Amos 2

2Thus says the Lord:

^a“For three transgressions of Moab, and for four,

I will not turn away its punishment,

Because he ^bburned the bones of the king of Edom to lime.

²But I will send a fire upon Moab,

And it shall devour the palaces of ^cKerioth;

Moab shall die with tumult,

With shouting and trumpet sound.

³And I will cut off ^dthe judge from its midst,

And slay all its princes with him,”

Says the Lord.

Judgment on Judah

⁴Thus says the Lord:

“For three transgressions of ^eJudah, and for four,

I will not turn away its punishment,

^fBecause they have despised the law of the Lord,

And have not kept His commandments.

^gTheir lies lead them astray,

Lies ^hwhich their fathers followed.

⁵ⁱBut I will send a fire upon Judah,

And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.”

Judgment on Israel

⁶Thus says the Lord:

“For three transgressions of ^jIsrael, and for four,

I will not turn away its punishment,

Because ^kthey sell the righteous for silver,

And the ^lpoor for a pair of sandals.

⁷They ¹pant after the dust of the earth which is on the head of the poor,

And ^mpervert the way of the humble.

ⁿA man and his father go in to the same girl,

^oTo defile My holy name.

⁸They lie down ^pby every altar on clothes ^qtaken in pledge,

And drink the wine of ²the condemned in the house of their god.

⁹“Yet it was I who destroyed the ^rAmorite before them,

Whose height was like the ^sheight of the cedars,

And he was as strong as the oaks;

Yet I ^tdestroyed his fruit above

And his roots beneath.

¹⁰Also it was ^uI who brought you up from the land of Egypt,

And ^vled you forty years through the wilderness,

To possess the land of the Amorite.

¹¹I raised up some of your sons as ^wprophets,

And some of your young men as ^xNazirites.

Is it not so, O you children of Israel?”

Says the Lord.

¹²“But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink,

And commanded the prophets ^ysaying,

‘Do not prophesy!’

¹³“Behold, ^zI am ³weighed down by you,

As a cart full of sheaves ⁴is weighed down.

^14aTherefore ⁵flight shall perish from the swift,

The strong shall not strengthen his power,

^bNor shall the mighty ⁶deliver himself;

¹⁵He shall not stand who handles the bow,

The swift of foot shall not ⁷escape,

Nor shall he who rides a horse deliver himself.

¹⁶The most ⁸courageous men of might

Shall flee naked in that day,”

Says the Lord.