And sold a damsel for wine to drink.

4 What have ye to do with me, O Tyre and Sidon, And all the borders of Philistia?

Will ye retaliate on me?

Or will ye do anything against me?

Swiftly and speedily will I bring back your doings upon your own head.

5 Ye have taken my silver and my gold,

And have carried into your palaces my precious, goodly things;

6 The sons also of Judah, and the sons of Jerusalem, Ye have sold to the Grecians,

That ye might remove them far from their border.

7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them,

And I will return your injury upon your own head;

8 I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah,

And they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation afar

off;

For Jehovah hath spoken it.

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Proclaim ye this among the nations:

Prepare war! Stir up the mighty ones!

Let all the warriors draw near; let them come up!" 10 Beat your ploughshares into swords,

And your pruning-hooks into spears;

Let the weak say, I am strong!

11 Assemble yourselves and come, all ye nations round about;

Gather yourselves together!

Thither, O Jehovah, bring down thy mighty ones!

12 Let the nations rise and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat!

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For there will I sit to judge all the nations around.

Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe;

Come and tread, for the wine-press is full;

The vats overflow;

For their wickedness is great!

14 The multitudes, the multitudes in the valley of judg

ment!

For the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of judgment. 15 The sun and the moon are darkened,

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And the stars withdraw their shining.

Jehovah also will roar from Zion,
And utter his voice from Jerusalem;
The heavens and the earth shall shake.
But Jehovah will be a refuge to his people;
A strong-hold to the sons of Israel.

17 Then shall ye know that I am Jehovah your God,
Dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain;

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And Jerusalem shall be holy;

Strangers shall pass through her no more.

In that day shall the mountains drop down new wine, And the hills shall flow with milk,

And all the streams of Judah shall flow with water.

A fountain shall come forth from the house of Jehovah, That shall water the valley of Shittim.

Egypt shall be a waste,

And Edom a desolate wilderness,

For their violence against the sons of Judah;

For they shed innocent blood in their land.

20 But Judah shall be inhabited for ever,

And Jerusalem from generation to generation.

21 And I will avenge their blood, which I have not avenged, And Jehovah will dwell upon Zion.

AMOS.

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INSCRIPTION.

The words of Amos, one of the shepherds of Tekoa, which he prophesied 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 earth quake. He said:

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Threats of punishment against several foreign states, and against Judah and Israel. CH. I., II.

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JEHOVAH will roar from Zion,

And utter his voice from Jerusalem;

The habitations of the shepherds shall mourn,

And the top of Carmel shall wither.

Thus saith Jehovah;

For three transgressions of Damascus,

And for four, will I not turn away its punishment;

For they thrashed Gilead with thrashing-wains of iron.

4 I will send a fire upon the house of Hazael,

Which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.

5 I will also break the bar of Damascus,

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And I will destroy the inhabitant from the valley of Aven,

And him that holdeth the sceptre from Beth-Eden,

And the people of Syria shall be led captive to Kir:
Jehovah hath said it.

Thus saith Jehovah :

For three transgressions of Gaza,

And for four, I will not turn away its punishment;

For they led captive all that fell into their hands,
And delivered them up to Edom.

7 But I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza,
Which shall devour her palaces.

8 And I will destroy the inhabitant from Ashdod, And him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon; And I will turn my hand against Ekron,

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And the residue of the Philistines shall perish.
The Lord, Jehovah, hath said it.

Thus saith Jehovah :

For three transgressions of Tyre,

And for four, will I not turn away its punishment; Because they delivered up all their captives to Edom, And remembered not the brotherly covenant.

10 But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, Which shall devour her palaces.

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Thus saith Jehovah :

For three transgressions of Edom,

And for four, will I not turn away his punishment; For he pursued his brother with the sword,

And cast off all pity,

And his anger tore perpetually;

Yea, he kept his wrath forever.

12 But I will send a fire upon Teman,

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Which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.

Thus saith Jehovah:

For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, And for four, will I not turn away their punishment; For they ripped up the women with child of Gilead, That they might enlarge their border.

14 But I will kindle a fire on the wall of Rabbah, Which shall devour her palaces,

Amid the war-shout in the day of battle,

In a whirlwind in the day of the storm.

15 Their king shall go into captivity,

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He and his princes together, saith Jehovah.

Thus saith Jehovah :

For three transgressions of Moab,

And for four, will I not turn away his punishment;

For he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime; 2 But I will send a fire on Moab,

Which shall devour the palaces of Kirioth;

And Moab shall die amid tumults,

Amid the war-shout, and the sound of the trumpet.

3 I will destroy the judge from the midst of him,

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And slay all the princes with him, saith Jehovah.

Thus saith Jehovah :

For three transgressions of Judah,

And for four, will I not turn away their punishment;
For they have despised the law of Jehovah,

And have not kept his statutes,

And their idols have caused them to err,

After which their fathers walked.

5 But I will send a fire upon Judah,

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Which shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

Thus saith Jehovah :

For three transgressions of Israel,

And for four, will I not turn away their punishment.
For they sell the righteous for silver,

And the needy for a pair of shoes;

7 They pant for the dust of the earth on the head of the

poor,

And pervert the cause of the afflicted.

The son and the father go in to the same damsel,

To dishonor my holy name.

8 They lay themselves down upon pledged garments Near every altar;

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And drink wine, procured by fines,

In the house of their gods.

Yet I destroyed the Amorites before them,

Who were tall as the cedars,

And strong as the oaks.

I destroyed their fruit above,

And their roots beneath.

10 I brought you up from the land of Egypt,

And led you in the desert forty years,

That ye might possess the land of the Amorite.