The Book of Amos

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Chapter 2

1: Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn awaythe punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom intolime:

2: But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:

3: And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith theLORD.

4: Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and havenot kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:

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

6: Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, andthe poor for a pair of shoes;

7: That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:

8: And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.

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.

10: Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through thewilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

11: And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.

12: But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

13: Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.

14: Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neithershall the mighty deliver himself:

15: Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.

16: And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.
Amos 3

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