Amos 2:1-8

Judgment on Moab

¹This is what the Lord says:

“For three offenses of Moab, and for four,

I will not revoke its punishment,

Because he burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime.

2“So I will send fire upon Moab

And it will consume the citadels of Kerioth;

And Moab will die amid the panic of battle,

Amid war cries and the sound of a trumpet.

3“I will also eliminate the judge from her midst

And slay all her leaders with him,” says the Lord.

Judgment on Judah

4This is what the Lord says:

“For three offenses of Judah, and for four,

I will not revoke its punishment,

Because they rejected the Law of the Lord

And have not kept His statutes;

Their lies also have led them astray,

Those which their fathers followed.

5“So I will send fire upon Judah,

And it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem.”

Judgment on Israel

6This is what the Lord says:

“For three offenses of Israel, and for four,

I will not revoke its punishment,

Because they sell the righteous for money,

And the needy for a pair of sandals.

7“These who trample the head of the helpless to the dust of the earth

Also divert the way of the humble;

And a man and his father resort to the same girl

So as to profane My holy name.

8“And on garments seized as pledges they stretch out beside every altar,

And in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.