose a tax </b>Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i> on the poor<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And exact from them a levy of grain,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">You have built houses of hewn stone,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">But you shall not live in them;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">You have planted delightful vineyards,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">But shall not drink their wine.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For I have noted how many are your crimes,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And how countless your sins—</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">You enemies of the righteous,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">You takers of bribes,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">You who subvert in the gate</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The cause of the needy!</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Assuredly,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">At such a time the prudent keep silent,</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">f</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>keep silent </b>Or “moan.”</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For it is an evil time.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Seek good and not evil,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">That you may live,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And that </span> the E<small>TERNAL</small>, the God of Hosts,<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">May truly be with you,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">As you think.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Hate evil and love good,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And establish justice in the gate;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Perhaps </span> the E<small>TERNAL</small>, the God of Hosts,<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Assuredly,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Thus said </span> G<small>OD</small>,<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The Sovereign—the God of Hosts:</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">In every square there shall be lamenting,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">In every street cries of “Ah, woe!”</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And the farm hand shall be</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Called to mourn,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And those skilled in wailing</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">To lament;</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For there shall be lamenting</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">In every vineyard, too,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">When I pass through your midst</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAllDouble\">—said </span> G<small>OD</small>.",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Ah, you who wish</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For the day of </span> G<small>OD</small> !<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Why should you want</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The day of </span> G<small>OD</small> ?<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">It shall be darkness, not light!</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">—As if someone were to run from a lion</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And get attacked by a bear;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Or, upon making it indoors,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Were to lean their hand on the wall</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And get bitten by a snake!</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Surely the day of </span> G<small>OD</small> shall be<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Not light, but darkness,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Blackest night without a glimmer.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I loathe, I spurn your festivals,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I am not appeased by your solemn assemblies.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">If you offer Me burnt offerings—or your grain offerings—</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will not accept them;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will pay no heed</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">To your gifts of fatlings.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Spare Me the sound of your hymns,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And let Me not hear the music of your lutes.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">But let justice well up like water,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Righteousness like an unfailing stream.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Did you offer sacrifice and oblation to Me</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Those forty years in the wilderness,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">O House of Israel?</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\"><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">g</sup><i class=\"footnote\">This verse and the next would read well after 6.14.</i> </span>And you shall carry off your “king”—<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Sikkuth and Kiyyun,</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">h</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>Sikkuth and Kiyyun </b>Two Akkadian names applied to Saturn, here deliberately pointed with the vowels of Heb. <i>shiqquṣ</i>, “detestable thing.”</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The images you have made for yourselves</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Of your astral deity—</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">As I drive you into exile beyond Damascus</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">—Said </span> G<small>OD</small>, whose name is God of Hosts.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">i</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>whose name is God of Hosts </b>I.e., who is Sovereign of all the astral bodies.</i> "
        ],
        [
