Amos 2
About Amos Amos, a shepherd, condemns injustice and empty worship and calls for justice to roll down like water.
1Thus 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:SelectedAmos 2:1Ask
2But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:SelectedAmos 2:2Ask
3And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.SelectedAmos 2:3Ask
4Thus 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:SelectedAmos 2:4Ask
5But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.SelectedAmos 2:5Ask
6Thus 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;SelectedAmos 2:6Ask
7That 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:SelectedAmos 2:7Ask
8And 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.SelectedAmos 2:8Ask
9Yet 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.SelectedAmos 2:9Ask
10Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.SelectedAmos 2:10Ask
11And 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.SelectedAmos 2:11Ask
12But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.SelectedAmos 2:12Ask
13Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.SelectedAmos 2:13Ask
14Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:SelectedAmos 2:14Ask
15Neither 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.SelectedAmos 2:15Ask
16And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.SelectedAmos 2:16Ask
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