Amos
2:1 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I
will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones
of the king of Edom into lime:
2:2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of
Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the
sound of the trumpet:
2:3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all
the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.
2:4 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I
will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised
the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies
caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
2:5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of
Jerusalem.
2:6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I
will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the
righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
2:7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn
aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the
same maid, to profane my holy name:
2:8 And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar,
and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
2:9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the
height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his
fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
2:10 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years
through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
2:11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for
Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.
2:12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets,
saying, Prophesy not.
2:13 Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of
sheaves.
2:14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall
not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
2:15 Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of
foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse
deliver himself.
2:16 And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that
day, saith the LORD.