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Ah, you who are at ease in Zion</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>Zion </b>Emendation yields “Joseph,” cf. v. 6, and 5.6, 15, where “Joseph” denotes the northern kingdom.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And confident on the hill of Samaria,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">You notables of the leading nation</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">On whom the House of Israel pin their hopes:</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>pin their hopes </b>Taking <i>baʼ l-</i> as synonymous with <i>baʼ ʻad</i>; see Isa. 45.24 and second note there.</i> ",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Cross over to Calneh and see,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Go from there to Great Hamath,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And go down to Gath of the Philistines:</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Are [you] better than those kingdoms,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Or is their territory larger than yours?</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>Or is their territory larger than yours? </b>Emendation yields “Or is your territory larger than theirs?”</i> ",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\"><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Meaning of verse uncertain.</i> </span> Yet you ward off [the thought of] a day of woe<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And convene a session of lawlessness.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They lie on ivory beds,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Lolling on their couches,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Feasting on lambs from the flock</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And on calves from the stalls.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They hum snatches of song</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">To the tune of the lute—</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They account themselves musicians</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>They hum snatches … account themselves musicians </b>Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i> like David.",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They drink [straight] from the wine bowls</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And anoint themselves with the choicest oils—</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">But they are not concerned about the ruin of Joseph.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Assuredly, right soon</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They shall head the column of exiles;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They shall loll no more at festive meals.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The Sovereign </span> G<small>OD</small> wholeheartedly swears:<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I loathe the Pride of Jacob,</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">f</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>Pride of Jacob </b>A poetic designation of the northern kingdom.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And I detest his fortresses.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will declare forfeit city and inhabitants alike</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAllDouble\">—declares </span> the E<small>TERNAL</small>, the God of Hosts.",
            "If ten people are left in one house, they shall die. ",
            "And if someone’s kinsman—who is to burn incense for one of the deceased<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">g</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>who is to burn incense for one of the deceased </b>Or “along with an embalmer.”</i> —comes to carry the remains out of the house,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">h</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>And if someone’s kinsman … out of a house </b>Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i> and he calls to the one at the rear of the house, “Are there any alive besides you?” the answer will be, “No, none.” And he will say, “Hush!”—so that no one may utter G<small>OD</small>’s name.",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For </span> G<small>OD</small> will command,<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And the great house shall be smashed to bits,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And the little house to splinters.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Can horses gallop on a rock?</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Can it be plowed with oxen?</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">i</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>Can it be plowed with oxen? </b>Meaning of Heb. uncertain; emendation yields “Can one plow the sea with oxen?”</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Yet you have turned justice into poison weed</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And the fruit of righteousness to wormwood.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">[Ah,] those who are so happy about Lo-dabar,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Who exult, “By our might</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">We have captured Karnaim”!</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">j</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>Lo-dabar…Karnaim </b>Two towns east of the Jordan recovered for Israel by Jeroboam II (see 2 Kings 14.25). For Lo-dabar, cf. 2 Sam. 9.4, 5; 17.27; for Karnaim, cf. Gen. 14.5.</i> ",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">But I, O House of Israel,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Will raise up a nation against you</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAllDouble\">—declares </span> the E<small>TERNAL</small>, the God of Hosts—<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Who will harass you from Lebo-hamath</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">To the Wadi Arabah.</span><br>"
        ],
        [
            "This is what my Sovereign G<small>OD</small> showed me: [A plague of] locusts was created at the time when the late-sown crops were beginning to sprout—the late-sown crops after the king’s reaping.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>the late-sown crops after the king’s reaping </b>Meaning of Heb. uncertain. The king’s reaping of fodder apparently occurred near the end of the rainy season, and whatever the locust destroyed after that could not be replaced for another year.</i> ",
            "When it had finished devouring the herbage in the land, I said, “O my Sovereign, E<small>TERNAL</small> One, pray forgive. How will Jacob survive? He is so small.” ",
            "G<small>OD</small> relented concerning this. “It shall not come to pass,” said G<small>OD</small>.",
            "This is what my Sovereign G<small>OD</small> showed me: Lo, my Sovereign G<small>OD</small> was summoning to contend by<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>to contend by </b>Emendation yields “flaming.”</i> fire that consumed the Great Deep and was consuming the fields. ",
            "I said, “Oh, my Sovereign, E<small>TERNAL</small> One, refrain! How will Jacob survive? He is so small.” ",
            "G<small>OD</small> relented concerning this. “That shall not come to pass, either,” said my Sovereign G<small>OD</small>.",
            "This is what I was shown: [God] was standing on a wall checked with a plumb line<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>checked with a plumb line </b>Or “destined for the pickax”; meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i> while holding a plumb line.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>plumb line </b>Or “pickax”; meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i> ",
            "And G<small>OD</small> asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” “A plumb line,”<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>plumb line </b>See second note at v. 7.</i> I replied. And my Sovereign declared, “I am going to apply a plumb line<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">f</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>plumb line </b>See previous note.</i> to My people Israel; I will pardon them no more. ",
