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1 aBlow a trumpet in Zion,
And sound an alarm on My holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,
For the bday of the Lord is coming;
Surely it is near,
2 A day of adarkness and gloom,
A day of clouds and thick darkness.
As the dawn is spread over the mountains,
So there is a bgreat and mighty people;
There has cnever been anything like it,
Nor will there be again after it
To the years of many generations.
3 A afire consumes before them
And behind them a flame burns.
The land is blike the garden of Eden before them
But a cdesolate wilderness behind them,
And nothing at all escapes them.
4 Their aappearance is like the appearance of horses;
And like war horses, so they run.
5 1With a anoise as of chariots
They leap on the tops of the mountains,
Like the 2crackling of a bflame of fire consuming the stubble,
Like a mighty people arranged for battle.
6 Before them the people are in aanguish;
They climb the wall like soldiers;
And they each amarch 1in line,
Nor do they deviate from their paths.
8 They do not crowd each other,
They march everyone in his path;
When they 1burst through the 2defenses,
They do not break ranks.
They run on the wall;
They climb into the ahouses,
They benter through the windows like a thief.
10 Before them the earth aquakes,
The heavens tremble,
The bsun and the moon grow dark
And the stars lose their brightness.
11 The Lord autters His voice before bHis army;
Surely His camp is very great,
For cstrong is he who carries out His word.
The dday of the Lord is indeed great and very awesome,
And ewho can endure it?
12 “Yet even now,” declares the Lord,
“aReturn to Me with all your heart,
And with bfasting, weeping and mourning;
13 And arend your heart and not byour garments.”
Now return to the Lord your God,
For He is cgracious and compassionate,
Slow to anger, abounding in lovingkindness
And drelenting of evil.
14 Who knows awhether He will not turn and relent
And leave a bblessing behind Him,
Even ca grain offering and a drink offering
For the Lord your God?
15 aBlow a trumpet in Zion,
bConsecrate a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly,
16 Gather the people, asanctify the congregation,
Assemble the elders,
Gather the children and the nursing infants.
Let the bbridegroom come out of his room
And the bride out of her bridal chamber.
17 Let the priests, the Lord’s ministers,
Weep abetween the porch and the altar,
And let them say, “bSpare Your people, O Lord,
And do not make Your inheritance a creproach,
A byword among the nations.
Why should they among the peoples say,
‘dWhere is their God?’ ”
18 Then the Lord 1will be azealous for His land
And 2will have bpity on His people.
19 The Lord 1will answer and say to His people,
“Behold, I am going to asend you grain, new wine and oil,
And you will be satisfied in full with 2them;
And I will bnever again make you a reproach among the nations.
20 “But I will remove the anorthern army far from you,
And I will drive it into a parched and desolate land,
And its vanguard into the beastern sea,
And its rear guard into the cwestern sea.
And its dstench will arise and its foul smell will come up,
For it has done great things.”
21 aDo not fear, O land, rejoice and be glad,
For the Lord has done bgreat things.
22 Do not fear, beasts of the field,
For the apastures of the wilderness have turned green,
For the tree has borne its fruit,
The fig tree and the vine have yielded 1in full.
23 So rejoice, O asons of Zion,
And bbe glad in the Lord your God;
For He has cgiven you 1the early rain for your vindication.
And He has poured down for you the rain,
The 2early and 3dlatter rain 4as before.
24 The threshing floors will be full of grain,
And the vats will aoverflow with the new wine and oil.
25 “Then I will make up to you for the years
That the swarming alocust has eaten,
The creeping locust, the stripping locust and the gnawing locust,
My great army which I sent among you.
26 “You will have plenty to aeat and be satisfied
And bpraise the name of the Lord your God,
Who has cdealt wondrously with you;
Then My people will dnever be put to shame.
27 “Thus you will aknow that I am in the midst of Israel,
And that I am the Lord your God,
And there is bno other;
And My people will never be cput to shame.
28 “1aIt will come about after this
That I will bpour out My Spirit on all 2cmankind;
And your sons and daughters will prophesy,
Your old men will dream dreams,
Your young men will see visions.
29 “Even on the amale and female servants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days.
30 “I will adisplay wonders in the sky and on the earth,
Blood, fire and columns of smoke.
31 “The asun will be turned into darkness
And the moon into blood
Before the bgreat and awesome day of the Lord comes.
32 “And it will come about that awhoever calls on the name of the Lord
Will be delivered;
For bon Mount Zion and in Jerusalem
There will be those who cescape,
As the Lord has said,
Even among the dsurvivors whom the Lord calls.
1 “1For behold, ain those days and at that time,
When I brestore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 I will agather all the nations
And bring them down to the bvalley of 1Jehoshaphat.
