Amos 1:2-4

New International Reader's Version

“The Lord roars like a lion from Jerusalem.
    His voice sounds like thunder from Zion.
The grasslands of the shepherds turn brown.
    The top of Mount Carmel dries up.”

“The people of Damascus have sinned again and again.
    So I will judge them.
They used threshing sleds with iron teeth
    to crush Gilead’s people.
⁴ So I will send fire to destroy the palace of King Hazael.
    It will burn up the forts of his son Ben-Hadad.