Amos 22AmosJudgment on the nations and IsraelThe Orthodox Jewish Bible Tanakh and Orthodox Jewish Brit Chadasha The Holy Bible

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1. Judgment on Moab, Judah, and Israel

2. 1ENGOJBThus saith Hashem: For shloshah peysha'im of Moav, even for arba'ah, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of Melech Edom into lime;BSBBSB: This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Moab, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he burned to lime the bones of Edom’s king.
3. 2ENGOJBBut I will send an eish upon Moav, and it shall devour the fortresses of Keriyot; and Moav shall die with tumult, with war cries, and with the blast of the shofar;BSBBSB: So I will send fire against Moab to consume the citadels of Kerioth. Moab will die in tumult, amid war cries and the sound of the ram’s horn.
4. 3ENGOJBAnd I will cut off the shofet (judge) from the midst thereof, and will slay all the sarim (princes) thereof with him, saith Hashem.BSBBSB: I will cut off the ruler of Moab and kill all the officials with him,” says the LORD.
5. 4ENGOJBThus saith Hashem: For shloshah peysha'im of Yehudah, even for arba'ah, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the torat Hashem, and have not been shomer over His chukkim, and their lies caused them to err, after the halakhah of their avot;BSBBSB: This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked.
6. 5ENGOJBBut I will send an eish upon Yehudah, and it shall devour the fortresses of Yerushalayim.BSBBSB: So I will send fire upon Judah to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.”
7. 6ENGOJBThus saith Hashem: For shloshah peysha'im of Yisroel, even for arba'ah, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the tzaddik for kesef, and the needy for a pair of sandals;BSBBSB: This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals.
8. 7ENGOJBThey who trample on the dust of the ground which is on the rosh of the poor, and turn aside the derech of the anavim; and an ish and his av will go in unto the same na'arah, to commit chillul Hashem against My Shem kodesh;BSBBSB: They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.
9. 8ENGOJBAnd they lay themselves down upon clothes taken in pledge by every mizbe'ach, and they guzzle the yayin of the fined in the Beis Eloheichem.BSBBSB: They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.
10. 9ENGOJBYet destroyed I HaEmori before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his p'ri from above, and his shorashim from beneath.BSBBSB: Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.
11. 10ENGOJBAlso I brought you up from Eretz Mitzrayim, and led you arba'im shanah through the midbar, to possess the Eretz HaEmori (land of the Amorite).BSBBSB: And I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, that you might take possession of the land of the Amorite.
12. 11ENGOJBAnd I raised up of your banim for nevi'im, and of your bochurim for Nezirim. Is it not even thus, O ye Bnei Yisroel? saith Hashem.BSBBSB: I raised up prophets from your sons and Nazirites from your young men. Is this not true, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD.
13. 12ENGOJBBut ye gave the Nezirim yayin to drink; and commanded the nevi'im, saying: Prophesy not.BSBBSB: “But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.
14. 13ENGOJBHinei, I am weighed down by you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.BSBBSB: Behold, I am about to crush you in your place as with a cart full of grain.
15. 14ENGOJBTherefore flight shall perish from the swift, and the chazak shall not strengthen his ko'ach, neither shall the gibbor deliver his own nefesh;BSBBSB: Escape will fail the swift, the strong will not prevail by his strength, and the mighty will not save his life.
16. 15ENGOJBNeither shall he stand that handleth the keshet; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver his own nefesh; neither shall he that rideth the sus deliver himself.BSBBSB: The archer will not stand his ground, the fleet of foot will not escape, and the horseman will not save his life.
17. 16ENGOJBAnd he that is courageous among the gibborim shall flee away naked in that Yom, saith Hashem.BSBBSB: Even the bravest of mighty men will flee naked on that day,” declares the LORD.