KJ3 Literal Translation
Amos 2
Jehovah's wrath against Moab, Judah, and Israel. Jehovah gives judgment for them.
1So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn back from it, for he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.
2And I will send a fire against Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth. And Moab shall die with uproar, with a call to arms, with the sound of the rams' horn.
3And I will cut off he who judges from its midst, and I will kill all his rulers with him, says Jehovah.
4So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn back from it; for they rejected the Law of Jehovah, and they have not kept His statutes. And their lies after which their fathers walked led them astray.
5And I shall send a fire against Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
6So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn back from it, for they sold the righteous one for silver, and the needy one for a pair of sandals,
7panting for the dust of the earth to be on the head of the poor one, and stretch out the way of the humble one. And a man and his father will go in to the same girl, in order to profane the name of My holiness.
8And they will stretch out beside every altar, and on garments taken in pledge. And they will drink wine of those being fined in the house of God.
9Yet I destroyed the Amorite from before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the great trees. And I destroyed his fruit from above and his roots from below.
10Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you in the wilderness forty years, to possess the land of the Amorite.
11And I raised up from your sons for prophets, and for Nazarites from your young men. Is it not even this, O sons of Israel? a statement of Jehovah.
12And you gave the Nazarites wine to drink, and you commanded the prophets, saying, Do not prophesy.
13Behold, I am pressed under you, as is pressed the cart with the fullness of cut grain in it.
14And refuge shall perish from the swift, and the strong one shall not strengthen his power, and not shall the mighty one save his life,
15and he who handles the bow shall not stand, and the one swift with his feet shall not save, and he who rides the horse shall not save his life.
16And the strong of heart among the mighty ones shall run away naked in that day, a statement of Jehovah.
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