Then I will center into judgment with them there
On behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel,
Whom they have dscattered among the nations;
And they have edivided up My land.
3 “They have also acast lots for My people,
And sold a girl for wine that they may drink.
4 “Moreover, what are you to Me, O aTyre, Sidon and all the regions of bPhilistia? Are you rendering Me a recompense? But if you do recompense Me, swiftly and speedily I will creturn your recompense on your head.
5 “Since you have ataken My silver and My gold, brought My precious 1treasures to your temples,
6 and sold the asons of Judah and Jerusalem to the 1Greeks in order to remove them far from their territory,
7 behold, I am going to aarouse them from the place where you have sold them, and return your recompense on your head.
8 “Also I will asell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the bSabeans, to a distant nation,” for the Lord has spoken.
9 aProclaim this among the nations:
bPrepare a war; crouse the mighty men!
Let all the soldiers draw near, let them come up!
10 aBeat your plowshares into swords
And your pruning hooks into spears;
bLet the weak say, “I am a mighty man.”
11 1aHasten and come, all you surrounding nations,
And gather yourselves there.
Bring down, O Lord, Your bmighty ones.
And come up to the avalley of 1Jehoshaphat,
For there I will sit to bjudge
All the surrounding nations.
13 aPut in the sickle, for the bharvest is ripe.
Come, ctread, for the dwine press is full;
The vats overflow, for their ewickedness is great.
14 aMultitudes, multitudes in the bvalley of 1decision!
For the cday of the Lord is near in the valley of 1decision.
15 The asun and moon grow dark
And the stars lose their brightness.
16 The Lord aroars from Zion
And butters His voice from Jerusalem,
And the cheavens and the earth tremble.
But the Lord is a drefuge for His people
And a estronghold to the sons of Israel.
17 Then you will aknow that I am the Lord your God,
Dwelling in Zion, My bholy mountain.
So Jerusalem will be choly,
And dstrangers will pass through it no more.
18 And in that day
The amountains will drip with 1sweet wine,
And the hills will bflow with milk,
And all the cbrooks of Judah will flow with water;
And a dspring will go out from the house of the Lord
To water the valley of 2Shittim.
And Edom will become a desolate wilderness,
Because of the aviolence 1done to the sons of Judah,
In whose land they have shed innocent blood.
20 But Judah will be ainhabited forever
And Jerusalem for all generations.
21 And I will aavenge their blood which I have not avenged,
For the Lord dwells in Zion.
Amos
1 The words of Amos, who was among the asheepherders from bTekoa, which he 1envisioned in visions concerning Israel in the days of cUzziah king of Judah, and in the days of dJeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the eearthquake.
“The aLord roars from Zion
And from Jerusalem He utters His voice;
And the shepherds’ bpasture grounds mourn,
And the 1csummit of Carmel dries up.”
“For athree transgressions of bDamascus and for four
I will not 1revoke its punishment,
Because they threshed Gilead with implements of sharp iron.
4 “So I will send fire upon the house of Hazael
And it will consume the citadels of aBen-hadad.
5 “I will also abreak the gate bar of Damascus,
And cut off the inhabitant from the 1valley of Aven,
And him who holds the scepter, from Beth-eden;
So the people of Aram will go exiled to bKir,”
Says the Lord.
“For three transgressions of aGaza and for four
I will not revoke its punishment,
Because they deported an entire population
To bdeliver it up to Edom.
7 “So I will send fire upon the wall of Gaza
And it will consume her citadels.
8 “I will also cut off the inhabitant from aAshdod,
And him who holds the scepter, from bAshkelon;
I will even 1unleash My 2power upon Ekron,
And the remnant of the cPhilistines will perish,”
Says the Lord 3God.
“For three transgressions of aTyre and for four
I will not revoke its punishment,
Because they delivered up an entire population to Edom
And did not remember the covenant of 1bbrotherhood.
10 “So I will asend fire upon the wall of Tyre
And it will consume her citadels.”
“For three transgressions of aEdom and for four
I will not revoke its punishment,
Because he bpursued his brother with the sword,
While he 1stifled his compassion;
His anger also ctore continually,
And he maintained his fury forever.
12 “So I will send fire upon aTeman
And it will consume the citadels of Bozrah.”
“For three transgressions of the sons of aAmmon and for four
I will not revoke its punishment,
Because they bripped open the pregnant women of Gilead
In order to cenlarge their borders.
14 “So I will kindle a fire on the wall of aRabbah
And it will consume her citadels
Amid 1bwar cries on the day of battle,
And a cstorm on the day of tempest.
15 “Their aking will go into exile,
He and his princes together,” says the Lord.
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