Amos 2 JPS Tanakh (1917)
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Notes on this text (1)
- Numbers like (22-2) in the text give the Hebrew verse numbering where it differs.
Amos is not in PT1904.
1 Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Moab, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.
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2 So will I send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the horn;
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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 the LORD.
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4 Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Judah, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because they have rejected the law of the LORD, and have not kept His statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, after which their fathers did walk.
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5 So will I send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
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6 Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;
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7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the humble; and a man and his father go unto the same maid, to profane My holy name;
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8 And they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge, and in the house of their God they drink the wine of them that have been fined.
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9 Yet destroyed I 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.
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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 Amorites.
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11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.
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12 But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying: 'Prophesy not.'
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13 Behold, I will make it creak under you, as a cart creaketh that is full of sheaves.
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14 And flight shall fail the swift, and the strong shall not exert his strength, neither shall the mighty deliver himself;
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15 Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself; neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself;
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16 And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.
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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
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences