1 The words of Amos, who was among the ^ashepherds¹ of ^bTekoa, which he saw concerning Israel ^cin the days of ^dUzziah king of Judah and in the days of ^eJeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years² before ^fthe earthquake.

5 but he will say, ^p‘I am no prophet, I am a worker of the soil, for a man sold me in my youth.’¹