Amos 2

Thomson^{(i) 1} Thus saith the Lord, For the three transgressions of Moab, and for four shall I not be averse from him? Because he burned into lime the bones of the king of Idumea; ² therefore I will send a fire into Moab, and it shall devour the foundations of her cities, and Moab shall die of weakness: with shouting and with the clangour of trumpets, ³ I will cut off her judge, and slay all her chiefs with him, saith the Lord. ⁴ Thus saith the Lord, For the three transgressions of the children of Juda, and for four, shall I not be averse from him? Because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his commandments, and have been led astray by their vanities which they made, which their fathers had followed; ⁵ therefore I will send a fire against Juda, and it shall devour the foundations of Jerusalem. ⁶ Thus saith the Lord, For the three transgressions of Israel, and for four, shall I not be averse from him? Because they sold a righteous one for silver and a needy one for a pair of sandals; ⁷ and dashed their sandals against the heads of the poor; and turned aside the way of the meek; and a son and a father went in unto the same handmaid. That they might profane the name of their God, ⁸ having bound their garments with cords of rushes, they pitched their tents near the altar, and drank, in the house of their God, wine got by extortion. ⁹ As for me, I removed from before them the Amorite whose stature was like that of a cedar. Though he was strong as an oak, I withered his fruit above and his roots underneath. ¹⁰ I indeed brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you about in the wilderness forty years, that you might inherit the land of the Amorites. ¹¹ And I took some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for a state of sanctification. Are not these things so, children of Israel? Saith the Lord. ¹² But you caused my sanctified ones to drink wine; and charged the prophets, saying, "You shall not prophesy:" ¹³ Therefore behold I will roll under you, as a cart rolleth which is loaded with sheaves, ¹⁴ so that flight shall perish from the swift runner; and the strong will not be master of his strength; and the warrior shall not save his life. ¹⁵ And the bowman shall not stand, nor shall the swift of foot escape; even the horseman shall not save his life. ¹⁶ The mighty will not know how to act with their forces: the naked shall, in that day, pursue, saith the Lord.