- 1 Amos 1 1 Amos 1 (15 verses in the MT) opens: The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. The middle of the chapter continues: And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, says YHWH YHWH. It closes: And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, says YHWH.
- 2 Amos 2 2 Amos 2 (16 verses in the MT) opens: Thus says YHWH; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime: The middle of the chapter continues: Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height like the height of the cedars, and he strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. It closes: And courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, says YHWH.
- 3 Amos 3 3 Amos 3 (15 verses in the MT) opens: Hear this word that YHWH has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying, The middle of the chapter continues: The lion has roared, who will not fear? YHWH YHWH has spoken, who can but prophesy? It closes: And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, says YHWH.
- 4 Amos 4 4 Amos 4 (13 verses in the MT) opens: Hear this word, you kine of Bashan, that in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink. The middle of the chapter continues: And also I have withholden the rain from you, when yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon. It closes: For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth to man what his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, YHWH, The God of hosts, his name.
- 5 Amos 5 5 Amos 5 (27 verses in the MT) opens: Hear you this word which I take up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel. The middle of the chapter continues: Seek good, and not evil, that you may live: and so YHWH, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as you have spoken. It closes: Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, says YHWH, whose name The God of hosts.
- 6 Amos 6 6 Amos 6 (14 verses in the MT) opens: Woe to them at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came! The middle of the chapter continues: YHWH YHWH has sworn by himself, says YHWH the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein. It closes: But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, says YHWH the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath to the river of the wilderness.
- 7 Amos 7 7 Amos 7 (17 verses in the MT) opens: Thus has YHWH YHWH shewed to me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, the latter growth after the king's mowings. The middle of the chapter continues: And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword. It closes: Therefore thus says YHWH; Your wife shall be an harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you shall die in a polluted land: and Israel.
- 8 Amos 8 8 Amos 8 (14 verses in the MT) opens: Thus has YHWH YHWH shewed to me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. The middle of the chapter continues: Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as the flood of Egypt. It closes: They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Your god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
- 9 Amos 9 9 Amos 9 (15 verses in the MT) opens: I saw YHWH standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them. The middle of the chapter continues: Behold, the eyes of YHWH YHWH upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says YHWH. It closes: And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, says YHWH your God.