{"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/kjv/amos/2","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-28T06:52:41.306Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","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, and for four, I will not turn away <i>the punishment</i> 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, <i>and</i> 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, and for four, I will not turn away <i>the punishment</i> 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 upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away <i>the punishment</i> 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 unto the <i>same</i> maid, to profane my holy name:"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And they lay <i>themselves</i> down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned <i>in</i> the house of their god."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height <i>was</i> like the height of the cedars, and he <i>was</i> 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. <i>Is it</i> not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"But ye 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 <i>that is</i> 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 handleth the bow; and <i>he that is</i> swift of foot shall not deliver <i>himself</i>: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And <i>he that is</i> courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD."}],"citation":{"inline":"Amos 2 (KJV)","markdown":"[Amos 2](https://primebible.com/kjv/amos/2)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/amos/2 (accessed 2026-05-28)."}}