AMOS. Chapter 2

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CHAP. II.

1 Gods wrath against Moab, 4 vpon Iudah, 6 and vpon Israel. 9 God complaineth of their vnthankefulnesse.

¹Thus sayth the Lord, For three transgressions of Moab, and for foure, I wil not turne away the punishment thereof, because hee burnt the bones of the King of Edom into lime.¹

²But I will send a fire vpon Moab, and it shall deuoure the palaces of Kerioth, and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:

³And I will cut off the iudge from the middest thereof, and wil slay all the princes thereof with him, sayeth the Lord.

⁴¶ Thus sayth the Lord, For three transgressions of Iudah, and for foure, I will not turne away the punishment thereof; because they haue despised the Law of the Lord, and haue not kept his Commandements, and their lies caused them to erre, after the which their fathers haue walked.

⁵But I will send a fire vpon Iudah, and it shall deuoure the palaces of Ierusalem.

⁶¶ Thus sayth the Lord, For three transgressions of Israel, and for foure, I will not turne away the punishment thereof; because they solde the righteous for siluer, and the poore for a paire of shooes:⁶

⁷That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poore, and turne aside the way of the meeke; and a man and his father will goe in vnto the same maid, to profane my holy Name.⁷

⁸And they lay themselues downe vpon clothes laide to pledge, by euery Altar, and they drinke the wine of the condemned in the house of their God.⁸

⁹¶ Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the Cedars, and hee was strong as the okes, yet I destroyed his fruite from aboue, and his rootes from beneath.⁹

¹⁰Also I brought you vp from the land of Egypt, and ledde you fourtie yeeres through the wildernesse, to possesse the land of the Amorite.¹⁰

¹¹And I raised vp of your sonnes for Prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not euen thus, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord ?

¹²But ye gaue the Nazarites wine to drinke, and commaunded the Prophets, saying, Prophecie not.¹²

¹³Behold, I am pressed vnder you, as a cart is pressed that is ful of sheaues.¹³

¹⁴Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mightie deliuer himselfe:¹⁴

¹⁵Neither shall hee stand that handleth the bow, and hee that is swift of foote, shall not deliuer himselfe, neither shall hee that rideth the horse, deliuer himselfe.

¹⁶And hee that is couragious among the mighty, shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.¹⁶

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for Amos Chapter 2

¹ 2.Kings.3.27.
⁶ Chap.8.8.
⁷ Or, young woman.
⁸ Or, such as haue fined or mulcted.
⁹ Num.21. 24. deut. 2. 31. iosh. 24.8.
¹⁰ Exod. 12. 51.
¹² Cha.7.12.
¹³ Or, I will presse your place as a cart full of sheaues presseth.
¹⁴ Heb. his soule or life.
¹⁶ Heb. strong of his heart.

* Some content courtesy of Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania

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