Chapter 2
Amos · Prophet Amos
¹ Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime. ² But I will send forth a fire on Moab, and it shall devour the foundations of its cities: and Moab shall perish in weakness, with a shout, and with the sound of a trumpet. ³ And I will destroy the judge out of her, and slay all her princes with him, saith the Lord.
Am 2:1-3
⁴ Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of the children of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his ordinances, and their vain [idols] which they made, which their fathers followed, caused them to err. ⁵ And I will send a fire on Judah, and it shall devour the foundations of Jerusalem.
Am 2:4-5
⁶ Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for sandals, ⁷ wherewith to tread on the dust of the earth, and they have smitten upon the heads of the poor, and have perverted the way of the lowly: and a son and his father have gone in to the same maid, that they might profane the name of their God. ⁸ And binding their clothes with cords they have made them curtains near the altar, and they have drunk wine gained by extortion in the house of their God.
Am 2:6-8
⁹ Nevertheless I cut off the Amorite from before them, whose height was as the height of a cedar, and he was strong as an oak; and I dried up his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. ¹⁰ And I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you about in the desert forty years, that ye should inherit the land of the Amorites. ¹¹ And I took of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for consecration. Are not these things so, ye sons of Israel? saith the Lord. ¹² But ye gave the consecrated ones wine to drink; and ye commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
Am 2:9-12
¹³ Therefore, behold, I roll under you, as a wagon full of straw is rolled. ¹⁴ And flight shall perish from the runner, and the strong shall not hold fast his strength, and the warrior shall not save his life: ¹⁵ and the archer shall not withstand, and he that is swift of foot shall in nowise escape; and the horseman shall not save his life. ¹⁶ And the strong shall find no confidence in power: the naked shall flee away in that day, saith the Lord.
Am 2:13-16