Many of the utterances of Amos are about the coming judgement on Israel's continued disobedience and injustice. Some of the oracles refer generally to coming disaster but others are more specific.

 

2: 13-16 says that God will crush Israel; not even the fastest runners and the strongest soldiers will escape.

 

3: 11 says that an enemy will surround and destroy Israel's defenses and plunder the rich houses.

3: 12 describes vividly how only one or two survivors will be left of the people of Samaria, the capital city.

3: 14 says that the altars of the temple at Bethel will be smashed.

3: 15 says that the winter and summer houses of the rich, the houses decorated with ivory, will be destroyed.

4:2-3 foretells the dragging away into exile of the rich women of Samaria, as rubbish is dragged out of the city and thrown on to the rubbish dumps.

5: 1-3 first pictures Israel as a rejected girl who has been killed and left lying on the ground, then foretells the destruction of Israel's soldiers.

5: 6 describes the coming judgement as fire which cannot be put out.

5: 11 says that those who have become rich through injustice and exploitation of others will not enjoy their wealth.

5: 16-17 describes the mourning and sorrow that will be seen when the judgement comes.

5: 18-20 describes vividly how inescapable the judgement of God will be. 6: 9-11 describes first how whole families will be wiped out, and then refers to the smashing down of houses both large and small.

6: 14 says specifically that God will send a foreign army to occupy Israel and to oppress the land from the north to the south.

7: 7-9, the third vision, shows the inevitability of the judgement.

7: 17 describes the disaster that will fall on Amaziah the priest and his family, and ends with another prediction of exile for Israel.

8: 1-3 refers to death in the royal palace, at the end of the fourth vision. 8: 7-14 describes the misery and horror that will be experienced during the judgement.

9: 1-4, the fifth vision, foretells the destruction of the temple at Bethel, and the frantic but useless attempts of the people to hide from God.

From these various utterances, we understand that in the near future Israel would be attacked by an enemy who would bring terrible destruction to the land and the people. About thirty years later this enemy appeared, in the form of the armies of Assyria.