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Amos
Season I — Tanakh
The Torah
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The Former Prophets
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The Primeval Library
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The Ascension
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The Histories of the Return and the Revolt
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Season III — Brit Chadashah
The Besorot
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The Igerot of the Pillars
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The Order of the Assembly and the Fathers
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The Hymns and the Apocalypses
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Amos

Introduction

Introduction to Amos (The Book of Amos)

Within the Framework of The Ivri Heritage Bible

The prophetic document presented here, titled Amos (עָמוֹס — Burden-Bearer) and traditionally recognized as the Book of Amos, stands as a monumental structural blueprint of divine geopolitics, social ethics, and messianic restoration within the comprehensive architecture of The Ivri Heritage Bible. Rising from the rural pastures of the Southern Kingdom to confront the decadent, corrupt elite of the Northern Kingdom, the message of Amos unrolls as an uncompromised standard of forensic righteousness. It bridges the immediate historical reality of regional conquest with the ultimate, eschatological restoration of Yisrael in the final days.

Transmitted in this edition through a rigorous Hebraized linguistic framework, the translation honors the explicit source file "AMOS (AMOS) Amos" verbatim. By systematically stripping away generic Western and Hellenized classifications, it recovers the authentic covenantal designations, ancestral borders, and legal metadata preserved by the first-century Netzarim community to guide the walk of the set-apart remnant.

Textual Methodology: Restoring Sacred Names and the Hebraic Lexicon

An essential hallmark of The Ivri Heritage Bible is the restoration of pristine Hebrew vocabulary, regional definitions, and technical metadata directly within the prose:  The Divine Names and Sovereign Titles: The supreme covenantal designation Yahuah (יְהוָה) is systematically restored alongside Adonai Elohim (אֲדֹנָי אֱלֹהִים — Lord God), Elohim (אֱלֹהִים), and the title of cosmic military supremacy, Yahuah Elohim Tzeva'ot (יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵי צְבָאוֹת — the Lord God Almighty).  The Legal and Structural Vocabulary: Civic, spiritual, and systemic issues are identified using original Hebraic terms, categorizing the message as a heavy massa (מַשָּׂא — burden) containing the spoken davar (דָּבָר — word) or plural davarim (דְּבָרִים) of the Almighty. National violations are categorized as pesha (transgression) or systemic sins. True societal standards are framed through mishpat (מִשְׁפָּט — judgment / justice) and tzedakah (צְדָקָה — righteousness), while the secret counsel of the Divine is rendered as sod (סוֹד).  Topography and Geopolitical Mapping: The geographical framework preserves original regional identifiers, featuring Tziyon (צִיּוֹן — Zion), Yerushalayim (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם), Yehudah (יְהוּדָה), Yisrael (יִשְׂרָאֵל), Har Shomron (שֹׁמְרוֹן — mountain of Samaria), Beit El (בֵּית אֵל), Be'er Sheva, and foreign adversaries including Damesek (Damascus), Azzah (Gaza), Tzor (Tyre), Edom, B'nei Amon (Ammonites), Moav, and Mitzrayim (Egypt).  The Vocabulary of Liturgy and Institutional Decay: Internal communal assets are returned to their native nomenclature. The upright leader is a tzaddik (צַדִּיק), a prophet is a navi (נָבִיא) or plural neviim, a seer is a chozeh, and consecrated ones are Nezarim (Nazirites). Sacred environments focus on the mizbeach (altar) or plural mizbeachot, the mishkan (tabernacle), the Heykhal (temple), and the kapporet (mercy-seat). Religious calendar features include the Chodesh (new moon), the Shabbat (Sabbath) or plural Shabbatot, and the holy chaggim (feasts). The ultimate vessel of restoration is identified as the Sukkah (tabernacle) of David.

Prophetic Architecture and Critical Narrative Themes

The book of Amos unfolds across distinct, progressive thematic steps, moving from international lawsuits to severe structural cross-examinations, culminating in visionary symbols of collapse and eternal restoration.

1. The Geopolitical Lawsuit: Three Sins and Four (Chapters 1–2)

The book opens by identifying Amos, not as a professional member of the prophetic guild, but as one of the raw nokedim (נֹקְדִים — herdsmen) of Tekoa who received revelations two years before a cataclysmic ra'ash (רַעַשׁ — earthquake). The narrative sets a thunderous tone: Yahuah roars out of Tziyon and utters His voice from Yerushalayim, causing imperial pastures to mourn and the top of Karmel to dry up. Amos then executes a brilliant rhetorical encirclement of Yisrael by delivering a series of legal indictments against the surrounding nations using the formula "For three sins... and for four, I will not turn away from it." Damesek is condemned for threshing the pregnant women of Gil'ad with iron saws; Azzah and Tzor for human trafficking and delivering entire golah (captivity) groups to Edom while violating the covenant of brothers; Edom for pursuing his brother with the cherev (sword); and B'nei Amon for violent border expansion.

