Amos 2:6-16 - Judgment On Israel

⁶ 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.
⁷ They trample the heads of the poor
on the dust of the ground
and block the path of the needy.
A man and his father have sexual relations
with the same girl,
profaning My holy name.
⁸ They stretch out beside every altar
on garments taken as collateral,
and in the house of their God,
they drink wine obtained through fines.

⁹ 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.
¹⁰ And I brought you from the land of Egypt
and led you 40 years in the wilderness
in order to possess the land of the Amorite.
¹¹ 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.

¹² But you made the Nazirites drink wine
and commanded the prophets,
“Do not prophesy.”
¹³ Look, I am about to crush you in your place
as a wagon full of sheaves crushes grain.
¹⁴ Escape will fail the swift,
the strong one will not prevail by his strength,
and the brave will not save his life.
¹⁵ 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.
¹⁶ Even the most courageous of the warriors
will flee naked on that day—
this is the Lord’s declaration.