Amos 2:4-16

The LORD says: I will not relent from punishing Judah  for three crimes, even four, because they have rejected the instruction of the  LORD   and have not kept his statutes.  The lies  that their ancestors followed  have led them astray. Therefore, I will send fire  against Judah, and it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem. The LORD says: I will not relent from punishing Israel  for three crimes, even four, because they sell a righteous person for silver and a needy person for a pair of sandals.  They trample the heads of the poor  on the dust of the ground and obstruct the path of the needy.  A man and his father have sexual relations with the same girl,  profaning my holy name.  They stretch out beside every altar  on garments taken as collateral,  and in the house of their God they drink wine obtained through fines.  Yet I destroyed the Amorite  as Israel advanced; his height  was like the cedars, and he was as sturdy as the oaks; I destroyed his fruit  above and his roots beneath. And I brought you from the land of Egypt  and led you forty years in the wilderness  in order to possess the land of the Amorite.  I raised up some of your sons as prophets  and some of your young men as Nazirites.  Is this not the case, Israelites? This is the  LORD’s declaration. But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets, “Do not prophesy.”  Look, I am about to crush   you in your place  as a wagon crushes when full of grain. Escape will fail the swift,  the strong one will not maintain his strength,  and the warrior will not save his life. The archer will not stand his ground,  the one who is swift of foot will not save himself, and the one riding a horse will not save his life.  Even the most courageous of the warriors will flee naked on that day   — this is the  LORD’s declaration.

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