The circle tightens as Moav is judged for desecrating human remains, and the B'nei Yehudah are indicted for a far higher offense: rejecting the Torah of Yahuah and failing to keep His chukkim (ordinances). Finally, the full weight of the lawsuit lands upon Yisrael. The Northern Kingdom is charged with selling the tzaddik for kesef (silver) and the poor for sandals, exploiting the lowly, engaging in systemic incest that profanes the holy Shem (Name), and drinking extortion-gained yayin (wine) beside the mizbeach. Yahuah reminds them how He historically cut off the massive Emori before them and led them through the midbar (wilderness) for forty years, raising up neviim and Nezarim whom the elite deliberately silenced with wine and prohibitions. Consequently, Yahuah promises a crushing defeat from which neither the swift, the strong, nor the mounted horseman will escape.

2. The Courtroom Protocols and Indictments of Har Shomron (Chapters 3–4)

Chapter 3 outlines the unique forensic vulnerability of the chosen line. Yahuah states: "You especially have I known out of all the mishpachot (families) of the aretz (earth): therefore will I take vengeance upon you for all your sins." Amos establishes the unyielding law of cause and effect through a series of rhetorical questions, concluding that a shofar cannot sound in a city without the am (people) trembling, and "Adonai Elohim will do nothing, without revealing His sod to His evedim the neviim." Pagan nations like Ashur and Mitzrayim are summoned as external witnesses to look upon the rampant oppression on Har Shomron. Because the elite do not know how to do right and store up robbery in their ivory palaces (battei haShen), Yahuah decrees an invasion that will dismantle their luxury, rescuing only a tiny fragment of the population like a shepherd pulling two legs or a piece of an ear from a lion’s mouth. The mizbeachot of Beit El will be cast down and its altars shattered.

In Chapter 4, Amos targets the wealthy, predatory women of high society, famously labeling them the parot HaBashan (heifers of Bashan) who oppress the poor and demand luxury items. Yahuah swears by His kedushah (holiness) that they will be dragged out naked with meat hooks into boiling caldrons. The prophet mockingly encourages them to keep going to Beit El and Gilgal to multiply their transgressions with external, performative rituals. Yahuah details the progressive natural corrections He previously sent to break their rebellion—dullness of teeth, withholding the geshem (rain), blighting their gardens, sending pestilences, killing their youth by the cherev, and overthrowing cities like Sodom v'Amorah. Because they repeatedly refused to return, the ultimate warning is issued: "Prepare to meet your Elohim, O Yisrael." For He is the One who creates the ruach (wind), commands the thunder, proclaims His Mashiach (Anointed) to humanity, and treads upon the high places of the earth.

3. The Rejection of Empty Rituals and the Dark Yom Yahuah (Chapters 5–6)

Chapter 5 begins with a tragic lamentation over the fallen Betulat Yisrael (virgin of Israel). Yahuah commands the house of Yosef to seek Him and live, rather than crossing over to the corrupt ritual sanctuaries of Gilgal and Be'er Sheva. The elite are condemned for turning mishpat into poison, hating those who reprove in the city gates, and exploiting the poor to build polished stone houses they will never inhabit.

Amos issues a severe Hoy (Woe) to those who superficially desire the Yom Yahuah (Day of the Lord), exposing it as a day of absolute choshech (darkness) and not or (light)—likened to a man fleeing a lion only to be met by a bear, or leaning his hand on a wall only to be bitten by a venomous serpent. Yahuah explicitly states His disgust for their performative religion: "I hate, I reject your chaggim (feasts)... Remove from Me the sound of your songs." Instead of religious theater, the unchanging standard of the covenant is demanded: "But let mishpat roll down as water, and tzedakah as an impassable torrent." Because they historically carried the pagan tabernacle of Molech and the star of Ræphan into the wilderness, they are sentenced to exile beyond Damesek.

Chapter 6 expands this Hoy to the complacent leaders at ease in Tziyon and Har Shomron who adopt false Shabbatot, sleep on ivory beds, gorge themselves on choice livestock, invent musical instruments, drink strained yayin, and ignore the crushing ruin of Yosef. Yahuah swears by Himself that He abhors the ga'on (pride) of Ya'akov. He promises to strike houses with breaches and raise up an invading nation to afflict the entire country.

