Restored King James Version Book of Amos
Based on the Authorised Version (King James) with the words "God" and "LORD"
restored to their original words, and various words
(thee, thine, shouldest, crieth, didst, etc) and
constructions (them that, etc) modernized.
1 The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen 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, YHWH will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from
Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of
Carmel shall wither.
3 Thus said YHWH; 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
Benhadad.
5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the
inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him who holds the sceptre from the
house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, said
YHWH.
6 Thus said YHWH; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for
four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away
captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:
7 But I will send a
fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:
8 And I
will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him who holds the sceptre from
Ashkelon, and I will turn my hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the
Philistines shall perish, said Adonai YHWH.
9 Thus said YHWH; For
three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the
punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and
remembered not the brotherly covenant:
10 But I will send a fire on the wall
of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.
11 Thus said YHWH;
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 his anger did tear 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 said YHWH; For three transgressions of the
children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might
enlarge their border:
14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, 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 their king shall go into
captivity, he and his princes together, said YHWH.
1 Thus said YHWH; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the
punishment thereof; because he 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 the midst thereof, and will
slay all the princes thereof with him, said YHWH.
4 Thus said YHWH; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away
the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of YHWH, and
have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the
which their fathers have walked:
5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it
shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
6 Thus said YHWH; For three
transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment
thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair
of shoes;
7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor,
and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto
the same maid, to profane my holy name:
8 And they lay themselves down upon
clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the
condemned in the house of their elohim.
9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before
them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the
oaks; 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, to possess the land of the Amorite.
11 And I raised
up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not
even thus, O you children of Israel? said YHWH.
12 But you gave the
Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
13 Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of
sheaves.
14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong
shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
15 Neither shall he stand that handles the bow; and he that is swift of
foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rides the horse deliver
himself.
16 And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked
in that day, said YHWH.
1 Hear this word that YHWH 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 families
of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
3 Can two
walk together, unless they be agreed?
4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when
he has no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken
nothing?
5 Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for
him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?
6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall
there be evil in a city, and YHWH has not done it?
7 Surely Adonai
YHWH will do nothing, but he reveals his secret unto his servants the
prophets.
8 The lion has roared, who will not fear? Adonai YHWH has
spoken, who can but prophesy?
9 Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the
palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains
of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the
oppressed in the midst thereof.
10 For they know not to do right, said YHWH, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
11 Therefore thus
said Adonai YHWH; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and
he shall bring down your strength from you, and your palaces shall be spoiled.
12 Thus said YHWH; 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 taken out
that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.
13 Hear you, and testify in the house of Jacob, said Adonai YHWH, the Elohim
of hosts,
14 That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel
upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar
shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.
15 And I will smite the winter
house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the
great houses shall have an end, said YHWH.
1 Hear this word, you kine
of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which
crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
2
Adonai YHWH has sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you,
that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
3 And you shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before
her; and you shall cast them into the palace, said YHWH.
4 Come to
Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your
sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:
5 And offer a
sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free
offerings: for this likes you, O you children of Israel, said Adonai YHWH.
6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want
of bread in all your places: yet have you not returned unto me, said YHWH.
7 And also I 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 piece was rained upon, and the piece
whereupon it rained not withered.
8 So two or three cities wandered unto one
city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have you not returned
unto me, said YHWH.
9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when
your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees
increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have you not returned unto me,
said YHWH.
10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of
Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your
horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils:
yet have you not returned unto me, said YHWH.
11 I have overthrown some
of you, as Elohim overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a firebrand
plucked out of the burning: yet have you not returned unto me, said YHWH.
12 Therefore thus will I do unto you, O Israel: and because I will do this
unto you, prepare to meet your Elohim, O Israel.
13 For, lo, he who forms
the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares unto man what is his
thought, that makes the morning darkness, and treads upon the high places
of the earth, YHWH, The Elohim of Hosts, is his name.
1 Hear you this word
which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
2 The
virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her
land; there is none to raise her up.
3 For thus said Adonai YHWH; The city
that went out by a thousand shall leave a hundred, and that which went forth
by a hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
4 For thus said YHWH unto the house of Israel, Seek you me, and you shall live:
5 But seek not
Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall
surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.
6 Seek YHWH,
and you shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and
devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.
7 You who turn judgment
to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
8 Seek him who
makes the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the
morning, and makes the day dark with night: that calls for the waters of
the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth: YHWH is his
name:
9 That strengthens the spoiled against the strong, so that the
spoiled shall come against the fortress.
10 They hate him who rebukes in
the gate, and they abhor him who speaks uprightly.
11 Forasmuch therefore
as your treading is upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you
have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have
planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.
12 For I
know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins: they afflict the
just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside 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 YHWH,
the Elohim of Hosts, shall be with you, as you have spoken.
15 Hate the evil,
and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that YHWH
Elohim of Hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
16 Therefore YHWH, the Elohim of Hosts, Adonai, said thus; Wailing shall be in all streets;
and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the
husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through you,
said YHWH.
