Amos 2

Amos 2:1

This is what the LORD says: "For three transgressions of Moab, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he burned to lime the bones of Edom's king.

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Amos 2:2

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.

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Amos 2:3

I will cut off the ruler of Moab and kill all the officials with him," says the LORD.

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Amos 2:4

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.

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Amos 2:5

So I will send fire upon Judah to consume the citadels of Jerusalem."

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Amos 2:6

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.

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Thus saith Amos , says Abp. Newcome , first prophesies against the Syrians , Philistines , Tyrians , Edomites , Ammonites , and Moabites , who dwelt in the neighbourhood of the twelve tribes , and had occasionally become their enemies and persecutors. Having thus taught his countrymen that the providence of God extended to other nations , he briefly mentions the idolatrous practices and consequent destruction of Judah , and then passes on to his proper subject , which was to exhort and reprove the kingdom of Israel , and to denounce against it the Divine judgments.

Amos 2:7

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.

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maid or , young woman

Amos 2:8

They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.

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the condemned or , such as have fined , or , mulcted

Amos 2:9

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.

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Amos 2:10

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.

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Amos 2:11

I raised up prophets from your sons and Nazirites from your young men. Is this not true, O children of Israel?" declares the LORD.

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Amos 2:12

"But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.

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Amos 2:13

Behold, I am about to crush you in your place as with a cart full of grain.

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I am pressed etc. or , I will press your place , as a cart full of sheaves presseth

Amos 2:14

Escape will fail the swift, the strong will not prevail by his strength, and the mighty will not save his life.

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himself Heb. his soul , or life

Amos 2:15

The archer will not stand his ground, the fleet of foot will not escape, and the horseman will not save his life.

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himself Heb. his soul , or life

Amos 2:16

Even the bravest of mighty men will flee naked on that day," declares the LORD.

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