Amos 2:6-16 ▼

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.’

13 Behold, I am going to press you? under, as a cart full of sheaves presses down.

14 And flight will perish from the swift, and the strong will not strengthen his power, and the mighty will not deliver his soul.

15 And the one handling the bow will not stand, and the one swift in his feet will not escape, and the one riding a horse will not deliver his soul;

16 and the strong in his heart among the mighty ones will flee naked on that day,” a declaration of YHWH.