American Standard Version

Amos 1

The Book of Amos

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Chapter 2

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 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime: 

 


2

 

 but I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet; 

 


3

 

 and I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith Jehovah. 

 


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 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have rejected the law of Jehovah, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, after which their fathers did walk: 

 


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 but I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. 

 


6

 

 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes- 

 


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 they that pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father go unto the [same] maiden, to profane my holy name: 

 


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 and they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined. 

 


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 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. 

 


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 Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. 

 


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 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith Jehovah. 

 


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 But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not. 

 


13

 

 Behold, I will press [you] in your place, as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves. 

 


14

 

 And flight shall perish from the swift; and the strong shall not strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself; 

 


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 neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver [himself]; neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself; 

 


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 and he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith Jehovah. 

 


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