Amos 2

Amos 2

¹Thus says Yahweh:

“For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four,

I will not turn away its punishment;

because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime;

²but I will send a fire on Moab,

and it will devour the palaces of Kerioth;

and Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet;

³and I will cut off the judge from their midst,

and will kill all its princes with him,”

says Yahweh.

⁴Thus says Yahweh:

“For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four,

I will not turn away its punishment;

because they have rejected Yahweh’s law,

and have not kept his statutes,

and their lies have led them astray,

after which their fathers walked;

⁵But I will send a fire on Judah,

and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem.”

⁶Thus says Yahweh:

“For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four,

I will not turn away its punishment;

because they have sold the righteous for silver,

and the needy for a pair of shoes;

⁷They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor,

and deny justice to the oppressed;

and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

⁸and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge;

and in the house of their God * they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

⁹Yet I destroyed 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.

¹⁰Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt,

and led you forty years in the wilderness,

to possess the land of the Amorite.

¹¹I raised up some of your sons for prophets,

and some of your young men for Nazirites.

Isn’t this true,

you children of Israel?” says Yahweh.

¹²“But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink,

and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Don’t prophesy!’

¹³Behold, I will crush you in your place,

as a cart crushes that is full of grain.

¹⁴Flight will perish from the swift;

and the strong won’t strengthen his force;

neither shall the mighty deliver himself;

¹⁵neither shall he stand who handles the bow;

and he who is swift of foot won’t escape;

neither shall he who rides the horse deliver himself;

¹⁶and he who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked on that day,”

says Yahweh.