This research studies the relationship between Israel s transgressions and their effects on nature, according to the book of Amos. Natural disturbances, such as earthquake, drought, solar eclipse and flood, occur throughout the book in contexts of threat of divine punishment, due to the transgressions of the people. The relationship between Israel s sins and cosmic upheavals is well established in Am 8,4-14, a text from which this work seeks to understand precisely what the nation s sins are and what relationship they have with cosmic disturbances. After that, this research studies other texts in the book that also deal with convulsions in the cosmos and that have a thematic or vocabulary relationship with Am 8,4-14: Am 1,1.2; 2.13; 4.6-8.13; 5.8 and 9.1.5-6. The work used the critical historical method in the study of these texts. The good land that YHWH granted for everyone to share in its fruits became a scene of injustice: through deceitful scales, merchants became richer at the expense of the impoverishment and enslavement of small peasants. The social order and the cosmic order are connected, and so the evil practiced in Israel, echoes in the land, in the sky and in the sea: tremors in the ground, drought, darkness and flood come upon those who reject the divine word. YHWH, creator and king of the universe, commands the cosmos and it turns against the transgressing nation. These upheavals in the cosmos are metaphors the book uses to portray the chaos that the nation will become if YHWH removes his word from the nation of Israel.