2 Accordingly Joʹab sent to Te·koʹa+ and took from there a wise+ woman and said to her: “Go in mourning, please, and dress yourself, please, with garments of mourning, and do not rub yourself with oil;+ and you must become like a woman here who has been mourning many days over someone dead.+

1 The words of Aʹmos, who happened to be among the sheep raisers from Te·koʹa,+ which he visioned concerning Israel+ in the days of Uz·ziʹah+ the king of Judah and in the days of Jer·o·boʹam+ the son of Joʹash,+ the king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.+