Amos
Summary
The judgements upon MOAB, JUDAH, and ISRAEL. it records the continuation of the 'three transgressions, and for four' formula, concluding with a searing indictment of the northern kingdom of Israel. it features accusations of SOCIAL INJUSTICE, including the selling of the righteous for silver and the poor for a pair of shoes. it recalls God's deliverance of the nation from Egypt and the destruction of the Amorite giants, contrasting His grace with their present rebellion.
Thus says 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:"
"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:"
"And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him," says the LORD.
Thus says 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:"
"But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem."
Thus says 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;"
"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 to the same maid, to profane My holy name:"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O you children of Israel?" says the LORD.
"But you gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, 'Prophesy not.'"
"Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves."
"Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:"
"Neither shall he stand that handles the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rides the horse deliver himself."
"And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day," says the LORD.