Amos 2 Darby Translation
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Amos is not in PT1904.
1 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.
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2 And I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerijoth; and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, [and] with the sound of the trumpet.
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3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith Jehovah.
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4 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they have despised the law of Jehovah, and have not kept his statutes; and their lies have caused them to err, after which their fathers walked.
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5 And I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
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6 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;
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7 panting after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turning aside the way of the meek; and a man and his father will go in unto the [same] maid, to profane my holy name.
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8 And they lay [themselves] down by every altar upon clothes taken in pledge, and they drink [in] the house of their God the wine of the condemned.
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9 But I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was as the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; but I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
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10 And I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
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11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, ye children of Israel? saith Jehovah.
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12 And ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
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13 Behold, I will press upon you, as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves.
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14 And flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver his soul.
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15 Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and the swift of foot shall not escape, and he that rideth the horse shall not deliver his soul;
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16 and he that is stout-hearted among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith Jehovah.
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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
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