KJB-1611 AMOS Chapter 2

0 1 Gods wrath against Moab, 4 vpon Iudah, 6 and vpon Israel. 9 God complaineth of their vnthankefulnesse. II ¶ [fn]Thus sayth the LORD, For three transgressions of Moab, and for foure, I wil not turne away the punishment thereof, because hee burnt the bones of the King of Edom into lime. 2 But I will send a fire vpon Moab, and it shall deuoure the palaces of Kerioth, and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet: 3 And I will cut off the iudge from the middest thereof, and wil slay all the princes thereof with him, sayeth the LORD. 4 ¶ Thus sayth the LORD, For three transgressions of Iudah, and for foure, I will not turne away the punishment thereof; because they haue despised the Law of the LORD, and haue not kept his Commandements, and their lies caused them to erre, after the which their fathers haue walked. 5 But I will send a fire vpon Iudah, and it shall deuoure the palaces of Ierusalem. 6 ¶ [fn]Thus sayth the LORD, For three transgressions of Israel, and for foure, I will not turne away the punishment thereof; because they solde the righteous for siluer, and the poore for a paire of shooes: 7 [fn]That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poore, and turne aside the way of the meeke; and a man and his father will goe in vnto the same maid, to profane my holy Name. 8 [fn]And they lay themselues downe vpon clothes laide to pledge, by euery Altar, and they drinke the wine of the condemned in the house of their God. 9 ¶ [fn]Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the Cedars, and hee was strong as the okes, yet I destroyed his fruite from aboue, and his rootes from beneath. 10 [fn]Also I brought you vp from the land of Egypt, and ledde you fourtie yeeres through the wildernesse, to possesse the land of the Amorite. 11 And I raised vp of your sonnes for Prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not euen thus, O ye children of Israel, saith the LORD? 12 [fn]But ye gaue the Nazarites wine to drinke, and commaunded the Prophets, saying, Prophecie not. 13 [fn]Behold, I am pressed vnder you, as a cart is pressed that is ful of sheaues. 14 [fn]Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mightie deliuer himselfe: 15 Neither shall hee stand that handleth the bow, and he that is swift of foote, shall not deliuer himselfe, neither shall hee that rideth the horse, deliuer himselfe. 16 [fn]And he that is couragious among the mighty, shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.

2:1 2.Kings.3.27.

2:6 Chap.8.8.

2:7 Or, young woman.

2:8 Or, such as haue fined or mulcted.

2:9 Num.21. 24. deut. 2. 31. iosh. 24.8.

2:10 Exod. 12. 51.

2:12 Cha.7.12.

2:13 Or, I will presse your place as a cart full of sheaues presseth.

2:14 Heb. his soule or life.

2:16 Heb. strong of his heart.

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