Amos 2

2The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing Moab^a

for three crimes, even four,

because he burned the bones

of the king of Edom to lime.^b

²Therefore, I will send fire against Moab,

and it will consume the citadels of Kerioth.^c

Moab will die with a tumult,^d

with shouting and the sound of the trumpet.

³I will cut off the judge^e from the land

and kill all its officials^f with him.

The Lord has spoken.

JUDGMENT ON JUDAH

⁴The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing Judah^g

for three crimes, even four,

because they have rejected the instruction of the Lord^h

and have not kept his statutes.ⁱ

The lies^j that their ancestors followed^k

have led them astray.

⁵Therefore, I will send fire^l against Judah,

and it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem.

JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL

⁶The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing Israel^m

for three crimes, even four,

because they sell a righteous person for silver

and a needy person for a pair of sandals.ⁿ

⁷They trample the heads of the poor^o

on the dust of the ground

and obstruct the path of the needy.^p

A man and his father have sexual relations

with the same girl,^q

profaning my holy name.^r

⁸They stretch out beside every altar^s

on garments taken as collateral,^t

and in the house of their God

they drink wine obtained through fines.^u

⁹Yet I destroyed the Amorite^v as Israel advanced;

his height^w was like the cedars,

and he was as sturdy as the oaks;

I destroyed his fruit^x above and his roots beneath.

¹⁰And I brought you from the land of Egypt^y

and led you forty years in the wilderness^z

in order to possess the land of the Amorite.^aa

¹¹I raised up some of your sons as prophets^ab

and some of your young men as Nazirites.^ac

Is this not the case, Israelites?

This is the Lord’s declaration.

¹²But you made the Nazirites drink wine

and commanded the prophets,

“Do not prophesy.”^ad

¹³Look, I am about to crush^A you in your place^ae

as a wagon crushes when full of grain.

¹⁴Escape will fail the swift,^af

the strong one will not maintain his strength,^ag

and the warrior will not save his life.

¹⁵The archer will not stand his ground,^ah

the one who is swift of foot

will not save himself,

and the one riding a horse will not save his life.^ai

¹⁶Even the most courageous of the warriors

will flee naked on that day^aj—

this is the Lord’s declaration.