Amos Chapter 2
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 ![]() |
2:2 | 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: |
2:3 | And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD. |
2:4 | 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: |
2:5 | But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of ![]() |
2:6 | Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of ![]() |
2:7 | That pant after the dust of the ![]() |
2:8 | And they lay [themselves] down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they ![]() ![]() ![]() |
2:9 | 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. |
2:10 | 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. |
2:11 | 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 ![]() |
2:12 | But ye gave the Nazarites ![]() ![]() |
2:13 | Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed [that is] full of sheaves. |
2:14 | Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself: |
2:15 | Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and [he that is] swift of ![]() |
2:16 | And [he that is] courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that ![]() |