Amos 2:1-12 ▼

1 This is what the LORD says: |For three transgressions of Moab because they cremated the bones of the king of Edom, burning them to lime.

2 So I will send down fire upon Moab, and it will devour the fortified citadels of Kerioth. Moab will die in the uproar of battle, with a war cry and with the trumpeting of the ram's horn.

3 I will execute their rulers among them, killing all of their officials as well,| says the LORD.

4 This is what the LORD says: |For three transgressions of Judah —and now for a fourth— I will not turn away; because they rejected the Law of the LORD and did not keep his statutes. Their own lies made them wander off, following along the same path their ancestors walked.

5 So I will send down fire upon Judah, and it will devour the fortified citadels of Jerusalem.|

6 This is what the LORD says: |For three transgressions of Israel —and now for a fourth— I will not turn away; because they sold the righteous for money, and the poor for sandals,

7 moving quickly to rub the face of the needy in the dirt. Corrupting the ways of the humble, a man and his father go to the same woman, deliberately defiling my holy name.

8 They lay down beside every altar, on garments pledged as collateral, drinking wine paid for through fines imposed by the temple of their gods.

9 Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorites in front of them, though their height seemed like a cedar, though their strength seemed like an oak, but whose fruit I destroyed from above and the roots from beneath.

10 Furthermore, I brought you up from the land of Egypt, leading you in the wilderness for 40 years, to take possession of the land of the Amorites.

11 I also raised up your sons to be prophets, and from your young men I raised up Nazirites. Is this not true, people of Israel?| declares the LORD.

12 |But you forced the Nazirites to drink wine, and commanded the prophets, 'You are not to prophesy!'