1. This message was given to Amos, a shepherd from the town of Tekoa in Judah. He received this message in visions two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam II, the son of Jehoash, was king of Israel.
2. This is what he saw and heard:“The lord’s voice will roar from Zionand thunder from Jerusalem!The lush pastures of the shepherds will dry up;the grass on Mount Carmel will wither and die.”
3. This is what the lord says:“The people of Damascus have sinned again and again,and I will not let them go unpunished!They beat down my people in Gileadas grain is threshed with iron sledges.