AM-2:1  Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab,

and for four, I

will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because he burned

the bones of

the king of Edom into lime:

AM-2:2  But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour

the palaces of

Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, [and]

with the sound

of the trumpet:

AM-2:3  And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and

will slay all

the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.

AM-2:4  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:

AM-2:5  But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour

the palaces of

Jerusalem.

AM-2:6  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;

AM-2:7  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:

AM-2:8  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.

AM-2:9  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.

AM-2:10  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.

AM-2:11  And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your

young men for

Nazarites. [Is it] not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith

the LORD.

AM-2:12  But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded

the prophets,

saying, Prophesy not.

AM-2:13  Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed

[that is] full

of sheaves.

AM-2:14  Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and

the strong

shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver

himself:

AM-2:15  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.

AM-2:16  And [he that is] courageous among the mighty shall flee

away naked in

that day, saith the LORD.

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