Chap. I. ^note In the reigne of Iozias in Iuda, and of Ieroboam in Israel, this prophet Amos, 3. threatneth Damascus, 6. Gaza, 8. Azotus, and other Philistians. 9. Tyre, 11. Idumea, 13. and Ammon, for their obstinacie in sinne, abusing his long patience.

1   The wordes of Amos, who was among ^note the pastours of Thecua: Which he saw vpon Israel in the dayes of Ozias the king of Iuda, and in the dayes of Iereboam the sonne of Ioas the king of Israel two yeares before ^note the earthquake.

2   And he sayd: Our Lord wil roare out of Sion, and out of Ierusalem he wil geue his voice: & the beautiful places of the pastours haue mourned and the toppe of Carmel is withered.

3   Thus sayth our Lord: Vpon ^note three wickednesses of Damascus, and ^note vpon foure I wil not conuert it: because they haue threshed Galaad with yron waynes.

4   And I wil send fyre into the house of Azael, and it shal deuoure the houses of Benadad.

5   And I wil breake the barre of Damascus: and I wil destroy the inhabitant out of the idol, and him that holdeth the scepter out of the house of pleasure: and the people of Syria shal be transported to Cyrene, saith our Lord.

6   Thus saith our Lord: Vpon three wickednesses of Gaza, & vpon foure I wil not conuert it, because they haue transported a perfect captiuitie, to shut it vp in Idumea.

7   And I wil send fyre on the wal of Gaza, and it shal deuoure the houses therof.

8   And I wil destroy the inhabitant out of Azotus, and him that holdeth the scepter out of Ascalon: and I wil turne my hand vpon Accaron, and the rest of the Philisthims shal perish, sayth our Lord God.

9   Thus saith our Lord: Vpon the three wickednesses of Tyre, and vpon foure I wil not conuert it: because they haue shut vp a perfect captiuite in Idumea, and haue not remembred the league of bretheren.

10   And I wil send fyre vpon the wal of Tyre, it shal deuoure the houses therof.

11   Thus sayth our Lord: Vpon three wickednesses of Edom, and vpon foure I wil not conuert him: because he hath persecuted his brother with the sword, and hath violated his mercie, and hath held his furie longer, and hath kept his indignation euen to the end.

12   I wil send fyre into Theman: and it shal deuoure the houses of Bosra.

13   Thus sayth our Lord: Vpon three wickednesses of the children of Ammon, and vpon foure I wil not conuert him: because he hath

cut in sunder the wemen with childe of Galaad to dilate his limite.

14   And I wil kindle a fyre in the wal of Rabba: & it shal deuoure the houses therof with howling in the day of battel, and with a whirlewind in the day of commotion.

15   And ^note Melchom shal goe into captiuitie, himself, and his princes together, sayth our Lord. Chap. II. ^note God also threatneth Moab, 4. Iuda, 6. and Israel, 9. that for ingratitude, 12. and other sinnes, they shal be brought into captiuitie.

1   Thvs sayth our Lord: Vpon three wickednesses of Moab and vpon ^note foure I wil not conuert him: because he hath burnt the bones of Idumea euen to ashes.

2   And I wil send fyre into Moab, and it shal deuoure the houses of Carioth: and Moab shal dye in the sound, in the noyse of the trumpet:

3   and I wil destroy the iudge out of the middes of him, and al his princes I wil kil with him, saith our Lord.

4   Thus saith our Lord: Vpon three wickednesses ^note of Iuda, & vpon foure I wil not conuert him: because he hath cast away the law of our Lord, and not kept his commandments: for their idols haue deceiued them, after which their fathers went.

5   And I wil send fire into Iuda, and it shal deuoure the houses of Ierusalem.

6   Thus saith our Lord: Vpon three wickednesses of Israel, and vpon ^note foure I wil not conuert him: because he hath sold the iust for siluer, and the poore for shoes.

7   Which bruise the heades of the poore vpon the dust of the earth, and decline the way of the humble: and ^note the sonne and his father haue gone to ^note a young woman, that they might violate my holie name.

8   And vpon garments layd to pledge they did lye beside euerie altar: & the wine of the condemned they dranke in the house of their God.

9   But I did cast out the Ammorrheit before their face: whose height the height of Cedars, & he strong as an oke: and I destroyed his fruite from aboue, & his rootes beneath.

10   It is I that made you come vp out of the Land of Ægypt, & I ledde you in the desert fourtie yeares, that you might possesse the Land of the Amorrheite.

11   And I raysed vp of your sonnes to be prophets & of your yongmen Nazareites, is it not so ô children of Israel, saith our Lord?

