⁴ Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheepbreeder, and he ^(A)regularly paid the king of Israel one hundred thousand ^(B)lambs and the wool of one hundred thousand rams.

Judgments on Israel’s Neighbors

1 The words of Amos, who was among the ^(A)sheepbreeders of ^(B)Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of ^(C)Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of ^(D)Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the ^(E)earthquake.

^5 (A)But he will say, ‘I am no prophet, I am a farmer; for a man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.’