King James VersionAmos2

Amos

1 Thus saith the LORD; For three trans­gres­sions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment there­of; be­cause he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime: 2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall de­vour the palaces of Ke­rio­th: and Moab shall die with tu­mult, with shout­ing, and with the sound of the trum­pet: 3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst there­of, and will slay all the princes there­of with him, saith the LORD. 4 Thus saith the LORD; For three trans­gres­sions of Ju­dah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment there­of; be­cause they have de­spised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his com­mand­ments, and their lies caused them to err, af­ter the which their fa­thers have walked: 5 But I will send a fire upon Ju­dah, and it shall de­vour the palaces of Jerusalem. 6 Thus saith the LORD; For three trans­gres­sions of Is­rael, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment there­of; be­cause they sold the righ­teous for sil­ver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; 7 That pant af­ter the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his fa­ther will go in unto the same maid, to pro­fane my holy name: 8 And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by ev­ery al­tar, and they drink the wine of the con­demned in the house of their god. 9 Yet de­stroyed I the Amor­ite be­fore them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I de­stroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from be­neath. 10 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilder­ness, to pos­sess the land of the Amor­ite. 11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye chil­dren of Is­rael? saith the LORD. 12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and com­mand­ed the prophets, say­ing, Proph­esy not. 13 Be­hold, I am pressed un­der you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves. 14 There­fore the flight shall per­ish from the swift, and the strong shall not strength­en his force, nei­ther shall the mighty de­liv­er him­self: 15 Nei­ther shall he stand that han­dleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not de­liv­er himself: nei­ther shall he that rideth the horse de­liv­er him­self. 16 And he that is coura­geous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.