{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/amos/2","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-31T02:16:57.296Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Amos","bookSlug":"amos","chapter":2,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":1,"nextChapter":3,"totalChapters":9,"totalVerses":16},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Thus said 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:"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"But I will send a fire on Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And I will cut off the judge from the middle thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, said the LORD."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Thus said 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:"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"But I will send a fire on Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Thus said 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;"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"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 to the same maid, to profane my holy name:"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And they lay themselves down on clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O you children of Israel? said the LORD."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"But you gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Neither shall he stand that handles the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rides the horse deliver himself."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, said the LORD."}],"citation":{"inline":"Amos 2 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Amos 2](https://primebible.com/akjv/amos/2)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/amos/2 (accessed 2026-05-31)."}}