Amos 1:13-2:12

English Standard Version

¹³Thus says the Lord:

^(A)“For three transgressions of the ^(B)Ammonites,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because ^(C)they have ripped open pregnant women in ^(D)Gilead,
    that they might enlarge their border.
¹⁴So I will kindle a fire in the wall of ^(E)Rabbah,
    ^(F)and it shall devour her strongholds,
with shouting on the day of battle,
    ^(G)with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;
¹⁵and ^(H)their king shall go into exile,
    he and his princes^[a] together,”
says the Lord.

2 Thus says the Lord:

^(I)“For three transgressions of ^(J)Moab,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,^[b]
because ^(K)he burned to lime
    the bones of the king of Edom.
²So I will send a fire upon Moab,
    and it shall devour the strongholds of ^(L)Kerioth,
and Moab shall die amid uproar,
    amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet;
³^(M)I will cut off the ruler from its midst,
    and will kill ^(N)all its princes^[c] with him,”
says the Lord.

Judgment on Judah

⁴Thus says the Lord:

^(O)“For three transgressions of Judah,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because ^(P)they have rejected the law of the Lord,
    and have not kept his statutes,
but ^(Q)their lies have led them astray,
    those after which their fathers walked.
⁵So ^(R)I will send a fire upon Judah,
    and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.”

Judgment on Israel

⁶Thus says the Lord:

^(S)“For three transgressions of Israel,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because ^(T)they sell the righteous for ^(U)silver,
    and the needy for a pair of sandals—
⁷those who trample the head of the poor ^(V)into the dust of the earth
    and ^(W)turn aside the way of the afflicted;
^(X)a man and his father go in to the same girl,
    so that my holy name is profaned;
⁸they lay themselves down beside every altar
    on garments ^(Y)taken in pledge,
and in the house of their God they drink
    the wine of those who have been fined.

⁹“Yet ^(Z)it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them,
    ^(AA)whose height was like the height of the cedars
    and who was as strong as the oaks;
^(AB)I destroyed his fruit above
    and his roots beneath.
¹⁰^(AC)Also it was I who brought you up out of the land of Egypt
    ^(AD)and led you forty years in the wilderness,
    ^(AE)to possess the land of the Amorite.
¹¹And I raised up some of your sons for prophets,
    and some of your young men for ^(AF)Nazirites.
    Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?”
declares the Lord.