Amos 1:2

And he said: 1 Hashem roars from Tziyon, 1 and utters His voice from Yerushalayim; 1 and the pastures of the ro'im (shepherds) mourn, 1 and the summit of Mt Carmel withers. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And he said, The LORD 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.

In Context

1The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Yisroel in the yamim of Uziyah Melech Yehudah, and in the yamim of Yarov'am ben Yoash Melech Yisroel, two years before the earthquake. 1

3Thus saith Hashem: 1 For shloshah peysha'im of Damascus, 1 even for arba'ah, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; 1 because they have threshed Gil'ad with threshing sledges of barzel (iron); 1

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Cross References

1 Samuel 25:2And there was an ish in Ma'on, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the ish was gadol me'od, and he had three thousand tzon, and a thousand izzim (goats); and he was shearing his tzon in Carmel.

Proverbs 20:2The wrath of a melech is as the roaring of a lion; 1 he who provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own nefesh. 1

Isaiah 35:2It shall bloom abundantly, 1 and rejoice even with gilat (rejoicing) and rannein (joyous singing); 1 the kavod haLevanon (glory of Lebanon) shall be given unto her (the Aravah), 1 the hadar (majesty) of Carmel and Sharon; 1 they + 35:2 i.e., the desert and dry land in v.1 shall see the Kavod Hashem (glory of Hashem ), 1 and the Hadar Eloheinu (majesty of our G-d). 1

Jeremiah 12:4Ad mosai (until when) shall HaAretz mourn, 1 and the esev kol hasadeh (grass of every field) wither, 1 because of the wickedness of them that dwell therein? 1 The behemot are consumed, and the oph; 1 because they said: He + 12:4 G-d is blind to our future. 1

Jeremiah 25:30Therefore prophesy thou against them all these Devarim, and say unto them: 1 Hashem shall roar from on high, 1 and utter His voice from His Ma'on Kodesh; 1 He shall mightily roar upon His Naveh (Dwelling); 1 He shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, 1 against all the inhabitants of ha'aretz. 1

Hosea 13:8I will meet them as a dov (bear) that is bereaved of her cubs, 1 and will rip open the covering of their lev, 1 and there will I devour them like a lion; 1 as the wild beast of the sadeh would tear them. 1

Matthew Henry on Amos 1:2-3

Amos Though this prophet appeared a little before Isaiah, yet he was not, as some have mistaken, that Amos who was the father of Isaiah ( Isa. i. 1 ), for in the Hebrew their names are very different; their families too were of a different character, for Isaiah was a courtier, Amos a country-farmer. Amos signifies a burden, whence the Jews have a tradition that he was of a slow tongue and spoke with stammering lips; we may rather, in allusion to his name, say that his speech was weighty and his word the burden of… Read the whole commentary →

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