Amos 2

1 This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Moab, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he burned to lime the bones of Edom’s king.

Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath burnt the bones of the king of Edom even to ashes.

2 So I will send fire against Moab to consume the citadels of Kerioth. Moab will die in tumult, amid war cries and the sound of the ram’s horn.

And I will seed a fire into Moab, and it shall devour the houses of Carioth: and Moab shall die with a noise, with the sound of the trumpet:

3 I will cut off the ruler of Moab and kill all the officials with him,”

And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all his princes with him, saith the Lord.

4 This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked.

Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Juda, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath cast away the law of the Lord, and hath not kept his commandments: for their idols have caused them to err, after which their fathers have walked.

5 So I will send fire upon Judah to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.”

And I will send a fire into Juda, and it shall devour the houses of Jerusalem.

6 This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals.

Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath sold the just man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of shoes.

7 They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.

They bruise the heads of the poor upon the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the humble: and the son and his father have gone to the same young woman, to profane my holy name.

8 They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.

And they sat down upon garments laid to pledge by every altar: and drank the wine of the condemned in the house of their God.

9 Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.

Yet I cast out the Amorrhite before their face: whose height was like the height of cedars, and who was strong as an oak: and I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots beneath.

10 And I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, that you might take possession of the land of the Amorite.

It is I that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and I led you forty years through the wilderness, that you might possess the land of the Amorrhite.

11 I raised up prophets from your sons and Nazirites from your young men. Is this not true, O children of Israel?”

And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not so, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord?

12 “But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.

And you will present wine to the Nazarites: and command the prophets, saying: Prophesy not.

13 Behold, I am about to crush you in your place as with a cart full of grain.

Behold, I will screak under you as a wain screaketh that is laden with hay.

14 Escape will fail the swift, the strong will not prevail by his strength, and the mighty will not save his life.

And flight shall perish from the swift, and the valiant shall not possess his strength, neither shall the strong save his life.

15 The archer will not stand his ground, the fleet of foot will not escape, and the horseman will not save his life.

And he that holdeth the bow shall not stand, and the swift of foot shall not escape, neither shall the rider of the horse save his life.

16 Even the bravest of mighty men will flee naked on that day,”

And the stout of heart among the valiant shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.