{"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/erv/amos/2","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T00:27:42.833Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ERV","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 transgressions of Moab, yea, 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 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:"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"and I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Judah, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have rejected the law of the LORD, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, after the which their fathers did walk:"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"but I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have sold the righteous for silver and the needy 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 unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"and they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge, and in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined."},{"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 out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in 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 Nazirites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Behold, I will press you in your place, as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And 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 handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself:"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"and he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD."}],"citation":{"inline":"Amos 2 (ERV)","markdown":"[Amos 2](https://primebible.com/erv/amos/2)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ERV. https://primebible.com/erv/amos/2 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}