Amos 1:2

And He said, speaking to Amos in a vision, by a special revelation of the Lord, The Lord will roar from Zion and utter His voice from Jerusalem, Cf Joel 3:16; and the habitations of the shepherds, the pastures where they fed their flocks, shall mourn, and the top of Carmel, the mountain by the sea, with its forested summit, shall wither, so that the whole land, from north to south, would be included in the punishment. From the outset the purpose of the message of Amos was to call the sinners to repentance and to oppose the foolish notion as though the judgment of God would strike the heathen world only, although the various nations in the. neighborhood are enumerated first, in an introductory series of prophecies.