12   And you dranke wine to the Nazareites: and the prophets you commanded, saying: Prophecie not.

13   Behold I wil screake vnder you, as a wayne screaketh loden with hay.

14   And flight shal perish from the

swift, and the valient shal not obteyne his strength, and the strong shal not saue his life.

15   And he that holdeth the bow shal not stand, and the swift of his feete shal not be saued, and the rider of the horse shal not saue his life.

16   and the stoute of hart among the valients shal flee naked in that day, sayth our Lord. Chap. III. For their manifold sinnes, al the twelue tribes shal be sore plaged. 11. and made captiues.

1   Heare the word, that our Lord hath spoken vpon you, ye children of Israel: vpon al ^note the kindred that I brougt forth out of the Land of Ægypt, saying:

2   Onlie you haue I knowen of al the kindreds of the earth: therfore wil I visite vpon you al your iniquities.

3    ^noteWhy shal two walke together, vnles they be agreed?

4   Wil the lion roare in the forrest, vnles he haue a praye? wil the lions whelpe geue voice out of his denne, vnles he hath caught somewhat?

5   wil the bird fal into the snare of the earth, without the sowler? Shal the snare be taken away from the earth, before it hath taken somewhat?

6   Shal the trumpet sound in the citie, and wil not the people be afrayd? Shal there be ^note euil in the citie, which our Lord hath not done?

7   Because our Lord God wil not doe a word, vnles he haue reueled his secret to his seruants the prophets.

8   The lion shal roare, who wil not feare? Our Lord God hath spoken, who shal not prophecie?

9   Make it heard in the houses of Azotus, and in the houses of the Land of Ægypt: and say: Gather ye together vpon the mountaines of Samaria, and see the manie madnesses in the midddes therof, and them that suffer calumnie in the inner parts therof.

10   And they haue not knowne to doe right, sayth our Lord, treasuring vp iniquitie, and robberies in their houses.

11   Therfore thus sayth our Lord God: The land shal be in tribulation, & compassed about: and thy strength shal be plucked away from thee, and thy houses shal be spoyled.

12   Thus sayth our Lord: As if a pastour should get out of the lions mouth two legges, or the tippe of the eare: so shal the children of Israel, that dwel in Samaria, be deliuered, in the plague of the bed, and in the couche of Damascus.

13   Heare ye, and contest in the house of Iacob, sayth our Lord the God of hosts:

14   That in the day when I shal begin to visite the preuarications of Israel, I wil visite vpon him, and vpon

the altars of Bethel: and ^note the hornes of the altar shal be cut of, and shal fal to the ground.

15   And I wil strike the winter house with the summer house: and the houses of yuorie shal perish, and manie houses shal be dissipated, sayth our Lord. Chap. IIII. ^note The tenne tribes are particularly charged for oppressing the poore, 2. therfore threatned with calamities: 6. blamed for their obstinacie: 12. neuertheles al are admonished to expect Christ.

1   Heare this word ye ^note fatte kine, which are in the mountaines of Samaria: which doe calumnie to the needie, and breake the poore: which say to your lords: Bring, and we wil drinke.

2   Our Lord God hath sworne by his holie, that loe the dayes shal come vpon you, and they shal lift you vp on poles, and your remnant in pottes boyling hotte.

3   And by the breaches you shal goe out one against an other, & you shal be cast forth into ^note Armon, saith our Lord.

4    ^noteCome ye to Bethel, and doe impiousely: to Galgal, and multiplie preuarication: and offer in the morning your victimes, three dayes your tithes.

5   And sacrifice ye prayse of the leauened: and cal voluntarie oblations, and proclaime it: for so would you ô children of Israel, sayth our Lord God.

6   Wherupon I also ^note haue geuen you dulnes of the teeth in al your cities, and lacke of bread in al your places: and you haue not returned to me, sayth our Lord.

7   I also haue stayed the rayne from you, when there remayned yet three monethes vnto haruest: and I rayned vpon one citie, and vpon an other citie I rayned not: one part was rayned vpon; and the part whereupon I rayned not, withered.

8   And two and three cities came to one citie to drinke water, & were not filled: & you returned not to me, saith our Lord.

9   I stroke you with a burning winde, & with blasting, the multitude of your gardens, and al your vineyards: your oliue groues, & figgroues the eruke hath eaten: and you returned not to me, sayth our Lord.

10   I sent death vpon you in the way of Ægypt, I stroke your yongmen with the sword, euen to the captiuitie of your horses: and I made the putrefaction of your campe to come vp into your nostherels: and you returned not to me, sayth our Lord.

