Amos 1:4-15 ▼

4 So I will send down fire upon the house of Hazael, and it will devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.

5 I will shatter the gate bars of Damascus, and I will cut off the residents of the Aven Valley, along with the one who holds the scepter from Beth-eden; and the people of Aram will be exiled to Kir,| says the LORD.

6 This is what the LORD says: |For three transgressions of Gaza —and now for a fourth— I will not turn away; because they exiled the entire population, delivering them to Edom.

7 So I will send down fire upon the wall of Gaza, and it will devour their fortified citadels;

8 and I will cut off the inhabitants of Ashdod, along with Ashkelon's ruler. I will turn to attack Ekron, and the rest of the Philistines will die,| says the Lord GOD.

9 This is what the LORD says: |For three transgressions of Tyre —and now for a fourth— I will not turn away; because they delivered the entire population to Edom, and did not remember their covenant with their relatives.

10 So I will send down fire upon the wall of Tyre, and it will devour their fortified citadels.|

11 This is what the LORD says: |For three transgressions of Edom —and now for a fourth— I will not turn away; because he pursued his brother with a sword, refusing to be compassionate. His anger was raging continuously; he kept up his unending wrath.

12 So I will send down fire upon Teman, and it will devour the fortified citadels of Bozrah.|

13 This is what the LORD says: |For three transgressions of the Ammonites —and now for a fourth— I will not turn away; because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their national borders.

14 So I will send down fire upon the wall of Rabbah, and it will devour their fortified citadels with an alarm sounding in the time of battle, and with a whirlwind in the time of storm.

15 Their king will go into captivity— he and his princes together,| says the LORD.