Amos 2
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Thus saith the LORD;
For three transgressions of Moab, Is. 15.1--16.14 ; 25.10-12 · Jer. 48.1-47 · Ezek. 25.8-11 · 2.8-11 and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; 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 Kir'i-oth: 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 the
midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith
the LORD.
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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:
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but I will send a fire upon Judah, and it
shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
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The Judgment on
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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;
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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:
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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.
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Yet destroyed I the Amorite before
them, Deut. 3.8-11 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 from the land of
Egypt, and led you forty years through 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 Nazarites. Num. 6.1-8 Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith
the LORD.
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But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink;
and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
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Behold, I am pressed under you, as a
cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
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Therefore the 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 handleth the
bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver
himself.
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And he that is courageous among
the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.
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