| Preface | vii |
| I. | Introduction | 1 |
| 1. | The time | 1 |
| 2. | The prophet | 3 |
| 3. | The sayings | 4 |
| 4. | The message | 6 |
| 5. | The book | 12 |
| Abbreviations | 15 |
| Bibliography | 16 |
| II. | Commentary | 18 |
| 1. | The title: 1.1 | 18 |
| 2. | The voice of Yahweh: 1.2 | 20 |
| 3. | Oracles against the nations: 1.3-2.16 | 22 |
| (a) | Against Damascus: 1.3-5 | 28 |
| (b) | Against the Philistines: 1.6-8 | 32 |
| (c) | Against Tyre: 1.9-10 | 33 |
| (d) | Against Edom: 1.11-12 | 35 |
| (e) | Against Ammon: 1.13-15 | 36 |
| (f) | Against Moab: 2.1-3 | 38 |
| (g) | Against Judah: 2.4-5 | 40 |
| (h) | Against Israel: 2.6-16 | 42 |
| 4. | Election to judgment: 3.1-2 | 54 |
| 5. | The word is the work of Yahweh: 3.3-8 | 58 |
| 6. | Oppression within brings plundering from without: 3.9-11 | 62 |
| 7. | Your deliverance will prove the death of you: 3.12 | 66 |
| 8. | The fall of the house of Jacob: 3.13-15 | 68 |
| 9. | The ladies of Samaria: 4.1-3 | 71 |
| 10. | Worship that is rebellion: 4.4-5 | 73 |
| 11. | The broken quest: 4.6-13 Note: The hymnic sections in Amos | 76 |
| 12. | Funeral rites for the nation: 5.1-3 | 84 |
| 13. | The Holy One, not the holy place: 5.4-6 | 86 |
| 14. | Man's injustice brings God's justice: 5.7, 10-11 | 90 |
| 15. | Lord of heaven and history: 5.8-9 | 95 |
| 16. | Your future is a funeral: 5.12-13, 16-17 | 96 |
| 17. | Not every one who says 'Lord, Lord': 5.14-15 | 99 |
| 18. | The day of Yahweh: 5.18-20 | 102 |
| 19. | The hated worship: 5.21-24 | 105 |
| 20. | Sacrifice will not save you: 5.25-27 | 110 |
| 21. | The affluent society: 6.1-7 | 113 |
| 22. | The wrath of God: 6.8-11 | 117 |
| 23. | The absurd happens in Israel: 6.12 | 120 |
| 24. | They who live by the sword: 6.13-14 | 121 |
| 25. | Vision and reality: 7.1-8.3 | 123 |
| (a) | The locust swarm: 7.1-3 | 127 |
| (b) | The divine fire: 7.4-6 | 130 |
| (c) | The plumb line: 7.7-9 | 131 |
| (d) | Prophet, priest and king: 7.10-17 | 133 |
| (e) | The basket of late fruit: 8.1-3 | 140 |
| 26. | Never on Sunday: 8.4-8 | 142 |
| 27. | Gloom and grief: 8.9-10 | 146 |
| 28. | Not by bread alone: 8.11-14 | 147 |
| 29. | No hiding place: 9.1-6 | 151 |
| 30. | The freedom of Yahweh: 9.7-8 | 156 |
| 31. | God's sieve is his sword: 9.9-10 | 160 |
| 32. | The resurrection of the kingdom: 9.11-12 | 163 |
| 33. | Prosperity and peace: 9.13-15 | 165 |