11   I subuerted you, as God subuerted Sodom and Gomorth, and you were made as a fyrebrand hastely caught from the burning: and you returned not to me, sayth our Lord.

12   Wherfore these thinges wil I doe to

thee Israel: but after I shal doe these thinges to thee, ^note be prepared to meete thy God ô Israel.

13   Because loe he that formeth the mountaines and createth the wind, and declareth his word to man, maketh the morning mist, and walketh vpon the high places of the earth: our Lord the God of host is his name. Chap. V. ^note Notwithstanding great miseries threatned against the tenne tribes: 4. yet if they wil repent they shal escape: 7. otherwise they shal fal into captiuitie: 14. and therfore they are admonished to returne to God: 16. but being obstinate, 21. no sacrifice can appeaze Gods wrath.

1   Heare ye this word, that I lift vpon you ^note a lamentation. The house of Israel is fallen, and it shal not adde to rise againe.

2   The virgine of Israel is cast forth vpon her land, there is none to rayse her vp.

3   Because thus sayth our Lord God: The citie, out of which came forth a thousand, there shal be left in it an hundred: and out of which there came an hundred, there shal be left in it tenne, in the house of Israel.

4   Because thus sayth our Lord to the house of Israel: Seeke ye me, and you shal liue.

5   And seeke not Bethel, and into Galgal enter not, and into Bersabee you shal not passe: because Galgal shal be led captiue, and Bethel shal be vnprofitable.

6   Seke ye our Lord: and liue: lest perhaps the house of Ioseph be burnt as fyre, and it shal deuoure, and there shal be none to quench Bethel.

7   You that turne iudgement into wormewod, and leaue of iustice in the land.

8   Him that maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and that turneth darknes into morning, and that changeth day into night: that calleth the waters of the sea, and powreth them out vpon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.

9   He that seeketh destruction vpon the strong, and bringeth depopulation vpon the mightie.

10   They haue hated him that rebuketh in the gate: and him that speaketh perfectly they haue abhorred.

11   Therfore because you spoiled the poore, and tooke the chosen praye from him: you shal build houses with square stone, and shal not dwel in them: you shal plant most amiable vineyards, and shal not drinke the wine of them.

12   Because I haue knowen manie your wickednesses, and your strong sinnes: enemies of the iust, taking bribe, and oppressing the poore in the gate.

13   Therfore shal the wise at that time hold his peace, because it is an euil time.

14   Seeke ye good, and not euil, that you may liue: and our Lord the God of

hosts wil be with you, as you haue sayd.

15   Hate ye euil, and loue good, and establish iudgement in the gate: ^note if perhaps our Lord the God of hosts may haue mercie on the remnant of Ioseph.

16   Therfore thus sayth our Lord the God of hosts the Dominatour, in al streates lamentation: and in al places that are without, shal be sayd wo wo: and they shal cal the husbandman to mourning, and to lamentation them that know to lament.

17   And in al vineyardes there shal be lamentation: because I wil passe through in the middes of thee, sayth our Lord.

18   Wo vnto them that desyre the day of our Lord: to what purpose the same vnto you? This day of our Lord, darkenes, and not light.

19   As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, & a beare should mete him: & enter into the house, & leane with his hand vpon the wal, and a serpent should bite him.

20   Why, is not the day of our Lord darkenes, and not light: and mist, and no shining therein?

21   I haue hated, and haue reiected your festiuities: and I wil not take the odour of your assemblies.

22   And if you shal offer vnto me holocausts, and your gifts, I wil not receiue them: and the vowes of your fat thinges I wil not respect.

23   Take away from me the tumult of thy songes: and the canticles of thy harpe I wil not heare.

24   And iudgement shal be reueled as water, and iustice, as a mightie torrent.

25   Why, ^note did you offer hostes and sacrifice to me in the desert fourtie yeares, ô house of Israel?

26   And you caried a tabernacle for your Moloch, and the image of your idols, the starre of your God, which you made to your selues.

27   And I wil make you remoue beyond Damascus, saith our Lord, the God of hostes is his name. Chap. VI. ^note For the auarice, and luxurie of both kingdomes, 7. they shal be caried into captiuitie.

1   VVo to you that are rich ^note in Sion, and haue confidence in the mountaine of Samaria: ye great men, heads of the peoples, going stately into the house of Israel.

2   Passe ye into Chalane, and see, & goe ye thence into Emath the great: and descend into Geth of the Palestines, and to al the best kingdoms of these: if their border be larger then your border.

3   You that are seperated vnto the euil day: and approch to the throne of iniquitie.

4   You that sleepe in beds of iuorie, and play the wantons in your couches: that eate the lambe out of the flocke, and calues out of the middes of the

heard.

5   You that sing to the voice of the psalter: as Dauid they haue thought themselues to haue the instruments of song.

6   That drinke wine in phials, and are annoynted with the best oyntment: and they suffered nothing vpon the contrition of Ioseph.

7   Wherfore now they shal goe in the head of them, that goe in transmigration: and the faction of the wantons shal be taken away.

8   The Lord God hath sworne by his soule, saith our Lord the God of hostes: I detest the pride ^note of Iacob, and I hate his houses, and I wil deliuer vp the citie with the inhabitants therof.

9   And if there shal be left tenne men in one house, they also shal dye.

10   And his kinsman shal take him vp, and shal burne him, that he may carie the bones out of the house: and he shal say to him, that is in the inner parts of the house: Is there yet with thee?

11   And he shal answer: There is an end. And he shal say to him: Hold thy peace, & remember not the name of our Lord.

12   Because loe our Lord hath commanded, and he wil strike the greater house with ruins, and the lesser house with clefts.

13   Why ^note can horses runne vpon rockes, or can there be ploughing with buffles? because you haue turned iudgement into bitternes, and the fruite of iustice into wormewood?

14   Which reioyce in thinges of naught: which say: Why haue not we taken vnto vs hornes in our owne strength?

15   For behold I wil rayse vp from you ô house of Israel, saith our Lord the God of hostes, a nation: and they shal destroy you from the entrance of Emath, euen to the torrent of the desert. Chap. VII. In three visions manie miseries are reueled, which shal come vpon both the kingdomes. 10. A false priest of Bethel accusing the prophet of sedition, and endeuouring to chase him away, 14. is by him forewarned of miseries to his familie, and death to himself.

1   These thinges hath our Lord God shewed to me: and loe the former ^note of the locust in the beginning of thinges that spring of the later rayne, and behold the later rayne after the kings mowing.

2   And it came to passe: after it had finished to eate the grasse of the land, I sayd: O Lord God be propicious I beseech thee: who shal rayse vp Iacob, because he is a litle one?

3   Our Lord hath had pitie vpon this: ^note It shal not be, sayth our Lord.

4   These thinges hath our Lord God called iudgement vnto ^note fyre, and it deuoured the great depth

and it did eate a part together.

5   And I sayd: Lord God be quiet I besech thee: who shal rayse vp Iacob, because he is a litle one?

6   Our Lord had pitie vpon this: Yea this also shal not be, sayth our Lord God.

7   These thinges hath our Lord shewed to me: and loe our Lord standing vpon a wal plastered, and in his hand ^note a masons truel.

8   And our Lord sayd to me:? What seest thou Amos? And I sayd: A masons truel. And our Lord sayd: Behold I wil lay downe the truel in the middes of my people Israel: I wil adde no more to plaster it ouer.

9   And the excelses of the idol shal be throwen dowen, and the sanctifications of Israel shal be made desolate: and I wil rise vpon the house of Ieroboam with the sword.

10   And Amasias the priest of Bethel sent to Ieroboam the king of Israel, saying: Amos ^note hath rebelled against thee in the middes of the house of Israel: the land wil not be able to susteyne al his wordes.

11   For thus saith Amos: ^note Ieroboam shal dye by the sword, and Israel shal depart captiue out of their land.

12   And Amasias sayd to Amos: Thou that seest, goe, flee into the land of Iuda: & eate bread there, and thou shalt prophecie there.

13   And in Bethel thou shalt adde no more to prophecie: because it is the sanctification of the king, and it is the house of the kingdom.

14   And Amos answered, and sayd to Amasias: I am not a prophete ^note, and I am not the sonne of a prophet: but an heardsman am I plucking sycomores.

15   And our Lord tooke me when I folowed the flocke, and our Lord sayd to me: Goe, prophecie to my people Israel.

16   And now heare the word of our Lord: Thou sayest: Thou shalt not prophecie vpon Israel, and thou shalt not distil vpon the house of the idol.

17   Therfore thus saith our Lord: Thy wife shal fornicate in the citie, and thy sonnes, and thy daughters shal fal by the sword, & thy ground shal be measured with a corde: and thou shalt dye in a polluted land, and Israel shal depart captiue out of their land. Chap. VIII. ^note In a vision of an apple hooke the captiuitie of the tenne tribes is againe foreshewed, 4. with reprehension of their auarice, and oppression of the poore: 7. for which they shal fal into great miseries.

1   These thinges hath our Lord shewed to me: and ^note behold an apple hooke.

2   And he sayd: What seest thou Amos? And I sayd: An apple hooke. And our Lord sayd to

me: The end cometh vpon my people Israel: I wil adde no more to passe them.

3   And the henges of the temple shal creake in that day, saith our Lord God: manie shal dye: in euerie place shal silence be cast.

4   Heare this you that tread downe the poore, & make the needie of the land to fayle,

5   saying: When wil the moneth passe, and we shal sel wares: and the Sabbath, and we open the corne: that we may diminish the measure, and increase the sicle, and conuey in deceitful balances,

6   that we may for siluer possesse the needie, and the poore for shoes, and may sel the refuse of the corne?

7   Our Lord hath sworne agaynst the pride of Iacob: If I shal forget euen to the end al their workes.

8   Why, shal not the land be moued vpon this, and euerie inhabitant therof mourne: and rise vp as a riuer altogether, and be cast out, and runne downe to the riuer of Ægypt?

9   And it shal be in that day, saith our Lord God: ^note The sunne shal goe downe at midday, & I wil make the earth to be darke in the day of light.

10   And I wil turne your festiuities into mourning, and al your songues into lamentation: and I wil bring in vpon euerie backe of yours sackcloth, and vpon euerie head baldnes: and I wil lay it as the mourning of an onlie begotten sonne, and the later end therof as a bitter day.

11   Behold the dayes come, saith our Lord, and I wil send forth famine into the land: ^note not the famine of bread, nor thirst of water, but of hearing the word of the Lord.

12   And they shal be moued from the sea euen to sea, and from the North euen to the East: they shal goe about seeking the word of our Lord, and shal not finde.

13   In that day the fayre virgins shal faile, & the yongmen in thirst.

14   They that sweare by the sinne of Samaria, and say: Thy God ô Dan liueth: and the way of Bersebee liueth: and they shal fal, and shal rise no more. Chap. IX. ^note The great destruction of Ierusalem, 8. and dispersion of al the Iewes are againe prophecied: 11. with the conuersion of Gentils, and the Church of Christ shal greatly prosper.

1   I Saw our Lord standing vpon ^note the altar, and he sayd: Strike ^note the henges, & let the lintels be moued: for there is auarice in the head of al, and the last of them wil I kil by the sword: there shal be no flight for them: they shal flee, and he shal not be saued that shal flee of them.

2   If they shal descend euen to hel, thence shal my hand bring them out: and if they

shal ascend enen to heauen, thence wil I plucke them downe.

3   And if they shal be hid in the toppe of Carmel, thence searching wil I take them away: and if they shal hide themselues from mine eyes in the depth of the sea, there wil I command the serpent & he shal bite them.

4   And if they shal go into captiuitie before their enemies, there wil I command the sword, and it shal kil them. And I wil set mine eyes vpon them to euil, and not to good.

5   And our Lord the God of hostes, which toucheth the earth, and it shal melt away: and al that dwel therein shal mourne: and it shal al rise as a riuer, and shal runne downe as the floud of Ægypt.

6   He that buildeth in heauen his ascension, and hath founded ^note his bundel vpon the earth: who calleth the waters of the sea, and powreth them out vpon the face of the earth, the Lord is his name.

7   Why, are not you as the children of the Æthiopians vnto me, ô children of Israel, saith our Lord? Did not I make Israel to ascend out of the Land of Ægypt: and the Palesthins out of Cappadocia, and the Syrians out of Cyrenee?

8   Behold the eyes of our Lord God vpon the sinning kingdom, & I wil destroy it from the face of the earth: but yet destroying I wil not destroy ^note the house of Iacob, sayth our Lord.

9   For behold I wil command, and wil shake the house of Israel in al nations, as wheate is shaken in a sieue: and there shal not a litle stone fal vpon the earth.

10   Al the sinners of my people shal fal by the sword: which say: The euil shal not approch, & shal not come vpon vs.

11    ^noteIn that day I wil rayse vp the tabernacle of Dauid, that was fallen: & I wil reedifie the breaches of the walles therof, and those thinges, that were fallen I wil repayre: and I wil reedifie him as in the dayes of old.

12   That they may possesse the remnant of Idumea, and al nations, because that my name is inuocated vpon them: saith our Lord that doth these thinges.

13   Behold the dayes come, saith our Lord: and the plougher shal ouertake the reaper, & the treader of the grape him that soweth sede: and the mountaynes shal droppe sweetnes, and al hilles shal be tilled.

14   And I wil conuert the captiuitie of my people Israel: and they shal build the desert cities, & inhabite: and shal plant vineyards, and drinke the wine of them: & shal make gardens, and eate the fruites of them. And I wil plant them vpon their owne ground: & I wil no more plucke them out of their land, which I haue geuen them, sayth our Lord thy God.

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