4. Visionary Judgments and the Restoration of the Sukkah of David (Chapters 7–9) Chapters 7 and 8 transition into specific visionary symbols shown to Amos. He witnesses a plague of locusts led by a caterpillar king (Gog), followed by a consuming judgment of esh (fire); both are averted only when Amos intercedes, crying: "Who shall raise up Ya'akov? for he is small in number." However, when Yahuah sets a plumb-line (anakh) in the midst of Israel, the verdict becomes absolute: the corrupt sanctuaries will be permanently set aside. This message triggers a sharp clash at Beit El, where the establishment priest Amatzyah accuses Amos of conspiracy and commands the chozeh (seer) to flee back to Yehudah. Amos responds with raw authority, identifying his background as a simple sheep- gatherer and a dresser of shiqmim (sycamore fruit), and delivers a devastating personal judgment against Amatzyah's household.

In Chapter 8, Amos beholds a kelub kayitz (basket of summer fruit), signaling that the Northern Kingdom is completely ripe for destruction. The prophet attacks merchants who find the Chodesh and the Shabbat an economic inconvenience, rushing through the holy days to use deceptive weights and sell low- quality wheat to buy the poor for shoes. Yahuah promises to turn their chaggim into bitter mourning and send a radical, terrifying famine upon the aretz—not a famine of lechem (bread), nor a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the davar Yahuah.

The book reaches its climax in Chapter 9. The prophet sees Yahuah standing directly upon the mizbeach, commanding the destruction of the sanctuary's kapporet (mercy-seat). The text guarantees that no sinner will escape judgment: whether they dig into She'ol, climb into Shamayim, hide on top of Karmel, or submerge into the depths of the yam, the divine hand will find them. Yet, amid this total winnowing process where Yisrael is sifted through a keverah (sieve) among all the goyim, Yahuah promises that not a single true grain will fall to the ground.

The book closes with the glorious, foundational messianic restoration promise: "In that yom (day) I will raise up the Sukkah (tabernacle) of David that is fallen, and will rebuild the charavot (ruins) of it... as in the ancient days." This rebuilt sanctuary will cause the she'erit of humanity and all goyim called by His Name to earnestly seek Yahuah. The landscape will explode with supernatural agricultural abundance—mountains dropping tirosh (sweet wine)—as the golah (captivity) of His people is completely overturned, planting them securely upon their aretz never to be plucked up again.

An Enduring Standard for the Remnant

Within the structural environment of The Ivri Heritage Bible, the Book of Amos stands as an unyielding ethical compass and a template for prophetic courage. It shatters the illusion that ritual compliance, financial dominance, or external religious theater can substitute for actual systemic justice and a true knowledge of Yahuah. As you read these intense, restored chapters from "AMOS (AMOS)", let the davar of the Almighty strip away all carnal complacency from your life, realign your walk with the flowing waters of mishpat, and anchor your hope in the sure restoration of the Sukkah of David.

— End of Introduction —

Amos—Chapter 1

The Massa of Yahuah Against Damesek, Azzah, Tzor, Edom, B'nei Amon — Three Sins and Four
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1The davarim (words) of Amos which came to him, one of the nokedim (herdsmen) of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Yerushalayim, in the days of Uzziyahu melech (king) of Yehudah, and in the days of Yaravam the son of Yoash melech (king) of Yisrael, two years before the ra'ash (earthquake). 2And he said, Yahuah has spoken out of Tziyon, and has uttered His voice out of Yerushalayim; and the ne'ot (pastures) of the ro'im (shepherds) have mourned, and the top of Karmel is dried up. 3And Yahuah said, For three sins of Damesek (Damascus), and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they sawed with iron saws the women with child of the Gil'adim (Galaadites). 4And I will send esh (fire) on the house of Chaza'el (Azael), and it shall devour the foundations of the son of Ader. 5And I will break to pieces the bars of Damesek, and will destroy the inhabitants out of the plain of Aven, and will cut in pieces a tribe out of the men of Charan: and the famous am (people) of Aram (Syria) shall be led captive, saith Yahuah. 6Thus saith Yahuah; For three sins of Azzah (Gaza), and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they took prisoners the complete golah (captivity), to shut them up into Edom (Idumea). 7And I will send forth esh (fire) on the walls of Azzah, and it shall devour its foundations. 8And I will destroy the inhabitants out of Ashdod (Azotus), and a tribe shall be cut off from Ashkelon (Ascalon), and I will stretch out My hand upon Ekron (Accaron): and the she'erit (remnant) of the Plishtim (Philistines) shall perish, saith Yahuah. 9Thus saith Yahuah; For three transgressions of Tzor (Tyre), and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they shut up the prisoners of Solomon into Edom (Idumea), and remembered not the Beriyt (covenant) of brethren. 10And I will send forth esh (fire) on the walls of Tzor, and it shall devour the foundations of it. 11Thus saith Yahuah; For three sins of Edom (Idumea), and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they pursued their brother with the cherev (sword), and destroyed the mother upon the aretz (earth). 12And I will send forth esh (fire) upon Teman (Thaman), and it shall devour the foundations of her walls. 13Thus saith Yahuah; For three sins of the B'nei Amon (children of Ammon), and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they ripped up the women with child of the Gil'adim (Galaadites), that they might widen their coasts. 14And I will kindle esh (fire) on the walls of Rabbah (Rabbath), and it shall devour her foundations with shouting in the yom (day) of war: 15and her melachim (kings) shall go into golah (captivity), their kohanim (priests) and their rulers together, saith Yahuah.

