Amos 2

¹Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Moab , and for four , I will not revoke the punishment , because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom .

²So I will send a fire upon Moab , and it shall devour the strongholds of Kerioth , and Moab shall die amid uproar , amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet ;

³I will cut off the ruler from its midst , and will kill all its princes with him, says the Lord.

⁴Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Judah , and for four , I will not revoke the punishment , because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his statutes , but their lies have led them astray , those after which their fathers walked .

⁵So I will send a fire upon Judah , and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem .

⁶Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Israel , and for four , I will not revoke the punishment , because they sell the righteous for silver , and the needy for a pair of sandals —

⁷those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and turn aside the way of the afflicted ; a man and his father go in to the same girl , so that my holy name is profaned ;

⁸they lay themselves down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge , and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined .

⁹Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars and who was as strong as the oaks ; I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.

¹⁰Also it was I who brought you up out of the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness , to possess the land of the Amorite .

¹¹And I raised up some of your sons for prophets , and some of your young men for Nazirites . Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel ? declares the Lord.

¹²But you made the Nazirites drink wine, and commanded the prophets , saying , You shall not prophesy .

¹³Behold , I will press you down in your place, as a cart full of sheaves presses down.

¹⁴Flight shall perish from the swift , and the strong shall not retain his strength , nor shall the mighty save his life ;

¹⁵he who handles the bow shall not stand , and he who is swift of foot shall not save himself, nor shall he who rides the horse save his life ;

¹⁶and he who is stout of heart among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day , declares the Lord.