Amos 2
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Amos

Judgment on Moab, Judah, and Israel

1Yahweh says: “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 among them, and will kill all its princes with him,” says Yahweh.+ 4Yahweh says: “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.”+ 6Yahweh says: “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.+
Footnotes (2)
  1. a 2:8 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).
  2. b 2:13 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

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