Amos 2

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¹Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime; ✦ ²but I will send a fire on Moab, and it will devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet; ✦ ³and I will cut off the judge from among them, and will kill all its princes with him,” says Yahweh. ✦ ⁴Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have rejected Yahweh’s law, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked; ✦ ⁵But I will send a fire on Judah, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem.” ✦ ⁶Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, 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; ✦ ⁷They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name; ✦ ⁸and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined. ✦ ⁹Yet I destroyed 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. ✦ ¹⁰Also 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. ✦ ¹¹I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Isn’t this true, you children of Israel?” says Yahweh. ✦ ¹²“But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Don’t prophesy!’ ✦ ¹³Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain. ✦ ¹⁴Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won’t strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself; ✦ ¹⁵neither shall he stand who handles the bow; and he who is swift of foot won’t escape; neither shall he who rides the horse deliver himself; ✦ ¹⁶and he who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked on that day,” says Yahweh. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Jer 48 ·7 Ezek 20 ·6 Amos 1 ·6 Neh 9 ·5 Mic 2 ·4 Mic 6 ·4 Isa 5 ·4 Ezek 22 ·3

Christ at the center

Amid judgment on injustice, Amos promises the raising up of David's fallen tent — read by James in Acts 15 as the ingathering of the nations into the kingdom of the risen Christ.

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