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          DASV: Amos 2

1 This is what the LORD says:
     "For three crimes of Moab,
           and for four, I will not revoke its punishment,
     because he burned the bones of the king of Edom to ashes.
2 So I will send fire on Moab,
     and fire will devour the palaces of Kerioth.
     Moab will die with tumult,
     with shouting, and with the sound of a trumpet.
3 I will cut off its ruler from its midst,
     and will slay all their princes with him,"
           says the LORD.

4 This is what the LORD says:
     "For three crimes of Judah,
           and for four, I will not revoke its punishment,
     because they have rejected the law of the LORD,
           and have not kept his statutes.
     They were led astray by the lies,
           after which their forefathers walked.
5 So I will send a fire on Judah,
      and fire will devour the fortresses of Jerusalem."

6 This is what the LORD says:
     "For three crimes of Israel,
           and for four, I will not revoke its punishment,
     because they have sold the righteous for silver,
           and the needy for a pair of sandals.
7 They trample the heads of the poor into the dust of the earth,
           and push the oppressed out of the way;
      a man and his father go in to the same girl,
           in this way profaning my holy name.
8 They lay down beside every altar
     upon clothes acquired from debt collateral,
     and drink wine in the house of their God
     funded by unjust fines.
9 Yet I myself destroyed the Amorite before them,
     who were as tall as cedars,
           and as strong as oaks.
     Yet I destroyed his fruit above,
           and his roots beneath.
10 I myself brought you up out of the land of Egypt,
     and led you forty years in the wilderness,
           to possess the land of the Amorite.
11 I raised up some of your sons to be prophets,
          and some of your young men to be Nazirites.
     Isn't this true, O people of Israel?"
          says the LORD.
12 "But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink,
     and commanded the prophets, 'Do not prophesy.'
13 Look, I will squash you down,
     like a cart squashed under a load of grain.
14 Even the swift will not be able to escape,
     and the strong will not retain his strength,
           nor will the mighty be able to save himself.
15 Archers will not be able to hold their ground;
     he who is swift of foot will not be able to escape;
           nor will he who rides a horse be able to escape.
16 Even the bravest among the mighty
     will flee away naked in that day,"
           says the LORD.
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