Amos 2

¹ Yahweh says this: For the three crimes, the four crimes of Moab, I have made my decree and will notrelent: because they have burnt the bones of the king of Edom to ash,

² I shal send fire down into Moab to devour the palaces of Kerioth, and Moab will die in the tumult, amidwar cries and the blare of trumpets;

³ I shal destroy the ruler there and slaughter al the chief men there with him, says Yahweh.

⁴ Yahweh says this: For the three crimes, the four crimes of Judah, I have made my decree and wil notrelent: because they have despised Yahweh's law and not kept his commandments, since their Falsehoods,which their ancestors followed, have led them astray,

⁵ I shal send fire down on Judah to devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

⁶ Yahweh says this: For the three crimes, the four crimes of Israel, I have made my decree and wil notrelent: because they have sold the upright for silver and the poor for a pair of sandals,

⁷ because they have crushed the heads of the weak into the dust and thrust the rights of the oppressedto one side, father and son sleeping with the same girl and thus profaning my holy name,

⁸ lying down beside every altar on clothes acquired as pledges, and drinking the wine of the people theyhave fined in the house of their god.

⁹ Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, he who was as tal as the cedars, as strong as theoaks; I who destroyed his fruit above ground and his roots below.

¹⁰ It was I who brought you up from Egypt and for forty years led you through the desert to takepossession of the Amorite's country;

¹¹ I who raised up prophets from your sons and Nazirites from your young men. Israelites, is this nottrue? -declares Yahweh!

¹² But you have made the Nazirite drink wine and given orders to the prophets, 'Do not prophesy.'

¹³ Very wel ! Like a cart overloaded with sheaves I shall crush you where you stand;

¹⁴ flight wil be cut off for the swift, the strong will have no chance to exert his strength nor the warrior beable to save his life;

¹⁵ the archer wil not stand his ground, the swift of foot wil not escape, nor will the horseman save hislife;

¹⁶ even the bravest of warriors will jettison his arms and run away, that day! -declares Yahweh!