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Amos 2 JPS Tanakh 1917
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href="/amos/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof,</div><div class="po2">And will slay all the princes thereof with him,<p>Saith the LORD.</div> <p class="section"></p><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Thus saith the LORD:<br></div><div class="po2">For three transgressions of Judah,</div><div class="po2">Yea, for four, I will not reverse it:<br></div><div class="po2">Because they have rejected the law of the LORD,</div><div class="po2">And have not kept His statutes,</div><div class="po2">And their lies have caused them to err,</div><div class="po2">After which their fathers did walk.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So will I send a fire upon Judah,</div><div class="po2">And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Thus saith the LORD:</div><div class="po2">For three transgressions of Israel,</div><div class="po2">Yea, for four, I will not reverse it:</div><div class="po2">Because they sell the righteous for silver,</div><div class="po2">And the needy for a pair of shoes;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor,</div><div class="po2">And turn aside the way of the humble;</div><div class="po2">And a man and his father go unto the same maid,</div><div class="po2">To profane My holy name;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And they lay themselves down beside every altar</div><div class="po2">Upon clothes taken in pledge,</div><div class="po2">And in the house of their God they drink</div><div class="po2">The wine of them that have been fined.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them,</div><div class="po2">Whose height was like the height of the cedars,</div><div class="po2">And he was strong as the oaks;</div><div class="po2">Yet I destroyed his fruit from above,</div><div class="po2">And his roots from beneath.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt,</div><div class="po2">And led you forty years in the wilderness,</div><div class="po2">To possess the land of the Amorites.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And I raised up of your sons for prophets,</div><div class="po2">And of your young men for Nazirites.</div><div class="po2">Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel?<p>Saith the LORD.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink;</div><div class="po2">And commanded the prophets, saying: ‘Prophesy not.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Behold, I will make it creak under you,</div><div class="po2">As a cart creaketh that is full of sheaves.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And flight shall fail the swift,</div><div class="po2">And the strong shall not exert his strength,</div><div class="po2">Neither shall the mighty deliver himself;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow;</div><div class="po2">And he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself;</div><div class="po2">Neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And he that is courageous among the mighty</div><div class="po2">Shall flee away naked in that day,<p>Saith the LORD.</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div 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