Amos 2

Christian Standard Bible

2 The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing Moab^(A)
for three crimes, even four,
because he burned the bones
of the king of Edom to lime.^(B)
²Therefore, I will send fire against Moab,
and it will consume the citadels of Kerioth.^(C)
Moab will die with a tumult,^(D)
with shouting and the sound of the ram’s horn.
³I will cut off the judge^(E) from the land
and kill all its officials^(F) with him.
The Lord has spoken.

Judgment on Judah

⁴The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing Judah^(G)
for three crimes, even four,
because they have rejected the instruction of the Lord^(H)
and have not kept his statutes.^(I)
The lies^(J) that their ancestors followed^(K)
have led them astray.
⁵Therefore, I will send fire^(L) against Judah,
and it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem.

Judgment on Israel

⁶The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing Israel^(M)
for three crimes, even four,
because they sell a righteous person for silver
and a needy person for a pair of sandals.^(N)
⁷They trample the heads of the poor^(O)
on the dust of the ground
and obstruct the path of the needy.^(P)
A man and his father have sexual relations
with the same girl,^(Q)
profaning my holy name.^(R)
⁸They stretch out beside every altar^(S)
on garments taken as collateral,^(T)
and in the house of their God
they drink wine obtained through fines.^(U)

⁹Yet I destroyed the Amorite^(V) as Israel advanced;
his height^(W) was like the cedars,
and he was as sturdy as the oaks;
I destroyed his fruit^(X) above and his roots beneath.
¹⁰And I brought you from the land of Egypt^(Y)
and led you forty years in the wilderness^(Z)
in order to possess the land of the Amorite.^(AA)
¹¹I raised up some of your sons as prophets^(AB)
and some of your young men as Nazirites.^(AC)
Is this not the case, Israelites?

This is the Lord’s declaration.

¹²But you made the Nazirites drink wine
and commanded the prophets,
“Do not prophesy.”^(AD)
¹³Look, I am about to crush^[a] you in your place^(AE)
as a wagon crushes when full of grain.
¹⁴Escape will fail the swift,^(AF)
the strong one will not maintain his strength,^(AG)
and the warrior will not save his life.
¹⁵The archer will not stand his ground,^(AH)
the one who is swift of foot
will not save himself,
and the one riding a horse will not save his life.^(AI)
¹⁶Even the most courageous of the warriors
will flee naked on that day^(AJ)—

this is the Lord’s declaration.

Footnotes

2:13 Or hinder; Hb obscure

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