Amos 2

Amos 2:1

Because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.

Because he so hated the Israelites, as that when the Edomites joined themselves to the aid of Israel, Moab, for extreme despite thereof, burnt the very bones of the king of Edom’s son to ashes, in way of sacrifice to his gods.

Amos 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 a trumpet.

There I will send Nebuchadnezzar, as a fire upon Moab, which shall utterly destroy the chief city Kirioth; and Moab shall die in much horror, in the midst of the tumults and shrieks of war.

Amos 2:6

Because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes.

For that, upon every base and worthless bribe, they have yielded so far to be corrupted, as to sell justice, and to betray innocence, and to undo the poor and helpless.

Amos 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:

All their desire is after this unprofitable dust of the earth, silver and gold; which they eagerly affect to gain, even by trampling on the heads of the poor; and those, that are meek spirited, do they tyrannize over, and proudly oppress: and so are they given over to their filthy and incestuous lust, as that the father and the son shame not to defile themselves with one and the same strumpet, to the great profanation and dishonour of my Name, which they have professed.

Amos 2:8

And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge upon every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their God.

In their feasts, which they make to their idols, they lay themselves down upon the carpets, which are laid to pawn for the need of their brethren: wherein their idolatry is not less odious, than their cruelty; for thus do they before every altar; and in the same feasts, they drink that wine, which is bought with the fines and mulcts of those, whom they have unjustly condemned; even in the house of their idols.

Amos 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.

Yet I had deserved better things of them; for I destroyed the Amorites before them, which were tall and mighty giants, above the ordinary proportion of strength or stature; yet I utterly rooted them out, for the sake of my people, and left no remnant of that race for their annoyance.

Amos 2:12

But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophecy not.

But ye, contrary to my law, gave the Nazarites wine to drink, that ye might corrupt them; and enjoined silence to my prophets, whom I sent to tell you of your sins, and my judgments.

Amos 2:13

Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.

Behold I am even overlaid with your wickedness: it is with me, as with a cart that is overpressed with a load of sheaves, which goes heavily, and is ready to break under the burden.