Amos 2
1. Thus saith * the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away * the punishment thereof; because he burned * the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
2. But I will send * a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour * the palaces of Kerioth: 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 * the LORD.
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 have not 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, and the 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 the wilderness, 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, neither shall 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.