18 Woe unto you that desire the day of YHWH! to what end
is it for you? the day of YHWH is darkness, and not light.
19 As if a
man did flee 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 Shall not the day of
YHWH be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn
assemblies.
22 Though you offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I
will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat
beasts.
23 Take you away from me the noise of your songs; for I will not
hear the melody of your viols.
24 But let judgment run down as waters, and
righteousness as a mighty stream.
25 Have you offered unto me sacrifices and
offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
26 But you have
borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your
elohim, which you made to yourselves.
27 Therefore will I cause you to go into
captivity beyond Damascus, said YHWH, whose name is The Elohim of Hosts.
1 Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of
Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel
came!
2 Pass you unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go you to Hamath the
great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these
kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?
3 You that put far away
the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
4 That lie upon
beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs
out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
5 That chant
to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of music, like
David;
6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief
ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
7 Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and
the banquet of those who stretched themselves shall be removed.
8 Adonai
YHWH has sworn by himself, said YHWH the Elohim of Hosts, I abhor the
excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the
city with all that is therein.
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 shall take
him up, and he that burns him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and
shall say unto him who is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with
you? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold your tongue: for we may not
make mention of the name of YHWH.
11 For, behold, YHWH commands,
and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with
clefts.
12 Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen?
for you have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into
hemlock:
13 You who rejoice in a thing of nought, who say, Have we not
taken to us horns by our own strength?
14 But, behold, I will raise up
against you a nation, O house of Israel, said YHWH the Elohim of Hosts; and
they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the
wilderness.
1 Thus has Adonai YHWH showed unto me; and, behold, he
formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth;
and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.
2 And it came to
pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I
said, O Adonai YHWH, forgive, I beseech you: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he
is small.
3 YHWH repented for this: It shall not be, said YHWH.
4 Thus has Adonai YHWH showed unto me: and, behold, Adonai YHWH called to
contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
5 Then said I, O Adonai YHWH, cease, I beseech you: by whom shall Jacob arise?
for he is small.
6 YHWH repented for this: This also shall not be, said
Adonai YHWH.
7 Thus he showed me: and, behold, Adonai stood upon a wall
made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
8 And YHWH said unto
me, Amos, what see you? And I said, A plumbline. Then said Adonai,
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 high places of Isaac shall be
desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise
against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
10 Then Amaziah the priest of
Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos has conspired against
you in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his
words.
11 For thus Amos said, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel
shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.
12 Also Amaziah said
unto Amos, O you seer, go, flee you away into the land of Judah, and there
eat bread, and prophesy there:
13 But prophesy not again any more at Bethel:
for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court.
14 Then answered
Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son;
but I was a herdman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit:
15 And YHWH took
me as I followed the flock, and YHWH said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my
people Israel.
16 Now therefore hear you the word of YHWH: You say,
Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not your word against the house of Isaac.
17 Therefore thus said YHWH; Your wife shall be a harlot in the city,
and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be
divided by line; and you shall die in a polluted land: and Israel shall
surely go into captivity forth of his land.
1 Thus has Adonai YHWH
showed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
2 And he said, Amos,
what see you? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said YHWH unto
me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them
any more.
3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, said
Adonai YHWH: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast
them forth with silence.
4 Hear this, O you that swallow up the needy, even
to make the poor of the land to fail,
5 Saying, When will the new moon be
gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat,
making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by
deceit?
6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of
shoes; yes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
7 YHWH has sworn by the
excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
8 Shall
not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwells therein? and
it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as
by the flood of Egypt.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, said Adonai
YHWH, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the
earth in the clear day:
10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and
all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins,
and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only
son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
11 Behold, the days come, said
Adonai YHWH, 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 YHWH:
12 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 YHWH, and shall not find it.
13 In
that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
14 Those who
swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Your elohim, O Dan, lives; and, The manner
of Beersheba lives; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
1 I
saw Adonai standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the
door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I
will slay the last of them with the sword: he that flees of them shall not
flee away, and he that escapes of them shall not be delivered.
2 Though
they dig into hell, thence shall my hand take them; though they climb up 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 thence; and though they be
hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent,
and he shall bite them:
4 And though they go into captivity before their
enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will
set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
5 And Adonai YHWH of
hosts is he that touches the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell
therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be
drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
6 It is he who builds his stories in
the heaven, and has founded his troop in the earth; he who calls for the
waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth: YHWH
is his name.
7 Are you not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children
of Israel? said YHWH. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of
Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
8 Behold,
the eyes of Adonai YHWH are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it
from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the
house of Jacob, said YHWH.
9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift
the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet
shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
10 All the sinners of my
people shall die by the sword, who say, The evil shall not overtake nor
prevent us.
11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is
fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and
I will build it as in the days of old:
12 That they may possess the remnant
of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, said YHWH
who does this.
13 Behold, the days come, said YHWH, that the plowman
shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him who sows seed; and
the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
14 And I
will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build
the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink
the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled
up out of their land which I have given them, said YHWH your Elohim.
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