{"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/drb/amos/2","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T00:28:40.805Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"Amos","bookSlug":"amos","chapter":2,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":1,"nextChapter":3,"totalChapters":9,"totalVerses":16},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath burnt the bones of the king of Edom even to ashes. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"And I will seed a fire into Moab, and it shall devour the houses of Carioth: and Moab shall die with a noise, with the sound of the trumpet: "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all his princes with him, saith the Lord. "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Juda, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath cast away the law of the Lord, and hath not kept his commandments: for their idols have caused them to err, after which their fathers have walked. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"And I will send a fire into Juda, and it shall devour the houses of Jerusalem. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath sold the just man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of shoes. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"They bruise the heads of the poor upon the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the humble: and the son and his father have gone to the same young woman, to profane my holy name. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And they sat down upon garments laid to pledge by every altar: and drank the wine of the condemned in the house of their God. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Yet I cast out the Amorrhite before their face: whose height was like the height of cedars, and who was strong as an oak: and I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots beneath. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"It is I that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and I led you forty years through the wilderness, that you might possess the land of the Amorrhite. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not so, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord? "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"And you will present wine to the Nazarites: and command the prophets, saying: Prophesy not. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Behold, I will screak under you as a wain screaketh that is laden with hay. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And flight shall perish from the swift, and the valiant shall not possess his strength, neither shall the strong save his life. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"And he that holdeth the bow shall not stand, and the swift of foot shall not escape, neither shall the rider of the horse save his life. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And the stout of heart among the valiant shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord. "}],"citation":{"inline":"Amos 2 (DRB)","markdown":"[Amos 2](https://primebible.com/drb/amos/2)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/amos/2 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}