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title="Amos 1">◄</a> Amos 2 <a href="../amos/3.htm" title="Amos 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/amos/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>:</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“For three transgressions of Moab,</span><br /><span class="indent">and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew I will not turn it back; also verses 4, 6">a</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="ln-group">because he burned to lime</span><br /><span class="indent">the bones of the king of Edom.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">So I will send a fire upon Moab,</span><br /><span class="indent">and it shall devour the strongholds of Kerioth,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and Moab shall die amid uproar,</span><br /><span class="indent">amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I will cut off the ruler from its midst,</span><br /><span class="indent">and will kill all its princes<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or officials">b</a></sup></span> with him,”</span><br /><begin-line class="declares"/>says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</span></p> <p class="heading">Judgment on Judah</p><p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>:</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“For three transgressions of Judah,</span><br /><span class="indent">and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">because they have rejected the law of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent">and have not kept his statutes,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">but their lies have led them astray,</span><br /><span class="indent">those after which their fathers walked.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">So I will send a fire upon Judah,</span><br /><span class="indent">and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.”</span></p> <p class="heading">Judgment on Israel</p><p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>:</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“For three transgressions of Israel,</span><br /><span class="indent">and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">because they sell the righteous for silver,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the needy for a pair of sandals—</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth</span><br /><span class="indent">and turn aside the way of the afflicted;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">a man and his father go in to the same girl,</span><br /><span class="indent">so that my holy name is profaned;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">they lay themselves down beside every altar</span><br /><span class="indent">on garments taken in pledge,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and in the house of their God they drink</span><br /><span class="indent">the wine of those who have been fined.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them,</span><br /><span class="indent">whose height was like the height of the cedars</span><br /><span class="indent">and who was as strong as the oaks;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I destroyed his fruit above</span><br /><span class="indent">and his roots beneath.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Also it was I who brought you up out of the land of Egypt</span><br /><span class="indent">and led you forty years in the wilderness,</span><br /><span class="indent">to possess the land of the Amorite.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And I raised up some of your sons for prophets,</span><br /><span class="indent">and some of your young men for Nazirites.</span><br /><span class="indent">Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?”</span><br /><begin-line class="declares"/>declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“But you made the Nazirites drink wine,</span><br /><span class="indent">and commanded the prophets,</span><br /><span class="indent">saying, ‘You shall not prophesy.’</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Behold, I will press you down in your place,</span><br /><span class="indent">as a cart full of sheaves presses down.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Flight shall perish from the swift,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the strong shall not retain his strength,</span><br /><span class="indent">nor shall the mighty save his life;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">he who handles the bow shall not stand,</span><br /><span class="indent">and he who is swift of foot shall not save himself,</span><br /><span class="indent">nor shall he who rides the horse save his life;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">and he who is stout of heart among the mighty</span><br /><span class="indent">shall flee away naked in that day,”</span><br /><begin-line class="declares"/>declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">I will not</span> turn it back</i>; also verses 4, 6<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> Or <i>officials</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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