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Amos 2

Hebrew Names Version HNV

1 Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Mo'av, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; Because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime;

2 But I will send a fire on Mo'av, And it will devour the palaces of Keriyot; And Mo'av will die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the shofar;

3 And I will cut off the judge from their midst, And will kill all its princes with him," says the LORD.

4 Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Yehudah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; Because they have rejected the law of the LORD, And have not kept his statutes, And their lies have led them astray, After which their fathers walked;

5 But I will send a fire on Yehudah, And it will devour the palaces of Yerushalayim."

6 Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Yisra'el, 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 shoes;

7 They trample on the dust of the eretz on the head of the poor, And deny justice to the oppressed; And a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

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 those who have been fined.

9 Yet I destroyed the Amori 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 Also I brought you up out of the land of Mitzrayim, And led you forty years in the wilderness, To possess the land of the Amori.

11 I raised up some of your sons for prophets, And some of your young men for Nazirim. Isn't this true, You children of Yisra'el?" says the LORD.

12 "But you gave the Nazirim wine to drink, And commanded the prophets, saying, 'Don't prophesy!'

13 Behold, I will crush you in your place, As a cart crushes that is full of grain.

14 Flight will perish from the swift; And the strong won't strengthen his force; Neither shall the mighty deliver himself;

15 Neither shall he stand who handles the bow; And he who is swift of foot won't escape; Neither shall he who rides the horse deliver himself;

16 And he who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked in that day," says the LORD.

The Message Bible MSG

1 God's Message: "Because of the three great sins of Moab - make that four - I'm not putting up with her any longer. She violated the corpse of Edom's king, burning it to cinders.

2 For that, I'm burning down Moab, burning down the forts of Kerioth. Moab will die in the shouting, go out in the blare of war trumpets.

3 I'll remove the king from the center and kill all his princes with him."

4 God's Message: "Because of the three great sins of Judah - make that four - I'm not putting up with them any longer. They rejected God's revelation, refused to keep my commands. But they swallowed the same old lies that got their ancestors onto dead-end roads.

5 For that, I'm burning down Judah, burning down all the forts of Jerusalem." Destroyed from the Roots Up

6 God's Message: "Because of the three great sins of Israel - make that four - I'm not putting up with them any longer. They buy and sell upstanding people. People for them are only things - ways of making money. They'd sell a poor man for a pair of shoes. They'd sell their own grandmother!

7 They grind the penniless into the dirt, shove the luckless into the ditch. Everyone and his brother sleeps with the 'sacred whore' - a sacrilege against my Holy Name.

8 Stuff they've extorted from the poor is piled up at the shrine of their god, While they sit around drinking wine they've conned from their victims.

9 "In contrast, I was always on your side. I destroyed the Amorites who confronted you, Amorites with the stature of great cedars, tough as thick oaks. I destroyed them from the top branches down. I destroyed them from the roots up.

10 And yes, I'm the One who delivered you from Egypt, led you safely through the wilderness for forty years And then handed you the country of the Amorites like a piece of cake on a platter.

11 I raised up some of your young men to be prophets, set aside your best youth for training in holiness. Isn't this so, Israel?" God's Decree.

12 "But you made the youth-in-training break training, and you told the young prophets, 'Don't prophesy!'

13 You're too much for me. I'm hard-pressed - to the breaking point. I'm like a wagon piled high and overloaded, creaking and groaning.

14 "When I go into action, what will you do? There's no place to run no matter how fast you run. The strength of the strong won't count. Fighters won't make it.

15 Skilled archers won't make it. Fast runners won't make it. Chariot drivers won't make it.

16 Even the bravest of all your warriors Won't make it. He'll run off for dear life, stripped naked." God's Decree.