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Amos Chapter 2 (NRSVCE)

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¹ Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; [1] because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom.

² So I will send a fire on Moab, and it shall devour the strongholds of Kerioth, and Moab shall die amid uproar, amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet;

³ I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and will kill all its officials with him, — says the LORD.

⁴ Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; [2] because they have rejected the law of the LORD, and have not kept his statutes, but they have been led astray by the same lies after which their ancestors walked.

⁵ So I will send a fire on Judah, and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.

⁶ Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; [3] because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals —

⁷ they who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth, and push the afflicted out of the way; father and son go in to the same girl, so that my holy name is profaned;

⁸ they lay themselves down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink wine bought with fines they imposed.

⁹ Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of cedars, and who was as strong as oaks; I destroyed his fruit above, and his roots beneath.

¹⁰ Also 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.

¹¹ And I raised up some of your children to be prophets and some of your youths to be nazirites. [4] Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel? — says the LORD.

¹² But you made the nazirites [5] drink wine, and commanded the prophets, saying, “You shall not prophesy.”

¹³ So, I will press you down in your place, just as a cart presses down when it is full of sheaves. [6]

¹⁴ Flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not retain their strength, nor shall the mighty save their lives;

¹⁵ those who handle the bow shall not stand, and those who are swift of foot shall not save themselves, nor shall those who ride horses save their lives;

¹⁶ and those who are stout of heart among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, — says the LORD.

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1	Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; [1] because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom.
2	So I will send a fire on Moab, and it shall devour the strongholds of Kerioth, and Moab shall die amid uproar, amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet;
3	I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and will kill all its officials with him, — says the LORD.
4	Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; [2] because they have rejected the law of the LORD, and have not kept his statutes, but they have been led astray by the same lies after which their ancestors walked.
5	So I will send a fire on Judah, and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.
6	Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; [3] because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals —
7	they who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth, and push the afflicted out of the way; father and son go in to the same girl, so that my holy name is profaned;
8	they lay themselves down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink wine bought with fines they imposed.
9	Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of cedars, and who was as strong as oaks; I destroyed his fruit above, and his roots beneath.
10	Also 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.
11	And I raised up some of your children to be prophets and some of your youths to be nazirites. [4] Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel? — says the LORD.
12	But you made the nazirites [5] drink wine, and commanded the prophets, saying, “You shall not prophesy.”
13	So, I will press you down in your place, just as a cart presses down when it is full of sheaves. [6]
14	Flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not retain their strength, nor shall the mighty save their lives;
15	those who handle the bow shall not stand, and those who are swift of foot shall not save themselves, nor shall those who ride horses save their lives;
16	and those who are stout of heart among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, — says the LORD.

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