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Amos 1:1-2:5

The LORD Will Roar from Zion

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The LORD Will Roar from Zion

Amos 1:1-2:5

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This song belongs to the Amos collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.

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Amos
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Amos
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[Processional Chant] From Tekoa the shepherd heard thunder speak, For three transgressions, and for four, Zion gave voice and Carmel grew weak. The measure is full at the palace door. [Verse 1] Damascus had iron, Gaza traded lives, Tyre broke a covenant for profit and pride. Edom kept anger, Ammon widened the grave, [Bridge] Moab mocked bones that could no longer answer. Judah had law but despised what it said, [Chorus] For three transgressions, and for four, The measure is full at the palace door. Followed old lies while the altar still burned. The roar crosses borders, no nation is hidden, [Verse 2] Power does not sanctify what cruelty has done. Fire reaches walls where injustice was stored, The LORD will roar, and the earth hears the LORD. [Final Chorus] For three transgressions, and for four, The measure is full at the palace door. The roar crosses borders, no nation is hidden, The LORD will roar, and the earth hears the LORD.

Named in this songZionCarmelDamascus

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Amos 1: A roar that crosses national borders

A roar from Zion opens the Book of Amos before any nation has been named, and its effects already reach shepherd country and Carmel. The chapter then turns outward through Damascus, Gaza, Tyre, Edom, and Ammon. Each oracle keeps the same accumulating rhythm while changing the offense under examination: Gilead treated like a threshing floor, whole captive populations delivered away, covenant obligations forgotten, brotherhood answered with relentless wrath, and pregnant women killed for the sake of a larger border. The repetition refuses to make any one people’s suffering disposable. Palaces, walls, rulers, and territorial gains all look solid until the accusation reaches them. Israel is still waiting outside the direct address, but the chapter has already established a dangerous principle: the LORD’s judgment crosses the borders that human power uses to organize responsibility.

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Amos 2: The accusation arrives at Israel's own door

The circle tightens. Moab is judged for violence against the dead, Judah receives the same repeated formula for despising the LORD’s law, and then the chapter settles on Israel with far more detail. The righteous and poor can be priced in silver and shoes, pledged garments become furniture beside altars, and religious comfort is built from condemned people’s losses. Against that conduct, the LORD recalls what Israel did not create for itself: the defeat of the Amorite, deliverance from Egypt, wilderness guidance, prophets, and Nazarites. Those gifts were answered by making Nazarites drink and ordering prophets not to speak. The final verses strip away every familiar military advantage. Speed, strength, bows, horses, and courage are all named and denied their usual result. Privilege and preparedness offer no exception to the accusation.

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