Amos 2

Thus says God, “For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn it back, because of his burning the bones of the king of Edom to lime. \* 2 And I will send a fire into Moab, and it will devour the citadels of Kerioth, and Moab will die in an uproar, with a war cry, with the sound of the shofar. 3 And I will cut off the judge from her midst, and all of her officials I will kill with him,” says God. \*

Thus says God, “For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn it back, because of their rejecting the law of God, and they did not keep his statutes, and their lies led them astray, which their fathers walked after them. 5 And I will send a fire into Judah, and it will devour the citadels of Jerusalem.” \*

Thus says God, “For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn it back, because of their selling the righteous for silver, and the needy in exchange for a pair of sandals, \* 7 the ones trampling on the head of the poor to the dust of the earth, and they turn aside the way of the afflicted, and a man and his father go to the girl, in order to profane the name of my holiness. 8 And on garments taken in pledge they stretch out beside every altar, and the wine of the fined {ones} they drink in the house of their God. \* 9 But I, I destroyed the Amorite from their faces, who like the height of cedars {was} his height, and he {was} strong as the oaks, and I destroyed his fruit from above and his roots from beneath. 10 And I, 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. \* 11 And I raised up from your sons as prophets, and from your young men as Nazirites. Is it not even so, sons of Israel?”—the declaration of God. 12 “But you made the Nazirites drink wine, and on the prophets you commanded, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy!’ \* 13 Behold, I am pressing down in your place, just as the cart presses down, the one that is full of sheaves for it. 14 And retreat will perish from the swift, and the strong will not strengthen his power, and the mighty will not save his life, \* 15 and the one grasping the bow will not stand, and the swift on his feet will not save {himself}, and the one riding the horse will not save his life. 16 And the strong of his heart among the mighty, naked he will flee in that day”—the declaration of God. \*