Amos 2 Bible in Basic English
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1 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because he had the bones of the king of Edom burned to dust.
1 Yahweh says: “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 And I will send a fire on Moab, burning up the great houses of Kerioth: and death will come on Moab with noise and outcries and the sound of the horn:
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;
3 And I will have the judge cut off from among them, and all their captains I will put to death with him, says the Lord.
3 and I will cut off the judge from among them, and will kill all its princes with him,” says Yahweh.
4 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Judah, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given up the law of the Lord, and have not kept his rules; and their false ways, in which their fathers went, have made them go out of the right way.
4 Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because they have rejected Yahweh’s law, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked;
5 And I will send a fire on Judah, burning up the great houses of Jerusalem.
5 but I will send a fire on Judah, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem.”
6 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given the upright man for silver, and the poor for the price of two shoes;
6 Yahweh says: “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;
7 Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:
7 They trample the heads of the poor into the dust of the earth and deny justice to the oppressed. A man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name.
8 By every altar they are stretched on clothing taken from those who are in their debt, drinking in the house of their god the wine of those who have made payment for wrongdoing.
8 They lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge. In the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.
9 Though I sent destruction on the Amorite before them, who was tall as the cedar and strong as the oak-tree, cutting off his fruit from on high and his roots from under the earth.
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.
10 And I took you up out of the land of Egypt, guiding you for forty years in the waste land, so that you might take for your heritage the land of the Amorite.
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.
11 And some of your sons I made prophets, and some of your young men I made separate for myself. Is it not even so, O children of Israel? says the Lord.
11 I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Isn’t this true, you children of Israel?” says Yahweh.
12 But to those who were separate you gave wine for drink; and to the prophets you said, Be prophets no longer.
12 “But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Don’t prophesy!’
13 See, I am crushing you down, as one is crushed under a cart full of grain.
13 Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain.
14 And flight will be impossible for the quick-footed, and the force of the strong will become feeble, and the man of war will not get away safely:
14 Flight will perish from the swift. The strong won’t strengthen his force. The mighty won’t deliver himself.
15 And the bowman will not keep his place; he who is quick-footed will not get away safely: and the horseman will not keep his life.
15 He who handles the bow won’t stand. He who is swift of foot won’t escape. He who rides the horse won’t deliver himself.
16 And he who is without fear among the fighting men will go in flight without his clothing in that day, says the Lord.
16 He who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked on that day,” says Yahweh.
Cross references (16)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Zephaniah 2:8–9; Amos 1:3; Ezekiel 25:8–9; Jeremiah 48:1–47; Isaiah 25:10
- 2 Jeremiah 48:41; Jeremiah 48:24; Amos 1:14; Isaiah 9:5; Jeremiah 48:34
- 3 Jeremiah 48:7; Numbers 24:17; Jeremiah 48:25; Isaiah 40:23; Psalm 2:10
- 4 Ezekiel 20:24; Ezekiel 20:16; Ezekiel 20:13; Hosea 12:2; Habakkuk 2:18
- 5 Hosea 8:14; Jeremiah 17:27; Jeremiah 21:10; Jeremiah 52:13; Jeremiah 37:8–10
- 6 Joel 3:3; Amos 5:11–12; Micah 3:2–3; Amos 8:4–6; Ezekiel 23:5–9
- 7 Amos 5:12; Ezekiel 22:11; Isaiah 10:2; Micah 2:9; Micah 2:2
- 8 Deuteronomy 24:12–17; Exodus 22:26–27; Amos 6:6; Hosea 4:8; 1 Corinthians 8:10
- 9 Malachi 4:1; Job 18:16; Exodus 34:11; Numbers 13:28–29; Genesis 15:16
- 10 Deuteronomy 2:7; Exodus 12:51; Acts 7:42; Amos 3:1; Acts 13:18
- 11 Numbers 6:2–3; Jeremiah 7:25; 1 Kings 20:13; Deuteronomy 18:18; 2 Kings 6:1
- 12 Isaiah 30:10; Amos 7:13; Micah 2:6; Jeremiah 11:21; Amos 7:16
- 13 Isaiah 1:14; Isaiah 7:13; Malachi 2:17; Isaiah 43:24; Ezekiel 16:43
- 14 Jeremiah 9:23; Ecclesiastes 9:11; Psalm 33:16; Amos 9:1–3; Job 11:20
- 15 Psalm 33:16–17; Ezekiel 39:3
- 16 Mark 14:52; Jeremiah 48:41; Judges 4:17; 2 Kings 7:8–20
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences