Amos 1 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Tyre, and for four I will not convert it: because they have shut up an entire captivity in Edom, and have not remembered the covenant of brethren.

² 0 And I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour the houses thereof.

³ 1 Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath pursued his brother with the sword, and hath cast off all pity, and hath carried on his fury, and hath kept his wrath to the end.

⁴ 2 I will send a fire into Theman: and it shall devour the houses of Bosra.

⁵ 3 Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of the children of Ammon, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath ripped up the women with child of Galaad to enlarge his border.

⁶ 4 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabba: and it shall devour the houses thereof with shouting in the day of battle, and with a whirlwind in the day of trouble.

⁷ 5 And Melchom shall go into captivity, both he, and his princes together, saith the Lord.

⁸ Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath burnt the bones of the king of Edom even to ashes.

⁹ And I will seed a fire into Moab, and it shall devour the houses of Carioth: and Moab shall die with a noise, with the sound of the trumpet:

¹⁰ And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all his princes with him, saith the Lord.

¹¹ Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Juda, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath cast away the law of the Lord, and hath not kept his commandments: for their idols have caused them to err, after which their fathers have walked.

¹² And I will send a fire into Juda, and it shall devour the houses of Jerusalem.

¹³ Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath sold the just man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of shoes.

¹⁴ They bruise the heads of the poor upon the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the humble: and the son and his father have gone to the same young woman, to profane my holy name.

¹⁵ And they sat down upon garments laid to pledge by every altar: and drank the wine of the condemned in the house of their God.