The Tanakh · JPS 1917 Translation

Amos 2

Jewish Publication Society 1917 · Nevi'im — the Prophets

Amos chapter 2 — part of the Nevi'im — the Prophets in the Jewish Bible. In the classic JPS 1917 translation it opens: “Thus saith HaShem: For three transgressions of Moab, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because he burned the bones of the king of Edom…” — the complete text of all 16 verses is below, free to read online.

1Thus saith HaShem: For three transgressions of Moab, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.

2So will I 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 horn;

3And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith HaShem.

4Thus saith HaShem: For three transgressions of Judah, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because they have rejected the law of HaShem, and have not kept His statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, after which their fathers did walk.

5So will I send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

6Thus saith HaShem: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;

7That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the humble; and a man and his father go unto the same maid, to profane My holy name;

8And they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge, and in the house of their G-d they drink the wine of them that have been fined.

9Yet 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.

10Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorites.

11And 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 HaShem.

12But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying: 'Prophesy not.'

13Behold, I will make it creak under you, as a cart creaketh that is full of sheaves.

14And flight shall fail the swift, and the strong shall not exert his strength, neither shall the mighty deliver himself;

15Neither 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;

16And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith HaShem.

16 verses · JPS 1917 (public domain)

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