God calls a Judean shepherd named Amos to confront the wrongdoing of the people of Israel, offering them one more chance before they face God's judgement.

Northern Israel had conquered other nations and enjoyed its recent successes, but they were spiritually bankrupt. Worshiping local pagan gods twisted their moral perceptions, and the people of Israel infamously cheated, stole, and sold their poor into slavery in foreign lands. God is grieved by the evils he sees the people of Israel doing, but he mercifully offers them another chance to change their ways.