Amos

Amos begins during Uzziah and Jeroboam II, announcing the LORD’s roar and an earthquake, then decrees ‘for three sins and for four’ fiery judgments on Damascus, Gaza, Tyre, Edom, and Ammon for brutal warfare and slave-trading.

God condemns Moab for burning Edom’s king, Judah for rejecting the Law, and Israel for selling the righteous, trampling the poor, corrupting justice, and sexual immorality, vowing to crush them like an overloaded cart.

Because Israel alone was chosen from Egypt, its sins are exposed: the prophet must speak, foreign witnesses will see Samaria’s oppression, and on the day of punishment Bethel’s altars and every luxurious house will be destroyed.

The pampered “cows of Bashan” and idolatrous worshipers at Bethel will be led away with hooks; despite famine, drought, blight, pestilence, and fire Israel refused to return, so they must ‘prepare to meet your God’ who forms mountains and winds.

A funeral lament says only a remnant will survive; Israel must seek the LORD, hate evil and love good, for the Day of the LORD will be darkness to injustice; God spurns their festivals and songs, demanding justice roll like waters.

Woe to complacent nobles lounging on ivory beds and feasting while Joseph collapses: their pride and trust in force will make them the first exiles when the LORD raises a nation to oppress them from Hamath to the Arabah.

Visions of locusts and fire are averted by Amos’s prayer, but the plumb-line vision shows no more pardon—high places will fall and Jeroboam’s house perish; when priest Amaziah expels him, Amos foretells Amaziah’s family’s disgrace and Israel’s captivity.

A basket of ripe summer fruit signals Israel’s end: songs will turn to wailing, greedy merchants who cheat the poor will face earth-quakes, sun-darkness, and a famine—not of bread but of hearing the word of the LORD.

The LORD shatters the temple pillars and hunts fugitives to Sheol or heaven; yet He will sift the nation, destroy the sinners, then rebuild David’s fallen booth, restore vineyards and gardens, and plant Israel securely in its land forever.