Amos 2
Judgment on Moab, Judah, and Israel
¹ This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Moab, even four, I will not revoke My judgment,1 because he burned to lime the bones of Edom’s king.
² So 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.
³ I will cut off the ruler of Moab and kill all the officials with him,” says the LORD.
⁴ This 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.
⁵ So I will send fire upon Judah to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.”
⁶ This 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.
⁷ They 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.
⁸ They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God,2 they drink wine obtained through fines.3
⁹ Yet 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.
¹⁰ And 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.
¹¹ I raised up prophets from your sons and Nazirites from your young men. Is this not true, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD.
¹² “But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.
¹³ Behold, I am about to crush you in your place as with a cart full of grain.
¹⁴ Escape will fail the swift, the strong will not prevail by his strength, and the mighty will not save his life.
¹⁵ The archer will not stand his ground, the fleet of foot will not escape, and the horseman will not save his life.
¹⁶ Even the bravest of mighty men will flee naked on that day,” declares the LORD.