Amos 2

¹ Thus 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.

² So 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;

³ I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and will slay all its princes with him," says the LORD.

⁴ Thus 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, after which their fathers walked.

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

⁶ Thus 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 shoes--

⁷ they that 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 maiden, so that my holy name is profaned;

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

⁹ "Yet I 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.

¹⁰ 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.

¹¹ And 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?" says the LORD.

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

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

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

¹⁵ he 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;

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