# Amos 2 (New King James Version)
Judgment on Israel

##### Chapter 2
###### 1 Thus says the Lord:
"For three transgressions of Moab, and for four,  
I will not turn away its _punishment,_  
Because he burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime.  

###### 2 But I will send a fire upon Moab,  
And it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth;  
Moab shall die with tumult,  
With shouting _and_ trumpet sound.  

###### 3 And I will cut off the judge from its midst,  
And slay all its princes with him,"  
Says the Lord.Judgment on Judah

###### 4 Thus says the Lord:
"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 lead them astray,  
_Lies_ which their fathers followed.  

###### 5 But I will send a fire upon Judah,  
And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem."Judgment on Israel

###### 6 Thus says the Lord:
"For three transgressions of Israel, and for four,  
I will not turn away its _punishment,_  
Because they sell the righteous for silver,  
And the poor for a pair of sandals.  

###### 7 They pant after the dust of the earth _which is_ on the head of the poor,  
And pervert the way of the humble.  
A man and his father go in to the _same_ girl,  
To defile My holy name.  

###### 8 They lie down by every altar on clothes taken in pledge,  
And drink the wine of the condemned _in_ the house of their god.

###### 9 "Yet _it was_ I _who_ destroyed the Amorite before them,  
Whose height _was_ like the height of the cedars,  
And he _was as_ strong as the oaks;  
Yet I destroyed his fruit above  
And his roots beneath.  

###### 10 Also _it was_ I _who_ brought you up from the land of Egypt,  
And led you forty years through the wilderness,  
To possess the land of the Amorite.  

###### 11 I raised up some of your sons as prophets,  
And some of your young men as Nazirites.  
_Is it_ not so, O you children of Israel?"  
Says the Lord.  

###### 12 "But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink,  
And commanded the prophets saying,  
'Do not prophesy!'

###### 13 "Behold, I am weighed down by you,  
As a cart full of sheaves is weighed down.  

###### 14 Therefore flight shall perish from the swift,  
The strong shall not strengthen his power,  
Nor shall the mighty deliver himself;  

###### 15 He shall not stand who handles the bow,  
The swift of foot shall not escape,  
Nor shall he who rides a horse deliver himself.  

###### 16 The most courageous men of might  
Shall flee naked in that day,"  
Says the Lord.