Amos, 2

¹ “This is what Jehovah has said, ‘“On account of three revolts of Moʹab, and on account of four, I shall not turn it back, on account of his burning the bones of the king of Eʹdom for lime.

² And I will send a fire into Moʹab, and it must devour the dwelling towers of Keʹri·oth; and with noise Moʹab must die, with an alarm signal, with the sound of a horn.^*1

³ And I will cut off [the] judge from the midst of her, and all her princes I shall kill with him,” Jehovah has said.’

⁴ “This is what Jehovah has said, ‘On account of three revolts of Judah, and on account of four, I shall not turn it back, on account of their rejecting the law of Jehovah, and [because] they did not keep his own regulations; but their lies, after which their forefathers had walked, kept making them wander.

⁵ And I will send a fire into Judah, and it must devour the dwelling towers of Jerusalem.’

⁶ “This is what Jehovah has said, ‘On account of three revolts of Israel, and on account of four, I shall not turn it back, on account of their selling someone righteous for mere silver, and someone poor for [the price of] a pair of sandals.

⁷ They are panting for the dust of [the] earth on the head of lowly persons; and the way of meek people they turn aside; and a man^*1 and his own father have gone to the [same] girl, for the purpose of profaning my holy name.

⁸ And on garments seized as a pledge they stretch themselves out beside every altar; and the wine of those who have been fined they drink at the house of their gods.’^*1

⁹ “‘But as for me, I had annihilated the Amʹor·ite on account of them, whose height was like the height of cedars, and who was vigorous like the massive trees; and I went annihilating his fruitage above and his roots below.

¹⁰ And I myself brought YOU people up out of the land of Egypt, and I kept making YOU walk through the wilderness forty years, in order to take possession of the land^*1 of the Amʹor·ite.

¹¹ And I kept raising up some of YOUR sons as prophets and some of YOUR young men as Nazʹi·rites. Should this really not be, O sons of Israel?’ is the utterance of Jehovah.

¹² “‘But YOU kept giving the Nazʹi·rites wine to drink, and upon the prophets YOU laid a command, saying: “YOU must not prophesy.”

¹³ Here I am making what is under YOU sway, just as the wagon sways that is full up with a row of newly cut grain.

¹⁴ And a place to which to flee must perish from the swift one, and no one strong will reinforce his power, and no mighty man will provide his soul^*1 with escape.

¹⁵ And no one handling the bow will stand, and no one swift on his feet will escape, and no rider of the horse will provide his soul with escape.

¹⁶ And as for one strong in his heart among the mighty men, naked is how he will flee in that day,’ is the utterance of Jehovah.”