Amos 1:2

He said, 1 “Yahweh will roar from Zion; 1 he will raise his voice from Jerusalem. 1 The pastures of the shepherds will dry up; 1 the top of Carmel will wither.” 1

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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

1These are the things concerning Israel that Amos, one of the shepherds in Tekoa, received in revelation. He received these things in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and also in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

3This is what Yahweh says: 1 “For three sins of Damascus, 1 even for four, 1 I will not turn away punishment, 1 because they threshed Gilead with instruments of iron. 1

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Cross References

1 Samuel 25:2There was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel. The man was very wealthy. He had three thousand sheep and one thousand goats. He was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

Proverbs 20:2The fear of a king is like the fear of a young lion that is roaring; 1 the one who makes him angry forfeits his life. 1

Isaiah 35:2it will blossom abundantly and rejoice with joy and singing; 1 the glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon; 1 they will see the glory of Yahweh, the splendor of our God. 1

Jeremiah 12:4How long will the land go on drying up, and the plants in every field wither because of the wickedness of its inhabitants? 1 The animals and the birds have been taken away. Indeed, the people say, “God will not see what happens to us.” 1

Jeremiah 25:30You must prophesy all these words against them, and say to them, 1 'Yahweh will roar from the heights 1 and he will shout with his voice from his holy dwelling, 1 and he will roar mightily against his fold; 1 and he will shout, like those who tread the grapes 1 against all those who live on the earth. 1

Hosea 13:8I will attack them as a bear that is robbed of her cubs. 1 I will rip open their chests, 1 and there I will devour them as a lion, 1 as a wild beast would tear them to pieces. 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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