— End of Chapter 1 —

Amos—Chapter 2

From Moav to Yehudah to Yisrael: The Torah Rejected, the Tzaddik Sold, and the Nezarim Silenced
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1Thus saith Yahuah; For three sins of Moav, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they burnt the bones of the melech (king) of Edom (Idumea) to lime. 2But I will send forth esh (fire) on Moav, and it shall devour the foundations of its cities: and Moav shall perish in weakness, with a shout, and with the sound of a shofar (trumpet). 3And I will destroy the judge out of her, and slay all her sarim (princes) with him, saith Yahuah. 4Thus saith Yahuah; For three sins of the B'nei Yehudah (children of Juda), and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they have rejected the Torah of Yahuah, and have not kept His chukkim (ordinances), and their vain idols which they made, which their fathers followed, caused them to err. 5And I will send esh (fire) on Yehudah, and it shall devour the foundations of Yerushalayim. 6Thus saith Yahuah; For three sins of Yisrael, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they sold the tzaddik (righteous) for kesef (silver), and the poor for sandals, 7wherewith to tread on the dust of the aretz (earth), and they have smitten upon the heads of the poor, and have perverted the way of the lowly: and a son and his father have gone in to the same maid, that they might profane the Shem (name) of their Elohim. 8And binding their clothes with cords they have made them curtains near the mizbeach (altar), and they have drunk yayin (wine) gained by extortion in the house of their Elohim. 9Nevertheless I cut off the Emori (Amorite) from before them, whose height was as the height of a cedar, and he was strong as an oak; and I dried up his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. 10And I brought you up out of the land of Mitzrayim (Egypt), and led you about in the midbar (desert) forty years, that you should inherit the land of the Emori (Amorites). 11And I took of your sons for neviim (prophets), and of your young men for Nezarim (Nazirites). Are not these things so, you B'nei Yisrael (sons of Israel)? saith Yahuah. 12But you gave the Nezarim (consecrated ones) yayin (wine) to drink; and you commanded the neviim (prophets), saying, Prophesy not. 13Therefore, behold, I roll under you, as a wagon full of straw is rolled. 14And flight shall perish from the runner, and the strong shall not hold fast his strength, and the warrior shall not save his life: 15and the archer shall not withstand, and he that is swift of foot shall in no wise escape; and the horseman shall not save his life. 16And the strong shall find no confidence in power: the naked shall flee away in that yom (day), saith Yahuah.

