Amos 2

Tree of Life Version

As for Judah and Israel
⁴ Thus says Adonai:
“For three crimes of Judah
    even for four, I will not relent.
For they despise Adonai’s Torah
    and have not kept His statutes.
Their lies have misled them—
those their fathers walked after.
⁵ So I will send fire upon Judah—
it will devour Jerusalem’s citadels.”
⁶ Thus says Adonai:
“For three crimes of Israel
    even for four, I will not relent.
For they sell the righteous for silver
    and the needy for a pair of shoes.
⁷ They trample the head of the poor
    into the dust of the earth
and thwart the way of the humble.
A man and his father go to the same girl,^[a]
    to profane My holy Name.
⁸ Upon garments taken in pledge
    they stretch out beside every altar,
and drink wine confiscated as fines
    in the house of their gods.

⁹ “I destroyed the Amorite before them,
whose height was like cedars
    and as strong as oaks—
    yes, I destroyed his fruit from above
    and his roots from beneath.
¹⁰ It was I also who brought you up from the land of Egypt
    and led you forty years in the wilderness
    to possess the Amorite’s land.
¹¹ I raised up prophets from your sons
and Nazirites from your young men.
Is this not so, Bnei Yisrael?”
declares Adonai.
¹² “But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink,
and you commanded the prophets saying,
    ‘Do not prophesy.’
¹³ Behold! I will cause a tottering beneath you
    as a cart totters when full of sheaves.
¹⁴ Then flight will fail for the swift.
The mighty will not strengthen his power,
The warrior will not save his life.
¹⁵ The archer will not stand,
the fleet-footed will not escape,
the horseman will not save himself.
¹⁶ The valiant among the warriors
    will flee naked in that day.”
declares Adonai.