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Amos 2
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| 2:1 Thus saith 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: |
God says there are three or four reasons for him to punish Moab. But he only
mentions one: "because he burned the bones of the king of Edom." So God burned Moab because
they burned some bones.
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| 2:2
But I will send a fire
upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die
with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet: |
(2:2, 5)
"I will send a fire upon" Moab and Judah.
The divine pyromaniac threatens to "send fire unto" Moab.
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| 2:3
And I will cut
off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes
thereof with him, saith the LORD. |
"I ... will slay all the princes."
God will "slay all the princes" of Moab.
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| 2:4
Thus saith 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: |
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| 2:5
But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of
Jerusalem. |
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| 2:6
Thus saith 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; |
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| 2:7
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 same
maid, to profane my holy name: |
"A man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy
name."
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| 2:8
And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar,
and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god. |
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| 2:9
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. |
Giants!
God destroyed the Amorites who were a race of giants as tall
as cedars and as strong as oaks.
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| 2:10
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. |
"I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years
through the wilderness."
It took the Israelites 40 years to travel from Egypt to Canaan, yet such a journey, even at that time,
would have taken no more than ten days.
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| 2:11
And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for
Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.
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| 2:12
But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets,
saying, Prophesy not. |
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| 2:13
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of
sheaves. |
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| 2:14
Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not
strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself: |
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| 2:15
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. |
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| 2:16
And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that
day, saith the LORD.
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On the day of God's wrath, brave men "shall flee away naked."
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