Amos 2
16 verses
After condemning the surrounding nations, Amos turns his prophetic sword against Judah and then Israel, announcing judgment against each kingdom for covenant violation and injustice, with Israel receiving the harshest condemnation and the most detailed catalogue of sins. Israel is condemned for selling the righteous for silver and the poor for a pair of sandals, trampling the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and turning aside the humble, engaging in sexual exploitation, and enforcing a drunken revelry sustained by the oppressed. The prophet recalls God's mighty deeds on Israel's behalf—delivering them from Egypt, guiding them forty years in the wilderness, raising up prophets and Nazirites from among them—only to highlight the tragic irony that Israel has silenced the prophets and seduced the Nazirites into drunkenness, rejecting the means of God's grace. The chapter establishes Amos's core conviction: God holds Israel to the highest standard of justice and righteousness precisely because Israel has been the recipient of the greatest covenant benefits and divine protection. Thus Israel's social injustice—its oppression of the poor, its sexual immorality, its silencing of prophetic witness—is not merely social wrongdoing but covenantal apostasy deserving the severest judgment.
VERSES IN THIS CHAPTER
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Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
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But I will 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 trumpet:
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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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Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the Lord, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
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But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
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Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
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That 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 will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
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And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
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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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Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
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And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the Lord.
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But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
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Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
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Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
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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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And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.
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