            "The shrines of Isaac shall be laid waste, and the sanctuaries of Israel reduced to ruins; and I will turn upon the House of Jeroboam with the sword.”",
            "Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent this message to King Jeroboam of Israel: “Amos is conspiring against you within the House of Israel. The country cannot endure the things he is saying. ",
            "For Amos has said, ‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall be exiled from its soil.’”",
            "Amaziah also said to Amos, “Seer, off with you to the land of Judah! Earn your living<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">g</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>Earn your living </b>Lit. “eat bread.”</i> there, and do your prophesying there. ",
            "But don’t ever prophesy again at Bethel; for it is a king’s sanctuary and a royal palace.” ",
            "Amos answered Amaziah: “I am not a prophet,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">h</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>not a prophet </b>By profession.</i> and I am not a prophet’s disciple. I am a cattle breeder<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">i</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>cattle breeder </b>Meaning of Heb. uncertain; emendation yields “sheep breeder”; cf. the next verse and 1.1.</i> and a tender of sycamore figs. ",
            "But G<small>OD</small> took me away from following the flock, and G<small>OD</small> said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to My people Israel.’ ",
            "And so, hear the word of G<small>OD</small>. You say I must not prophesy about the House of Israel or preach about the House of Isaac; ",
            "but this, I swear, is what G<small>OD</small> said: Your wife shall play the whore<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">j</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>play the whore </b>Emendation yields “be abused”; cf. Lam. 5.11.</i> in the town, your sons and daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided up with a measuring line. And you yourself shall die on impure soil;<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">k</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>impure soil </b>Cf. Hos. 9.3 and note.</i> for Israel shall be exiled from its soil.”"
        ],
        [
            "This is what my Sovereign G<small>OD</small> showed me: There was a basket of figs.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>figs </b>Heb. <i>qayiṣ</i>, lit. “summer fruit.”</i> ",
            "I was asked, “What do you see, Amos?” “A basket of figs,” I replied. And G<small>OD</small> said to me: “The hour of doom<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>hour of doom </b>Heb. <i>qeṣ</i>.</i> has come for My people Israel; I will not pardon them again. ",
            "And the singing women of the palace shall howl on that day—declares the Sovereign G<small>OD</small>:<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">So many corpses</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Left lying everywhere!</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Hush!”</span><br>",
            "Listen to this, you who devour the needy, annihilating the poor of the land,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>who devour the needy, annihilating the poor of the land </b>Emendation yields “who on every new moon devour the needy, and on every sabbath the humble of the land”; cf. v. 5.</i> ",
            "saying, “If only the new moon were over, so that we could sell grain; the sabbath, so that we could offer wheat for sale, using an <i>ephah</i> that is too small, and a shekel that is too big,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>using an <i>ephah</i> that is too small, and a shekel that is too big </b>I.e., giving short measures of grain, but using oversize weights for the silver received in payment.</i> tilting a dishonest scale, ",
            "and selling grain refuse as grain! We will buy the poor for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals.” ",
            " G<small>OD</small> swears by<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>by </b>Or “concerning”; cf. 6.8 with note.</i> the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their doings.”",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Shall not the earth shake for this</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And all that dwell on it mourn?</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Shall it not all rise like the Nile</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And surge and subside like the Nile of Egypt?</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And in that day</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAllDouble\">—declares the Sovereign </span> G<small>OD</small> —<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will make the sun set at noon,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will darken the earth on a sunny day.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will turn your festivals into mourning</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And all your songs into dirges;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will put sackcloth on all loins</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And tonsures on every head.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will make the earth</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">f</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>the earth </b>Heb. “it”; cf. vv. 8 and 9d.</i> mourn as for an only child,<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">All</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">g</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>All </b>Lit. “the end.”</i> of it as on a bitter day.",
            "A time is coming—declares the Sovereign G<small>OD</small> —when I will send a famine upon the land: not a hunger for bread or a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of G<small>OD</small>. ",
            "People shall wander from sea to sea and from north to east to seek the word of G<small>OD</small>, but they shall not find it.",
            "In that day, the beautiful maidens and the young men shall faint with thirst—",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Saying, “As your god lives, Dan,”</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">h</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>As your god lives, Dan </b>See 1 Kings 12.28–29.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And “As the way to Beer-sheba lives”</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">i</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>As the way to Beer-sheba lives </b>See 5.5 with note.</i> —<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They shall fall to rise no more.</span><br>"
        ],
        [
