Amos 2 - UPDV Updated Bible Version

^2:1 Thus says Yahweh: For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
^2:2 but I will send a fire on Moab, and it will devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet;
^2:3 and I will cut off the judge from the midst of it, and will slay all its princes with him, says Yahweh.
^2:4 Thus says Yahweh: For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have rejected the law of Yahweh, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, after which their fathers walked:
^2:5 but I will send a fire on Judah, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
^2:6 Thus says Yahweh: For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals--
^2:7 those who pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father go to the [same] maiden, to profane my holy name:
^2:8 and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined.
^2:9 Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
^2:10 Also I brought you⁺ up out of the land of Egypt, and led you⁺ forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
^2:11 And I raised up of your⁺ sons for prophets, and of your⁺ young men for Nazirites. Is it not even thus, O you⁺ sons of Israel? says Yahweh.
^2:12 But you⁺ gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, Don't prophesy.
^2:13 Look, I will press [you⁺] in your⁺ place, as a cart presses that is full of sheaves.
^2:14 And flight will perish from the swift; and the strong will not strengthen his force; neither will the mighty deliver his soul;
^2:15 neither will he stand that handles the bow; and he who is swift of foot will not deliver [his soul]; neither will he who rides the horse deliver his soul;
^2:16 and he who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked in that day, says Yahweh.

Amos, Chapter 2