But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, And it will devour its palaces."
Now so often we read at the beginning of a book, "The word of the Lord which came to the prophet saying..." But Amos doesn't say, "This is the word of the Lord," he says, "These are the words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw." So it puts, of course, the divine attestation upon it here, "which he saw." So Amos saw these visions from the Lord and he saw them concerning the Northern Kingdom of Israel. And these visions came to him,