Amos 2

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¹This is what the Lord says: “For three offenses of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke its punishment, Because he burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime. ✦ ²“So I will send fire upon Moab And it will consume the citadels of Kerioth; And Moab will die amid the panic of battle, Amid war cries and the sound of a trumpet. ✦ ³“I will also eliminate the judge from her midst And slay all her leaders with him,” says the Lord. ✦ ⁴¶This is what the Lord says: “For three offenses of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke its punishment, Because they rejected the Law of the Lord And have not kept His statutes; Their lies also have led them astray, Those which their fathers followed. ✦ ⁵“So I will send fire upon Judah, And it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem.” ✦ ⁶¶This is what the Lord says: “For three offenses of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke its punishment, Because they sell the righteous for money, And the needy for a pair of sandals. ✦ ⁷“These who trample the head of the helpless to the dust of the earth Also divert the way of the humble; And a man and his father resort to the same girl So as to profane My holy name. ✦ ⁸“And on garments seized as pledges they stretch out beside every altar, And in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined. ✦ ⁹¶“Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, Though his height was like the height of cedars And he was as strong as the oaks; I also destroyed his fruit above and his roots below. ✦ ¹⁰“And it was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt, And led you in the wilderness for forty years So that you might take possession of the land of the Amorite. ✦ ¹¹“Then I raised up some of your sons to be prophets, And some of your young men to be Nazirites. Is this not so, you sons of Israel?” declares the Lord. ✦ ¹²“But you made the Nazirites drink wine, And you commanded the prophets, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy!’ ✦ ¹³“Behold, I am making a rut in the ground beneath you, Just as a wagon makes a rut when filled with sheaves. ✦ ¹⁴“Refuge will be lost from the swift, And the strong will not strengthen his power, Nor the warrior save his life. ✦ ¹⁵“The one who grasps the bow will not stand his ground, The swift of foot will not escape, Nor will the one who rides the horse save his life. ✦ ¹⁶“Even the bravest among the warriors will flee naked on that day,” declares the Lord. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

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