— End of Chapter 2 —

Amos—Chapter 3

The Sod of Yahuah Revealed to His Neviim and Judgment on Har Shomron
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1Hear this davar Yahuah (word of the Lord), O house of Yisrael, which Yahuah has spoken concerning you, and against the whole mishpachah (family) whom I brought up out of the land of Mitzrayim (Egypt), saying, 2You especially have I known out of all the mishpachot (families) of the aretz (earth): therefore will I take vengeance upon you for all your sins. 3Shall two walk together at all, if they do not know one another? 4Will a lion roar out of his thicket if he has no prey? will a lion's whelp utter his voice at all out of his lair, if he have taken nothing? 5Will a bird fall on the aretz (earth) without a fowler? will a snare be taken up from the aretz (earth) without having taken anything? 6Shall the shofar (trumpet) sound in the city, and the am (people) not be alarmed? shall there be evil in a city which Yahuah has not wrought? 7For Adonai Elohim will do nothing, without revealing His sod (secret counsel) to His evedim (servants) the neviim (prophets). 8A lion shall roar, and who will not be alarmed? Adonai Elohim has spoken, and who will not prophesy? 9Proclaim it to the regions among Ashur (the Assyrians), and to the regions of Mitzrayim (Egypt), and say, Gather yourselves to Har Shomron (the mountain of Samaria), and behold many wonderful things in the midst of it, and the oppression that is in it. 10And she knew not what things would come against her, saith Yahuah, even those that store up wrong and misery in their countries. 11Therefore thus saith Adonai Elohim; O Tzor (Tyre), your aretz (land) shall be made desolate round about you; and he shall bring down your strength out of you, and your countries shall be spoiled. 12Thus saith Yahuah; As when a shepherd rescues from the mouth of a lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so shall be drawn forth the B'nei Yisrael who dwell in Shomron (Samaria) in the presence of a foreign tribe, and in Damesek (Damascus). 13Hear, O you kohanim (priests), and testify to the house of Ya'akov, saith Yahuah Elohim Tzeva'ot (the Lord God Almighty). 14For in the yom (day) wherein I shall take vengeance of the sins of Yisrael upon him, I will also take vengeance on the mizbeachot (altars) of Beit El: and the horns of the mizbeach (altar) shall be broken down, and they shall fall upon the ground. 15I will crush and smite the turreted-house upon the summer-house; and the battei haShen (ivory-houses) shall be destroyed, and many other houses also, saith Yahuah.

— End of Chapter 3 —

Amos—Chapter 4

Parot HaBashan on Har Shomron — Yet You Returned Not to Me: Prepare to Meet Your Elohim
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1Hear this word, you parot HaBashan (heifers of Basan) that are in Har Shomron (the mountain of Samaria), that oppress the poor, and trample on the needy, which say to their masters, Give us that we may drink. 2Yahuah swears by His kedushah (holiness), that, behold, the days come upon you, when they shall take you with weapons, and fiery destroyers shall cast those with you into boiling caldrons. 3And you shall be brought forth naked in the presence of each other; and you shall be cast forth on the mountain Rimmon, saith Yahuah. 4You went into Beit El, and sinned, and you multiplied sin at Gilgal (Galgala); and you brought your minchah (meat-offerings) in the morning, and your tithes every third day. 5And they read the Torah without, and called for public professions: proclaim aloud that the B'nei Yisrael have loved these things, saith Yahuah. 6And I will give you dulness of teeth in all your cities, and want of lechem (bread) in all your places: yet you returned not to Me, saith Yahuah. 7Also I withheld from you the geshem (rain) three months before the harvest: and I will rain upon one city, and on another city I will not rain: one part shall be rained upon, and the part on which I shall not rain shall be dried up. 8And the inhabitants of two or three cities shall be gathered to one city to drink water, and they shall not be satisfied: yet you have not returned to Me, saith Yahuah. 9I smote you with parching, and with blight: you multiplied your gardens, your vineyards, and your fig-grounds, and the cankerworm devoured your oliveyards: yet not even thus did you return to Me, saith Yahuah. 10I sent pestilence among you by the way of Mitzrayim (Egypt), and slew your young men with the cherev (sword), together with your horses that were taken captive; and in My wrath against you I set esh (fire) to your machanot (camps): yet not even thus did you return to Me, saith Yahuah. 11I overthrew you, as Elohim overthrew Sodom v'Amorah (Sodoma and Gomorrha), and you became as a ud (brand) plucked out of the esh (fire): yet not even thus did you return to Me, saith Yahuah. 12Therefore thus will I do to you, O Yisrael: nay because I will do thus to you, prepare to call on your Elohim, O Yisrael. 13For, behold, I am He that strengthens the thunder, and creates the ruach (wind), and proclaims to men His Mashiach (Anointed), forming the morning and the darkness, and mounting on the high places of the aretz (earth), Yahuah Elohim Tzeva'ot is His name.

