A shepherd with a message — justice for the poor, judgment for the comfortable.
"But let judgment run down as ______, and righteousness as a mighty stream."
Martin Luther King Jr. quoted Amos 5:24 in his 'I Have a Dream' speech — 'until justice rolls down like waters' — putting an eighth-century-BC shepherd on the Washington Mall.
Amos insisted, 'I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son' — just a herdman and a gatherer of sycomore fruit whom God pulled from the flock.
Amos preached famine — 'not a famine of bread... but of hearing the words of the LORD.' The scariest shortage in Scripture.
He aimed his hardest words at the comfortable — 'woe to them that are at ease in Zion' — proof that the prophets read bank statements too.