Amos 2
1This is what Yahweh says: 1 “For three sins of Moab, 1 even for four, 1 I will not turn away punishment, 1 because he burned the bones 1 of the king of Edom to lime. 1
2I will send fire on Moab, 1 and it will devour the fortresses of Kerioth. 1 Moab will die in an uproar, 1 with shouting and the sound of the trumpet. 1
3I will destroy the judge in her, 1 and I will kill all the princes with him,” 1 says Yahweh. 1
4This is what Yahweh says: 1 “For three sins of Judah, 1 even for four, 1 I will not turn away punishment, 1 because they rejected the law of Yahweh 1 and did not keep his statutes. 1 Their lies caused them to go astray, 1 after which their fathers had also walked. 1
5I will send fire on Judah, 1 and it will devour the fortresses of Jerusalem.” 1
6This is what Yahweh says: 1 “For three sins of Israel, 1 even for four, 1 I will not turn away punishment, 1 because they sold the innocent for silver 1 and the needy for a pair of sandals. 1
7They trample on the heads of the poor as people trample on dust on the ground; 1 they push the oppressed away. 1 A man and his father sleep with the same girl 1 and so profane my holy name. 1
8They lie down beside every altar on clothes taken as pledges, 1 and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who were fined. 1
9Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, 1 whose height was like the height of cedars; 1 he was strong as the oaks. 1 Yet I destroyed his fruit above 1 and his roots below. 1
10Also, I brought you up out of the land of Egypt 1 and led you forty years in the wilderness 1 to possess the land of the Amorites. 1
11I raised up prophets from among your sons 1 and Nazirites from your young men. 1 Is it not so, 1 people of Israel? 1 —this is Yahweh's declaration. 1
12But you persuaded the Nazirites to drink wine 1 and commanded the prophets not to prophesy. 1
13Look, I will crush you 1 as a cart that is full of grain can crush someone. 1
14The swift will find no escape; 1 the strong will not add to his own strength; 1 neither will the mighty save himself. 1
15The archer will not stand; 1 the fast runner will not escape; 1 the horseman will not save himself. 1
16Even the bravest warriors 1 will flee naked in that day 1 —this is Yahweh's declaration.”