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cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../amos/1.htm" 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">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>:</span></span><br /><span class="text">For three transgressions of Moab,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and for four, I will not revoke the punishment;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26653a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span class="text">because he burned to lime</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the bones of the king of Edom.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>So I will send a fire on Moab,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and it shall devour the strongholds of Kerioth,</span></span><br /><span class="text">and Moab shall die amid uproar,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>I will cut off the ruler from its midst,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and will kill all its officials with him,</span></span><br /><span class="right"><span class="text">says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></span></p></div> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Judgment on Judah</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>:</span><br /><span class="text">For three transgressions of Judah,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and for four, I will not revoke the punishment;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26656b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span class="text">because they have rejected the law of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and have not kept his statutes,</span></span><br /><span class="text">but they have been led astray by the same lies</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">after which their ancestors walked.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>So I will send a fire on Judah,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.</span></span></p></div> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Judgment on Israel</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>:</span><br /><span class="text">For three transgressions of Israel,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and for four, I will not revoke the punishment;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26658c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span class="text">because they sell the righteous for silver,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the needy for a pair of sandals—</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>they who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and push the afflicted out of the way;</span></span><br /><span class="text">father and son go in to the same girl,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">so that my holy name is profaned;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>they lay themselves down beside every altar</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">on garments taken in pledge;</span></span><br /><span class="text">and in the house of their God they drink</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">wine bought with fines they imposed.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">whose height was like the height of cedars,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and who was as strong as oaks;</span></span><br /><span class="text">I destroyed his fruit above,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and his roots beneath.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and led you forty years in the wilderness,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">to possess the land of the Amorite.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>And I raised up some of your children to be prophets</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and some of your youths to be nazirites.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26663d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?</span></span><br /><span class="right"><span class="text">says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>But you made the nazirites<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26664e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> drink wine,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and commanded the prophets,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">saying, “You shall not prophesy.”</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>So, I will press you down in your place,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">just as a cart presses down</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">when it is full of sheaves.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26665f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Flight shall perish from the swift,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the strong shall not retain their strength,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">nor shall the mighty save their lives;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>those who handle the bow shall not stand,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and those who are swift of foot shall not save themselves,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">nor shall those who ride horses save their lives;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>and those who are stout of heart among the mighty</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">shall flee away naked in that day,</span></span><br /><span class="right"><span class="text">says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Amos 2:1">Amos 2:1</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>cause it to return</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Amos 2:4">Amos 2:4</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>cause it to return</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Amos 2:6">Amos 2:6</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>cause it to return</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Amos 2:11">Amos 2:11</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is, <i>those separated</i> or <i>those consecrated</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Amos 2:12">Amos 2:12</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is, <i>those separated</i> or <i>those consecrated</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Amos 2:13">Amos 2:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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