- 1Thus 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:
- 2But 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:
- 3And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.
- 4 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:
- 5But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
- 6 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;
- 7That 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:
- 8And 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.
- 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.
- 10Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
- 11And 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.
- 12But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
- 13Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
- 14Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
- 15Neither 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.
- 16And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.
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AMOS 2
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Amos 2 — The Fire of Judgment Reaches Judah and Israel.
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The composition centers the fire of judgment reaches judah and israel as the chapter’s defining visual. It keeps judgment non-graphic, reserves a quiet title area, and avoids written words and any bodily depiction of God.
Scripture basis: Amos 2:1–16King James Version · Standardized 1769 text with Strong’s numbering · Public domain outside the United Kingdom
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