Amos 2

¹ Yahweh says this: For the three crimes, the four crimes, of Moab I have made my decree and will not relent: because they have burnt the bones of the king[*a] of Edom for lime,

² I am going to hurl fire on Moab to burn up the palaces of Kerioth, and Moab shall die in tumult, to the sound of war cries and the blare of trumpets;

³ I will cut down the chieftain inside her and slaughter all her princes with him, says Yahweh.

⁴ Yahweh says this: For the three crimes, the four crimes, of Judah I have made my decree and will not relent: because they have rejected the Law of Yahweh and failed to keep his precepts, because the false gods which their ancestors followed have led them astray,

⁵ I am going to hurl fire on Judah to burn up the palaces of Jerusalem.

⁶ Yahweh says this: For the three crimes, the four crimes, of Israel I have made my decree and will not relent: because they have sold the virtuous man for silver and the poor man for a pair of sandals,

⁷ because they trample on the heads of ordinary people and push the poor out of their path, because father and son have both resorted to the same girl,[*b] profaning my holy name,

⁸ because they stretch themselves out by the side of every altar on clothes acquired as pledges, and drink the wine of the people they have fined in the house of their god…

⁹ Yet it was I who overthrew the Amorites when they attacked, men tall as cedars and strong as oaks, I who destroyed them, both fruit above ground and root below.

¹⁰ It was I who brought you out of the land of Egypt and for forty years led you through the wilderness to take possession of the Amorite’s country.

¹¹ I raised up prophets from your sons and nazirites from your young men. Is this not true, sons of Israel?-it is Yahweh who speaks.

¹² But you have forced the nazirites to drink wine and given orders to the prophets, ‘Do not prophesy’.

¹³ See then how I am going to crush you into the ground as the threshing-sledge crushes when clogged by straw;

¹⁴ flight will not save even the swift, the strong man will find his strength useless, the mighty man will be powerless to save himself.

¹⁵ The bowman will not stand his ground, the fast runner will not escape, the horseman will not save himself,

¹⁶ the bravest warriors will run away naked that day. It is Yahweh who speaks.