Amos 2:1-12 ▼

1 Thus says YHWH: “Over three transgressions of Moab, even over four, I will not turn back—over his burning the bones of the king of Edom to lime!

2 And I will send a fire on Moab, and it will devour the citadels of Kerioth; and Moab will die with a roar, with shouting, with the voice of the shofar.

3 And I will cut off the judge from her midst, and all her princes I will kill with him,” says YHWH.

4 Thus says YHWH: “Over three transgressions of Judah, even over four, I will not turn back—over their rejecting the law of YHWH, and they did not keep His commandments, and their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers have walked!

5 And I will send a fire on Judah, and it will devour the citadels of Jerusalem.”

6 Thus says YHWH: “Over three transgressions of Israel, even over four, I will not turn back—over their selling the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals.

7 They pant after the dust of the earth on the heads of the poor, out of their way they stretch aside the humble, and a man and his father go into the same girl, in order to defile the name of My holiness.

8 And on clothes taken in pledge they stretch out beside every altar, and the wine of those having been fined they drink in the house of their God.

9 And I—I have destroyed the Amorite before their faces, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the Oaks; and I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.

10 And I brought you? up from the land of Egypt, and I led you? in the wilderness forty years, to possess the land of the Amorite.

11 And I raised up some of your? sons as prophets, and some of your? young men as Nazirites. Indeed, Is it not thus, O sons of Israel?” An utterance of YHWH.

12 “And the Nazirites you? made to drink wine, and regarding the prophets you? commanded, saying, ‘You? will not prophesy.’