Amos 2

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Judgment on Moab, Judah, and Israel

¹This is what the LORD says:

“For three transgressions of Moab, even four,

I will not revoke My judgment,^a

because he burned to lime

the bones of Edom’s king.

¹Thus says YHWH: “Over three transgressions of Moab, even over four, I will not turn back—over his burning the bones of the king of Edom to lime!

²So 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.

²And I will send a fire on Moab, and it will devour the citadels of Kerioth; and Moab will die with a roar, with shouting, with the voice of the shofar.

³I will cut off the ruler of Moab

and kill all the officials with him,”

says the LORD.

³And I will cut off the judge from her midst, and all her princes I will kill with him,” says YHWH.

⁴This 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.

⁴Thus says YHWH: “Over three transgressions of Judah, even over four, I will not turn back—over their rejecting the law of YHWH, and they did not keep His commandments, and their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers have walked!

⁵So I will send fire upon Judah

to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.”

⁵And I will send a fire on Judah, and it will devour the citadels of Jerusalem.”

⁶This 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.

⁶Thus says YHWH: “Over three transgressions of Israel, even over four, I will not turn back—over their selling the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals.

⁷They 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.

⁷They pant after the dust of the earth on the heads of the poor, out of their way they stretch aside the humble, and a man and his father go into the same girl, in order to defile the name of My holiness.

⁸They lie down beside every altar

on garments taken in pledge.

And in the house of their God,^a

they drink wine obtained through fines.^b

⁸And on clothes taken in pledge they stretch out beside every altar, and the wine of those having been fined they drink in the house of their God.

⁹Yet 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.

⁹And I—I have destroyed the Amorite before their faces, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the Oaks; and I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.

¹⁰And 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.

¹⁰And I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and I led you in the wilderness forty years, to possess the land of the Amorite.

¹¹I raised up prophets from your sons

and Nazirites from your young men.

Is this not true,

O children of Israel?”

declares the LORD.

¹¹And I raised up some of your sons as prophets, and some of your young men as Nazirites. Indeed, Is it not thus, O sons of Israel?” An utterance of YHWH.

¹²“But you made the Nazirites drink wine

and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.

¹²“And the Nazirites you made to drink wine, and regarding the prophets you commanded, saying, ‘You will not prophesy.’

¹³Behold, I am about to crush you in your place

as with a cart full of grain.

¹³Behold, I am going to press you under, as a cart full of sheaves presses down.

¹⁴Escape will fail the swift,

the strong will not prevail by his strength,

and the mighty will not save his life.

¹⁴And flight will perish from the swift, and the strong will not strengthen his power, and the mighty will not deliver his soul.

¹⁵The archer will not stand his ground,

the fleet of foot will not escape,

and the horseman will not save his life.

¹⁵And the one handling the bow will not stand, and the one swift in his feet will not escape, and the one riding a horse will not deliver his soul;

¹⁶Even the bravest of mighty men

will flee naked on that day,”

declares the LORD.

¹⁶and the strong in his heart among the mighty ones will flee naked on that day,” a declaration of YHWH.