The words of Amos, which came in Nakkarim, out of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Jerusalem in the days of Ozias king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joas king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
And he said: The Lord uttered from Zion, and from Jerusalem he gave forth his voice; and the pastures of the shepherds mourned, and the summit of Carmel withered.
And the Lord said: For three impieties of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away from it, because they sawed with iron saws the pregnant women of those in Gilead.
And I will shatter the bars of Damascus, and utterly destroy those who dwell in the plain of On, and cut off a tribe from the men of Charran; and the summoned people of Syria shall be taken captive, says the Lord.
Thus says the Lord: For three impieties of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away from them, because they carried captive the captivity of Salomon, to shut them up in Idumea.
And I will utterly destroy those who dwell in Azotus, and a tribe shall be removed from Ascalon; and I will bring my hand upon Akkaron, and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, says the Lord.
Thus says the Lord: For three impieties of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn away from her, because they shut up the captivity of Salomon in Idumea, and did not remember the covenant of brothers.
Thus says the Lord: For three impieties of Idumea, and for four, I will not turn away from them, because they pursued their brother with the sword and ruined the womb upon the earth; and he seized his horror as a testimony, and kept his fury unto victory.
Thus says the Lord: For three impieties of the sons of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away from him, because they ripped open the pregnant women of the Gileadites, that they might enlarge their borders.
And I will kindle fire upon the walls of Rabba, and it shall devour her foundations, with shouting in a day of war; and she shall be shaken in the day of her consummation.