Amos 2

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1. 1The LORD says: "Moab has sinned again and again, and I will not hold back their punishment — because they burned the bones of the king of Edom until they turned to powder.
2. 2So I will send fire on Moab, and it will consume the fortresses of Kerioth. Moab will die amid tumult, with shouting and the sound of the trumpet.
3. 3I will wipe out their ruler and execute every one of their leaders along with him," says the LORD.
4. 4This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because they have despised the law of the LORD and have not kept his commandments. Their lies caused them to err, after which their fathers walked.”
5. 5So I will send fire on Judah, and it will consume the fortresses of Jerusalem."
6. 6The LORD says: "Israel has sinned again and again, and I will not hold back their punishment — because they sell honest people for silver and the poor for a pair of sandals.
7. 7They pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek. A man and his father will go in to the young woman, to profane my holy name.
8. 8They lie down on clothes taken as a pledge beside every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
9. 9Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the cedars and who was as strong as the oaks; I destroyed his fruit from above and his roots from beneath.
10. 10I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you through the wilderness for forty years to possess the land of the Amorites.
11. 11And I raised up some of your sons to be prophets, and some of your young men to be Nazarites. Is it not even so, O children of Israel? says the LORD.
12. 12But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink and told the prophets, 'Do not prophesy.'
13. 13Look, I am pressed down beneath you, like a cart that is loaded with sheaves.
14. 14The fastest runners won't be able to escape. The strongest warriors will lose their strength. Even the mightiest soldiers won't be able to save themselves.
15. 15Archers won't hold their ground. The quickest on their feet won't outrun it. Even those on horseback won't get away.
16. 16And even the bravest among the mighty will flee away naked on that day, says the LORD.