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Translated from the Latin Vulgate
Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,and Other Editions in Divers Languages
THE OLD TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Douay
A.D. 1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Rheims
A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared withthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard ChallonerA.D. 1749-1752
AMOS prophesied in Israel about the same time as Osee: and was calledfrom following the cattle to denounce GOD'S judgments to the people ofIsrael, and the neighbouring nations, for their repeated crimes, inwhich they continued without repentance.
Amos Chapter 1
The prophet threatens Damascus, Gaza, Tyre, Edom, and Ammon with thejudgments of God, for their obstinacy in sin.
1:1. The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Thecua: which hesaw concerning Israel in the days of Ozias king of Juda, and in the daysof Jeroboam the son of Joas king of Israel two years before theearthquake.
The earthquake… Many understand this of a great earthquake, which theysay was felt at the time that king Ozias attempted to offer incense inthe temple. But the best chronologists prove that the earthquake herespoken of must have been before that time: because Jeroboam the second,under whom Amos prophesied, was dead long before that attempt of Ozias.
1:2. And he said: The Lord will roar from Sion, and utter his voice fromJerusalem: and the beautiful places of the shepherds have mourned, andthe top of Carmel is withered.
1:3. Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Damascus, and for four Iwill not convert it: because they have thrashed Galaad with iron wains.
For three crimes-and for four… That is, for their many unrepented ofcrimes.-Ibid. I will not convert it… That is, I will not spare them,nor turn away the punishments I design to inflict upon them.
1:4. And I will send a fire into the house of Azael, and it shall devourthe houses of Benadad.
1:5. And I will break the bar of Damascus: and I will cut off theinhabitants from the plain of the idol, and him that holdeth the sceptrefrom the house of pleasure: and the people of Syria shall be carriedaway to Cyrene, saith the Lord.
1:6. Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Gaza, and for four I willnot convert it: because they have carried away a perfect captivity toshut them up in Edom.
1:7. And I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour thehouses thereof.
1:8. And I will cut off the inhabitant from Azotus, and him that holdeththe sceptre from Ascalon: and I will turn my hand against Accaron, andthe rest of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord God.
1:9. Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Tyre, and for four I willnot convert it: because they have shut up an entire captivity in Edom,and have not remembered the covenant of brethren.
1:10. And I will send a fire upon the wall o