Amos 2

Revised Geneva Translation

2 “Thus says the LORD: ‘For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn to it, because it burnt the bones of the king of Edom into lime.

² ‘Therefore 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 a trumpet.

³ ‘And I will cut off the judge out of the midst thereof; and will slay all the princes thereof with him,’ says the LORD.

⁴ “Thus says the LORD: ‘For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn to it. Because they have cast away the Law of the LORD and have not kept His Commandments. And their lies caused them to err, after which their fathers have walked.

⁵ ‘Therefore I will send a fire upon Judah. And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.’

⁶ “Thus says the LORD: ‘For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn to it. Because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for shoes.

⁷ ‘They gape over the head of the poor, in the dust of the Earth, and pervert the ways of the meek. And a man and his father will go in to a maid, to dishonor My Holy Name.

⁸ ‘And they lie down by every altar, upon pledged clothes. And they drink the wine of the condemned in the House of their God.

⁹ ‘Yet I destroyed 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 root 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 your young men for Nazirites. Is it not even so, O children of Israel,’ says the LORD?

¹² ‘But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the Prophets, saying, “Do not Prophesy.”

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. Nor shall the mighty save his life;

¹⁵ ‘nor shall he who handles the bow stand. And he who is swift of foot shall not escape. Nor shall he who rides the horse save his life.

¹⁶ ‘And he who is of a mighty courage among the strong men shall flee away naked on that day,’ says the LORD.”