Amos 1:2

So then he said—Yahweh, out of Zion, will roar, and, out of Jerusalem, will utter his voice,—and the pastures of the shepherds, shall mourn, and the top of Carmel, be dried up.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 herdmen of Tekoa,—of which (words) he had vision concerning Israel, in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

3Thus, saith Yahweh, Because of three transgressions of Damascus, and because of four, will I not turn it back,—Because, with threshing instruments of iron, they have threshed Gilead.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 25:2Now there was, a man, in Maon, whose cattle were in Carmel, and, the man, was exceeding great, and, he, had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats,—and so it was, that he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

Proverbs 20:2The growl as of a young lion, is the dread inspired by a king, he that provoketh him, endangereth his own life.

Isaiah 35:2It shall, blossom abundantly, and exult, Yea with exultation and shouts of triumph, The glory of Lebanon, hath been given to it, The splendour of Carmel, and Sharon,—They, shall see the glory of Yahweh, the splendour of our God.

Jeremiah 12:4How long, shall the land mourn, And, the herbage of the whole field, wither? For the wickedness of them that dwell therein, beast and bird, have perished, For say they, He will not see our latter end!

Jeremiah 25:30Thou, therefore, shalt prophesy against them all these words,—and shalt say unto them—Yahweh, from on high, will roar Yea from his holy habitation, will utter his voice, He will, roar mightily over his home, With a shout as of them who tread the winepress, will he answer unto all the inhabitants of the earth.

Hosea 13:8I will fall upon them as a bear bereaved, and will read asunder the enclosure of their heart,—that I may devour them there, like a lioness, the wild beast of the field, shall tear them in pieces.

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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