— End of Chapter 4 —

Amos—Chapter 5

Seek Yahuah and Live: Let Mishpat Roll as Water and Tzedakah as a Torrent — Hoy to the Yom Yahuah
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1Hear this davar Yahuah (word of the Lord), even a lamentation, which I take up against you. The house of Yisrael is fallen; it shall no more rise. 2The Betulat Yisrael (virgin of Israel) has fallen upon his land; there is none that shall raise her up. 3Therefore thus saith Adonai Elohim; The city out of which there went forth a thousand, in it there shall be left a hundred, and that out of which there went forth a hundred, there shall be left ten to the house of Yisrael. 4Therefore thus saith Yahuah to the house of Yisrael, Seek Me, and you shall live. 5But seek not Beit El, and go not in to Gilgal, and cross not over to Be'er Sheva (the Well of the Oath): for Gilgal shall surely go into golah (captivity), and Beit El shall be as that which is not. 6Seek Yahuah, and you shall live; lest the house of Yosef (Joseph) blaze as esh (fire), and it devour him, and there shall be none to quench it for the house of Yisrael. 7It is He that executes mishpat (judgment) in the height above, and has established justice on the aretz (earth): 8who makes all things, and changes them, and turns darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night: who calls for the water of the yam (sea), and pours it out on the face of the aretz (earth): Yahuah is His name: 9who dispenses ruin to strength, and brings distress upon the fortress. 10They hated him that reproved in the gates, and abhorred holy speech. 11Therefore because they have smitten the poor with their fists, and you have received of them choice gifts; you have built polished houses, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted desirable vineyards, but you shall not drink the yayin (wine) of them. 12For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the tzaddikim (just), taking bribes, and turning aside the mishpat (judgment) of the poor in the gates. 13Therefore the prudent shall be silent at that time; for it is a time of evils. 14Seek good, and not evil, that you may live: and so Yahuah Elohim Tzeva'ot shall be with you, as you have said. 15We have hated evil, and loved good: and restore mishpat (judgment) in the gates; that Yahuah Elohim Tzeva'ot may have mercy on the she'erit (remnant) of Yosef (Joseph). 16Therefore thus saith Yahuah Elohim Tzeva'ot; In all the streets shall be lamentations; and in all the ways shall it be said, Hoy (Woe)! the husbandman shall be called to mourning and lamentation, and to them that are skilled in complaining. 17And there shall be lamentation in all the ways; because I will pass through the midst of you, saith Yahuah. 18Hoy (Woe) to you that desire the Yom Yahuah (day of the Lord)! what is this Yom Yahuah to you? whereas it is choshech (darkness), and not or (light). 19As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him; and he should spring into his house, and lean his hands upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him. 20Is not the Yom Yahuah (day of the Lord) choshech (darkness), and not or (light)? and is not this day gloom without brightness? 21I hate, I reject your chaggim (feasts), and I will not smell your minchah (meat-offerings) in your general assemblies. 22Wherefore if you should bring Me your olot (whole-burnt-sacrifices) and minchah (meat-offerings), I will not accept them: neither will I have respect to your grand shelamim (peace-offerings). 23Remove from Me the sound of your songs, and I will not hear the music of your instruments. 24But let mishpat (judgment) roll down as water, and tzedakah (righteousness) as an impassable torrent. 25Have you offered to Me victims and zevachim (sacrifices), O house of Yisrael, forty years in the midbar (wilderness)? 26You took up the mishkan (tabernacle) of Molech, and the star of your god Ræphan, the images of them which you made for yourselves. 27And I will carry you away beyond Damesek (Damascus), saith Yahuah, Elohim Tzeva'ot (the Almighty God) is His name.

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Amos—Chapter 6

Hoy to Those at Ease in Tziyon and on Har Shomron: The Ga'on Ya'akov Abhorred
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1Hoy (Woe) to them that set at nought Tziyon, and that trust in Har Shomron (the mountain of Samaria): they have gathered the heads of the goyim (nations), and they have gone in themselves. 2O house of Yisrael, pass by all of you, and see; and pass by thence to Hamath Rabbah; and thence descend to Gat (Geth) of the Plishtim (Philistines), the chief of all these kingdoms, see if their coasts are greater than your coasts. 3You who are approaching the evil day, who are drawing near and adopting false Shabbatot (sabbaths); 4who sleep upon beds of shen (ivory), and live delicately on their couches, and eat kids out of the flocks, and sucking calves out of the midst of the stalls; 5who excel in the sound of musical instruments; they have regarded them as abiding, not as fleeting pleasures; 6who drink strained yayin (wine), and anoint themselves with the best ointment: and have suffered nothing on occasion of the calamity of Yosef (Joseph). 7Therefore now shall they depart into golah (captivity) from the dominion of sarim (princes), and the neighing of horses shall be cut off from Efrayim (Ephraim). 8For Yahuah has sworn by Himself, saying, Because I abhor all the ga'on (pride) of Ya'akov, I do also hate his countries, and I will cut off his city with all who inhabit it. 9And it shall come to pass, if there be ten men left in one house, that they shall die. 10But a she'erit (remnant) shall be left behind, and their relations shall take them, and shall strenuously endeavour to carry forth their bones from the house: and one shall say to the heads of the house, Is there yet any one else with you? And he shall say, No one else. And the other shall say, Be silent, that you name not the Shem (name) of Yahuah. 11For, behold, Yahuah commands, and He will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with rents. 12Will horses run upon rocks? will they refrain from neighing at mares? for you have turned mishpat (judgment) into poison, and the fruit of tzedakah (righteousness) into bitterness: 13you who rejoice at vanity, who say, Have we not possessed horns by our own strength? 14For behold, O house of Yisrael, I will raise up against you a goy (nation), saith Yahuah Tzeva'ot; and they shall afflict you so that you shall not enter into Hamath, and as it were from the river of the wilderness.

