Amos 2
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(Amo 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 king of Edom into lime:
(Amo 2:2) But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, {and} with the sound of the trumpet:
(Amo 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.
(Amo 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:
(Amo 2:5) But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
(Amo 2:6) Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away {the punishment} thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
(Amo 2:7) That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the {same} maid, to profane my holy name:
(Amo 2:8) And they lay {themselves} down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned {in} the house of their god.
(Amo 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.
(Amo 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.
(Amo 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 Israel? saith the Lord.
(Amo 2:12) But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
(Amo 2:13) Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed {that is} full of sheaves.
(Amo 2:14) Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
(Amo 2:15) Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and {he that is} swift of foot shall not deliver {himself}: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.
(Amo 2:16) And {he that is} courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.
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