1 Thus says Yahweh: For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime: WEB — Amos 2:1
2 but I will send a fire on Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet; WEB — Amos 2:2
3 and I will cut off the judge from the midst of it, and will kill all the princes of it with him, says Yahweh. WEB — Amos 2:3
4 Thus says Yahweh: For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it; because they have rejected the law of Yahweh, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, after which their fathers did walk: WEB — Amos 2:4
5 but I will send a fire on Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. WEB — Amos 2:5
6 Thus says Yahweh: For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes WEB — Amos 2:6
7 those who pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the humble: and a man and his father go to the [same] maiden, to profane my holy name: WEB — Amos 2:7
8 and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined. WEB — Amos 2:8
9 Yet destroyed I 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. WEB — Amos 2:9
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. WEB — Amos 2:10
11 I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not even thus, you children of Israel? says Yahweh. WEB — Amos 2:11
12 But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, Don't prophesy. WEB — Amos 2:12
13 Behold, I will press [you] in your place, as a cart presses that is full of sheaves. WEB — Amos 2:13
14 Flight shall perish from the swift; and the strong shall not strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself; WEB — Amos 2:14
15 neither shall he stand who handles the bow; and he who is swift of foot shall not deliver [himself]; neither shall he who rides the horse deliver himself; WEB — Amos 2:15
16 and he who is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, says Yahweh. WEB — Amos 2:16