— End of Chapter 6 —

Amos—Chapter 7

The Visions of the Locust and the Esh, the Anakh Set in Yisrael, and Amos the Nokedim Before Amatzyah at Beit El
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1Thus has Adonai Elohim shown me; and, behold, a swarm of locusts coming from the east; and, behold, one caterpillar, Gog (king). 2And it came to pass when he had finished devouring the grass of the aretz (land), that I said, Adonai Elohim, be merciful; who shall raise up Ya'akov? for he is small in number. 3Repent, O Yahuah, for this. And this shall not be, saith Yahuah. 4Thus has Yahuah shown me; and, behold, Yahuah called for judgment by esh (fire), and it devoured the great deep, and devoured Yahuah's portion. 5Then I said, O Yahuah, cease, I pray: who shall raise up Ya'akov? for he is small in number. Repent, O Yahuah, for this. 6This also shall not be, saith Yahuah. 7Thus Yahuah showed me; and behold, He stood upon a wall of adamant, and in His hand was an adamant. 8And Yahuah said to me, What do you see, Amos? And I said, An adamant. And Yahuah said to me, Behold, I appoint an adamant in the midst of My am (people) Yisrael: I will not pass by them any more. 9And the joyful mizbeachot (altars) shall be abolished, and the zevachim (sacrifices) of Yisrael shall be set aside; and I will rise up against the house of Yaravam with the cherev (sword). 10Then Amatzyah (Amasias) the kohen (priest) of Beit El sent to Yaravam melech (king) of Yisrael, saying, Amos is forming conspiracies against you in the midst of the house of Yisrael: the aretz (land) will be utterly unable to bear all his words. 11For thus says Amos, Yaravam shall die by the cherev (sword), and Yisrael shall be led away captive from his aretz (land). 12And Amatzyah said to Amos, Go, chozeh (seer), remove yourself into the land of Yehudah, and live there, and you shall prophesy there: 13but you shall no longer prophesy at Beit El: for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the royal house. 14And Amos answered, and said to Amatzyah, I was not a navi (prophet), nor the son of a navi: but I was a nokedim (herdsman), and a dresser of shiqmim (sycamore fruits). 15And Yahuah took me from the sheep, and Yahuah said to me, Go, and prophesy to My am (people) Yisrael. 16And now hear the davar Yahuah (word of the Lord): You say, Prophesy not to Yisrael, and raise not a tumult against the house of Ya'akov. 17Therefore thus saith Yahuah; Your wife shall be a harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the cherev (sword), and your aretz (land) shall be measured with the line; and you shall die in an unclean aretz (land); and Yisrael shall be led captive out of his aretz (land).

