Amos

Israel Condemned for Social Injustice and Violence

Chapter 2

⁶ Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke my pardon; for selling a righteous man and a poor man for sandals. ⁷ Those who pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the oppressed; a man and his father go in to the girl, to profane my holy name. ⁸ They stretch out upon pledged garments beside every altar, and they drink the wine of fines in the house of their gods. ⁹ And I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars and who was strong like the oaks. I destroyed his fruit from above and his roots from below. ¹⁰ I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and I led you in the wilderness forty years to possess the land of the Amorite. ¹¹ And I raised up some of your sons for prophets and some of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not even so, sons of Israel? declares the LORD. ¹² But you made the Nazirites drink wine, and you commanded the prophets, saying, "Do not prophesy." ¹³ Behold, I am pressing down on you as a cart presses, one that is full of sheaves. ¹⁴ Flight will perish from the swift and the strong; he will not strengthen his power, and the mighty man will not deliver his nephesh. ¹⁵ The one grasping the bow will not stand, the swift of foot will not escape, and the rider on the horse will not escape with his life. ¹⁶ Even the most courageous of the mighty men will flee naked on that day, declares the LORD.

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