Amos 2:4-6

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁴ Thus says the Lord:
For three transgressions of Judah,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment;^[a]
because they have rejected the law of the Lord,
    and have not kept his statutes,
but they have been led astray by the same lies
    after which their ancestors walked.
⁵ So I will send a fire on Judah,
    and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.

⁶ Thus says the Lord:
For three transgressions of Israel,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment;^[b]
because they sell the righteous for silver,
    and the needy for a pair of sandals—