— End of Chapter 7 —

Amos—Chapter 8

The Kelub Kayitz — The End Has Come Upon Yisrael, the Shabbat Exploited, and a Famine of Hearing the Davar Yahuah
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1And behold a kelub kayitz (fowler's basket/basket of summer fruit). 2And He said, What do you see, Amos? And I said, A kelub kayitz (fowler's basket). And Yahuah said to me, The end is come upon My am (people) Yisrael; I will not pass by them any more. 3And the ceilings of the Heichal (temple) shall howl in that yom (day), saith Adonai Elohim: there shall be many a fallen one in every place; I will bring silence upon them. 4Hear now this, you that oppress the poor in the morning, and drive the needy ones by tyranny from the aretz (earth), 5saying, When will the Chodesh (month/new moon) pass away, and we shall sell, and the Shabbat, and we shall open the treasure, to make the measure small, and to enlarge the weight, and make the balance unfair? 6That we may buy the poor for kesef (silver), and the needy for shoes; and we will trade in every kind of fruit. 7Yahuah swears against the ga'on (pride) of Ya'akov, None of your works shall ever be forgotten. 8And shall not the aretz (land) be troubled for these things, and shall not everyone who dwells in it mourn? whereas destruction shall come up as a river, and shall descend as the river of Mitzrayim (Egypt). 9And it shall come to pass in that yom (day), saith Adonai Elohim, that the shemesh (sun) shall go down at noon, and the or (light) shall be darkened on the aretz (earth) by day: 10and I will turn your chaggim (feasts) into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sak (sackcloth) on all loins, and baldness on every head; and I will make them as the mourning of a beloved friend, and those with them as a yom (day) of grief. 11Behold, the days come, saith Yahuah, that I will send forth a famine on the aretz (land), not a famine of lechem (bread), nor a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the davar Yahuah (word of the Lord). 12And the waters shall be troubled from yam (sea) to yam (sea), and from the north to the east shall men run hither and thither, seeking the davar Yahuah (word of the Lord), and they shall not find it. 13In that yom (day) shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst; 14they who swear by the propitiation of Shomron (Samaria), and who say, Your elohim, O Dan, lives; and, Your elohim, O Be'er Sheva, lives; and they shall fall, and shall no more rise again.

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Amos—Chapter 9

The Kapporet Smitten, No One Shall Escape, the Sukkah of David Raised Up, and the Restoration of Yisrael for Ever
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1I saw Yahuah standing on the mizbeach (altar): and He said, Smite the kapporet (mercy-seat), and the porch shall be shaken: and cut through into the heads of all; and I will slay the she'erit (remnant) of them with the cherev (sword): no one of them fleeing shall escape, and no one of them striving to save himself shall be delivered. 2Though they hide themselves in She'ol (hell), thence shall My hand drag them forth; and though they go up to Shamayim (heaven), thence will I bring them down. 3If they hide themselves in the top of Karmel, thence will I search them out and take them; and if they should go down from My presence into the depths of the yam (sea), there will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them. 4And if they should go into golah (captivity) before the face of their enemies, there will I command the cherev (sword), and it shall slay them: and I will set My eyes against them for evil, and not for good. 5And Yahuah, Adonai Elohim Tzeva'ot (the Lord God Almighty), is He that takes hold of the aretz (land), and causes it to shake, and all that inhabit it shall mourn; and its destruction shall go up as a river, and shall descend as the river of Mitzrayim (Egypt). 6It is He that builds His ascent up to the Shamayim (sky), and establishes His promise on the aretz (earth); who calls the water of the yam (sea), and pours it out on the face of the aretz (earth); Yahuah Tzeva'ot is His name. 7Are not you to Me as the sons of the Kush (Ethiopians), O B'nei Yisrael? saith Yahuah. Did I not bring Yisrael up out of the land of Mitzrayim (Egypt), and the Plishtim (Philistines) from Cappadocia, and the Aram (Syrians) out of the deep? 8Behold, the eyes of Adonai Elohim are upon the kingdom of sinners, and I will cut it off from the face of the aretz (earth); only I will not utterly cut off the house of Ya'akov, saith Yahuah. 9For I will give commandment, and sift the house of Yisrael among all the goyim (Gentiles), as corn is sifted in a keverah (sieve), and yet a fragment shall not in any wise fall upon the aretz (earth). 10All the sinners of My am (people) shall die by the cherev (sword), who say, Calamities shall certainly not draw near, nor come upon us. 11In that yom (day) I will raise up the Sukkah (tabernacle) of David that is fallen, and will rebuild the charavot (ruins) of it, and will set up the parts thereof that have been broken down, and will build it up as in the ancient days: 12that the she'erit (remnant) of men, and all the goyim (Gentiles) upon whom My Shem (name) is called, may earnestly seek Me, saith Yahuah who does all these things. 13Behold, the days come, saith Yahuah, when the harvest shall overtake the vintage, and the grapes shall ripen at seedtime; and the harim (mountains) shall drop tirosh (sweet wine), and all the hills shall be planted. 14And I will turn the golah (captivity) of My am (people) Yisrael, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities, and shall inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and shall drink the yayin (wine) from them; and they shall form gardens, and eat the fruit of them. 15And I will plant them on their aretz (land), and they shall no more be plucked up from the aretz (land) which I have given them, saith Yahuah Elohim Tzeva'ot.

— End of Chapter 9 —

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