Amos 2
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Thus says YHWH: For three transgressions of Moab, yea, for four, I will not turn away
its punishment; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
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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;
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and I will cut off the judge from its midst, and will slay all the princes
thereof with him, says YHWH.
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Thus says YHWH: For three transgressions of Judah, yea, for four, I will not turn
away its punishment; because they have rejected the law of YHWH, and have
not kept his statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, after which their fathers
did walk:
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but I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
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Thus says YHWH: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn
away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and
the needy for a pair of shoes-
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they 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 go to the [same] maiden, to profane
my holy name:
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and they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge; and
in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined.
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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.
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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.
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And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites. Is
it not even thus, O you children of Israel? says YHWH.
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But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy
not.
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Behold, I will press [you] in your place, as a cart presses that is full of sheaves.
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And flight shall perish from the swift; and the strong shall not strengthen his force;
neither shall the mighty deliver himself;
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neither shall he stand that handles the bow; and he who is swift of foot shall not
deliver [himself]; neither shall he who rides the horse deliver himself;
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and he who is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, says
YHWH.