The Bible

Amos Chapter 2

¹Thus says ForeverOne: "For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime; ²but I will send a fire on Moab, and it will devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet; ³and I will cut off the judge from their midst, and will kill all its princes with him," says ForeverOne.

⁴Thus says ForeverOne: "For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have rejected ForeverOne's law, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked; ⁵But I will send a fire on Judah, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem." ⁶Thus says ForeverOne: "For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; ⁷They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name; ⁸and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

⁹Yet 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 roots from beneath.

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

¹¹I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Isn't this true, you children of Israel?" says ForeverOne.

¹²"But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, 'Don't prophesy!' ¹³Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain.

¹⁴Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won't strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself; ¹⁵He who handles the bow won't stand. He who is swift of foot won't escape. He who rides the horse won't deliver himself.

¹⁶and he who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked on that day," says ForeverOne.