Amos 1 in plain modern English. New Ground English Translation.

The words of Amos, one of the sheep men of Tekoa, and what he saw about Israel when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Joash was king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

He said: Yahweh roars from Zion, from Jerusalem he lifts his voice, and the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel dries up.

This is what Yahweh says: For three crimes of Damascus, and for four, I will not take it back. They threshed Gilead with iron sledges.

So I will send fire on the house of Hazael, and it will eat the strongholds of Ben-Hadad.

I will break the bar of the gate of Damascus, and cut down whoever sits on the throne in the Valley of Aven and the one who holds the staff in Beth Eden, and the people of Aram will go into exile to Kir, says Yahweh.

This is what Yahweh says: For three crimes of Gaza, and for four, I will not take it back. They carried off a whole community into exile and sold them to Edom.

So I will send fire on the wall of Gaza, and it will eat her strongholds.

I will cut down whoever sits on the throne in Ashdod and the one who holds the staff in Ashkelon. I will turn my hand against Ekron, and the last of the Philistines will die, says the Master Yahweh.

This is what Yahweh says: For three crimes of Tyre, and for four, I will not take it back. They handed a whole community over to Edom and forgot the pact between brothers.

So I will send fire on the wall of Tyre, and it will eat her strongholds.

This is what Yahweh says: For three crimes of Edom, and for four, I will not take it back. He chased his brother with a sword and smothered all pity, his anger tore on and on and he kept his fury alive for good.

So I will send fire on Teman, and it will eat the strongholds of Bozrah.

This is what Yahweh says: For three crimes of the Ammonites, and for four, I will not take it back. They cut open the pregnant women of Gilead to widen their own border.

So I will send fire on the wall of Rabbah, and it will eat her strongholds, with a war cry on the day of battle, with a gale on the day of the storm.

Their king will go into exile, he and his officials together, says Yahweh.