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AMO 2:1
Amos 2:1
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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: |
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AMO 2:2
Amos 2:2
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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: |
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AMO 2:3
Amos 2:3
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And I will cut off the judge from the midst
thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD. |
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AMO 2:4
Amos 2:4
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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: |
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AMO 2:5
Amos 2:5
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But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall
devour the palaces of Jerusalem. |
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AMO 2:6
Amos 2:6
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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; |
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AMO 2:7
Amos 2:7
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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: |
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AMO 2:8
Amos 2:8
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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. |
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AMO 2:9
Amos 2:9
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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. |
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AMO 2:10
Amos 2:10
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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. |
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AMO 2:11
Amos 2:11
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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. |
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AMO 2:12
Amos 2:12
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But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and
commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not. |
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AMO 2:13
Amos 2:13
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Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is
pressed that is full of sheaves. |
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AMO 2:14
Amos 2:14
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Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift,
and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver
himself: |
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AMO 2:15
Amos 2:15
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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. |
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AMO 2:16
Amos 2:16
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And he that is courageous among the mighty shall
flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD. |
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