THE BOOK OF AMOS

 

Amos Chapter 2

1 ¶ Thus says the LORD; For three crimes of Moab, and for four, I will not take away its punishment; because they burned the bones of the king of Edom to make lime:

2 But I will send a fire on Moab, and it will consume the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab will die in battle, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:

3 And I will destroy the ruler in their midst, and will slay all its princes with him, says the LORD.

4 Thus says the LORD; For three crimes of Judah, and for four, I will not take away its punishment; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and the lies that their ancestors believed have led them astray:

5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it will consume the palaces of Jerusalem.

6 Thus says the LORD; For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not take away its punishment; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;

7 They trample the heads of the poor on the dust of the ground, and wrong those who are meek: and a man and his father will go in to the same maid, to profane my holy name:

8 And beside every altar they lay clothes taken as a pledge, and in the house of their god they drink the wine of the condemned.

9 ¶ Yet I destroyed the Amorites before them, who stood tall like the cedars, and were strong like oaks; I destroyed their fruit from above, and their roots from below.

10 I also brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you through the wilderness for forty years, that you might possess the land of the Amorites.

11 And I raised up some of your sons as prophets, and some of your young men as Nazarites. Is that not so, O you children of Israel? says the LORD.

12 But you made the Nazarites drink wine; and ordered the prophets to stop prophesying.

13 Behold, I am about to crush you, as grain is crushed under a cart that is full of sheaves.

14 Therefore the swift will fail to escape, the strong will not prevail by his strength, nor will the mighty be able to save himself:

15 The archer will not stand; he who is a fast runner will not get away: and he who rides a horse will not escape.

16 Even the most courageous among the mighty will run away naked on that day, says the LORD.