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Amos 1:2-4
New Catholic Bible
Amos 1:2-4
New Catholic Bible
2 He said:
“The Lord roars from Zion,
and his name thunders forth from Jerusalem.
The pastures of the shepherds will wither
and the summit of Carmel will be arid.”
For Three Crimes of Damascus
3 [a]These are the words of the Lord:
For three crimes of Damascus, and for four,
I will not revoke my decree.
Because they threshed Gilead
with threshing-sledges of iron,
4 I will send fire on the house of Hazael,
and it will devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.[b]
Footnotes
- Amos 1:3 In the course of liturgical celebrations, the prophets often cursed the enemies of Israel. In the curses uttered by Amos, God judges the peoples, not on the basis of Israel’s interests, but in the name of a morality that obliges all human groups. Amos’s ethical sense is exemplary.
- Amos 1:4 Hazael . . . Ben-hadad: Kings of Damascus (see 2 Ki 8:7-15; 13:3).
