Amos עָמוֹס

Amos, a herdman of Tekoa and a dresser of sycamore-trees — 'no prophet, neither a prophet's son' — is taken from following the flock to thunder at the prosperous northern kingdom of Jeroboam son of Joash: 'Hashem roars from Zion.' Circling through the nations — Damascus, Gaza, Tyre, Edom, Ammon, Moab, 'for three transgressions, and for four' — the judgment lands at last on Israel itself, chosen and therefore accountable: 'You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will visit upon you all your iniquities.' Amos indicts the trampling of the needy, the beds of ivory, the feasts Hashem hates while justice is turned to wormwood: 'Let justice well up as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.' Visions of locusts, fire, the plumbline, and the basket of summer fruit carry the end ever closer, through the collision with Amaziah priest of Beth-el, to the final promise: the fallen tabernacle of David raised up, and Israel planted upon their land, no more to be plucked up. This volume presents the complete Hebrew text with English translation, a word-by-word interlinear layer with transliteration, roots, and gematria, and the classic commentaries of Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Radak, Metzudat David, Metzudat Zion, Malbim, and Abarbanel, newly translated into English.