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Amos 2 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:1 - Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:2 - But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet;
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:3 - and I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith Jehovah.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:4 - Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have rejected the law of Jehovah, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, after which their fathers did walk.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:5 - But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:6 - Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes—
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:7 - they 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 go unto the same maiden, to profane my holy name:
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:8 - and they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:10 - Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:11 - And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith Jehovah.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:12 - But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:13 - Behold, I will press you in your place, as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:14 - And flight shall perish from the swift; and the strong shall not strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 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;
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:16 - and he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith Jehovah.
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Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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