Isa 34:8, 59:18, 65:5-7, Joe 3:7-16, Amo 1:2-2:16 | ESV | STEP | For the Lord has a day of vengeance , a year of recompense for the cause of Zion .

5 who say, “Keep to yourself,
do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.”
^dThese are a smoke in my nostrils,
a fire that burns all the day.
6 Behold, ^eit is written before me:
^f“I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
^gI will indeed repay into their lap
7 both your iniquities ^hand your fathers’ iniquities together,

says the Lord;
ⁱbecause they made offerings on the mountains
^jand insulted me on the hills,
I will measure into their lap
payment for their former deeds.” ^{▼▼Or I will first measure their payment into their lap}

Joel 3:7-16

7 Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and ^lI will return your payment on your own head. 8 I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the ^mSabeans, to a nation far away, for the Lord has spoken.”

9 Proclaim this among the nations:
ⁿConsecrate for war; ^{▼▼Or Consecrate a war}
stir up the mighty men.
Let all the men of war draw near;
let them come up.
10 ^pBeat your plowshares into swords,
and ^qyour pruning hooks into spears;
let the weak say, “I am a warrior.”
11 ^rHasten and come,
all you surrounding nations,
and gather yourselves there.
^sBring down your warriors, O Lord.
12 Let the nations stir themselves up
and come up to ^tthe Valley of Jehoshaphat;
^ufor there I will sit to judge
all the surrounding nations.
13 ^vPut in the sickle,
^wfor the harvest is ripe.
^xGo in, tread,
^yfor the winepress is full.
The vats overflow,
for their evil is great.
14 Multitudes, multitudes,
in the valley of decision!
For ^zthe day of the Lord is near
in the valley of decision.
15 ^aaThe sun and the moon are darkened,
and the stars withdraw their shining.
16 ^abThe Lord roars from Zion,
and ^acutters his voice from Jerusalem,
^adand the heavens and the earth quake.
But the Lord is ^aea refuge to his people,
a stronghold to the people of Israel.

Amos 1:2-15

Judgment on Israel’s Neighbors

2 And he said:

^af“The Lord roars from Zion
and utters his voice from Jerusalem;
^agthe pastures of the shepherds mourn,
and the ^ahtop of ^aiCarmel withers.”
3 Thus says the Lord:

^aj“For three transgressions of ^akDamascus,
and for four, ^alI will not revoke the punishment, ^{▼▼Hebrew I will not turn it back; also verses 6, 9, 11, 13}
because they have threshed ^anGilead
with threshing sledges of iron.
4 ^aoSo I will send a fire upon the house of ^apHazael,
and it shall devour the strongholds of ^aqBen-hadad.
5 I will ^arbreak the gate-bar of ^asDamascus,
and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of ^atAven, ^{▼▼Or On}
and him who holds the scepter from ^avBeth-eden;
and the people of ^awSyria shall go into exile to ^axKir,”

says the Lord.
6 Thus says the Lord:

^ay“For three transgressions of ^azGaza,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because ^bathey carried into exile a whole people
to deliver them up to Edom.
7 So I will send a fire upon the wall of ^bbGaza,
and it shall devour her strongholds.
8 I will cut off the inhabitants from ^bcAshdod,
and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon;
I will turn my hand against Ekron,
and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,”

says the Lord God.
9 Thus says the Lord:

^bd“For three transgressions of ^beTyre,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because they delivered up a whole people to Edom,
and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.
10 So I will send a fire upon the wall of ^bfTyre,
and it shall devour her strongholds.”
11 Thus says the Lord:

^bg“For three transgressions of ^bhEdom,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
^bibecause he pursued his brother with the sword
^bjand cast off all pity,
^bkand his anger tore perpetually,
^bland he kept his wrath forever.
12 So I will send a fire upon ^bmTeman,
and it shall devour the strongholds of ^bnBozrah.”
13 Thus says the Lord:

^bo“For three transgressions of the ^bpAmmonites,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because ^bqthey have ripped open pregnant women in ^brGilead,
that they might enlarge their border.
14 So I will kindle a fire in the wall of ^bsRabbah,
^btand it shall devour her strongholds,
with shouting on the day of battle,
^buwith a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;
15 and ^bvtheir king shall go into exile,
he and his princes ^{▼▼Or officials} together,”

says the Lord.

Amos 2

1 Thus says the Lord:

^bx“For three transgressions of ^byMoab,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, ^{▼▼Hebrew I will not turn it back; also verses 4, 6}
because ^cahe burned to lime
the bones of the king of Edom.
2 So I will send a fire upon Moab,
and it shall devour the strongholds of ^cbKerioth,
and Moab shall die amid uproar,
amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet;
3 ^ccI will cut off the ruler from its midst,
and will kill ^cdall its princes ^{▼▼Or officials} with him,”

says the Lord.

Judgment on Judah

4 Thus says the Lord:

^cf“For three transgressions of Judah,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because ^cgthey have rejected the law of the Lord,
and have not kept his statutes,
but ^chtheir lies have led them astray,
those after which their fathers walked.
5 So ^ciI will send a fire upon Judah,
and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.”

Judgment on Israel

6 Thus says the Lord:

^cj“For three transgressions of Israel,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because ^ckthey sell the righteous for ^clsilver,
and the needy for a pair of sandals—
7 those who trample the head of the poor ^cminto the dust of the earth
and ^cnturn aside the way of the afflicted;
^coa man and his father go in to the same girl,
so that my holy name is profaned;
8 they lay themselves down beside every altar
on garments ^cptaken in pledge,
and in the house of their God they drink
the wine of those who have been fined.
9 “Yet ^cqit was I who destroyed the Amorite before them,
^crwhose height was like the height of the cedars
and who was as strong as the oaks;
^csI destroyed his fruit above
and his roots beneath.
10 ^ctAlso it was I who brought you up out of the land of Egypt
^cuand led you forty years in the wilderness,
^cvto possess the land of the Amorite.
11 And I raised up some of your sons for prophets,
and some of your young men for ^cwNazirites.
Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?”

declares the Lord.
12 “But you made the Nazirites ^cxdrink wine,
and commanded the prophets,
saying, ^cy‘You shall not prophesy.’
13 “Behold, I will press you down in your place,
as a cart full of sheaves presses down.
14 ^czFlight shall perish from the swift,
^daand the strong shall not retain his strength,
^dbnor shall the mighty save his life;
15 he who handles the bow shall not stand,
and he who is ^dcswift of foot shall not save himself,
^ddnor shall he who rides the horse save his life;
16 and he who is stout of heart among the mighty
shall flee away naked in that day,”

declares the Lord.