            "I observed my Sovereign standing by the altar and saying: Strike the capitals so that the thresholds quake, and make an end of the first of them all.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>Strike the capitals … first of them all </b>Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i> And I will slay the last of them with the sword; not one of them shall escape, and not one of them shall survive.",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">If they burrow down to Sheol,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">From there My hand shall take them;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And if they ascend to heaven,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">From there I will bring them down.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">If they hide on the top of Carmel,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">There I will search them out and seize them;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And if they conceal themselves from My sight</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">At the bottom of the sea,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">There I will command</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The serpent to bite them.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And if they go into captivity</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Before their enemies,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">There I will command</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The sword to slay them.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will fix My eye on them for evil</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And not for good.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">It is the Sovereign </span> G<small>OD</small> of Hosts—<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">At whose touch the earth trembles</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And all who dwell on it mourn,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And all of it swells like the Nile</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And subsides like the Nile of Egypt;</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Who built the chambers in heaven</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And founded the vault on the earth,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Who summons the waters of the sea</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And pours them over the land—</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Whose name is </span> G<small>OD</small>.",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">To Me, O Israelites, you are</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Just like the Cushites</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>Cushites </b>People of Cush, the region south of Egypt.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAllDouble\">—declares </span> G<small>OD</small>.<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">True, I brought Israel up</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">From the land of Egypt,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">But also the Philistines from Caphtor</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And the Arameans from Kir.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Behold, my Sovereign </span> G<small>OD</small> is keeping an eye<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">On the sinful kingdom:</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will wipe it off</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The face of the earth!</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">But, I will not wholly wipe out</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The House of Jacob</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAllDouble\">—declares </span> G<small>OD</small>.",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For I will give the order</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And shake the House of Israel—</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Through all the nations—</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">As one shakes [sand] in a sieve,</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>sieve </b>A coarse sieve used for cleansing grain of straw and stones, or sand of pebbles and shells.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And not a pebble falls to the ground.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">All the sinners of My people</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Shall perish by the sword,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Who boast,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">“Never shall the evil</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Overtake us or come near us.”</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">In that day,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will set up again the fallen booth of David:</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will mend its breaches and set up its ruins anew.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will build it firm as in the days of old,</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">So that they shall possess the rest of Edom</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And all the nations once attached to My name<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>So that they shall possess the rest of Edom / And all the nations once attached to My name </b>I.e., the House of David shall reestablish its authority over the nations that were ruled by David.</i><br>—declares G<small>OD</small> who will bring this to pass.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">A time is coming</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAllDouble\">—declares </span> G<small>OD</small> —<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">When the plower shall meet the reaper,</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>the plower shall meet the reaper </b>Cf. Lev. 26.5.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And the treader of grapes</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The one who holds the [bag of] seed;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">When the mountains shall drip wine</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And all the hills shall wave [with grain].</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will restore My people Israel.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They shall rebuild ruined cities and inhabit them;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They shall plant vineyards and drink their wine;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They shall till gardens and eat their fruits.</span>",
            "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And I will plant them upon their soil,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Nevermore to be uprooted</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">From the soil I have given them</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAllDouble\">—said </span> the E<small>TERNAL</small> your God."
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    "versions": [
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            "THE JPS TANAKH: Gender-Sensitive Edition",
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    ],
    "heTitle": "עמוס",
    "categories": [
        "Tanakh",
        "Prophets"
    ],
    "sectionNames": [
        "Chapter",
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