Amos 2:1  GOD's Message: "Because of the three great sins of Moab --make that four--I'm not putting up with her any longer. She violated the corpse of Edom's king, burning it to cinders.

Amos 2:2  For that, I'm burning down Moab, burning down the forts of Kerioth. Moab will die in the shouting, go out in the blare of war trumpets.

Amos 2:3  I'll remove the king from the center and kill all his princes with him." GOD's Decree.

Amos 2:4  GOD's Message: "Because of the three great sins of Judah --make that four--I'm not putting up with them any longer. They rejected GOD's revelation, refused to keep my commands. But they swallowed the same old lies that got their ancestors onto dead-end roads.

Amos 2:5  For that, I'm burning down Judah, burning down all the forts of Jerusalem."

Amos 2:6  GOD's Message: "Because of the three great sins of Israel --make that four--I'm not putting up with them any longer. They buy and sell upstanding people. People for them are only things--ways of making money. They'd sell a poor man for a pair of shoes. They'd sell their own grandmother!

Amos 2:7  They grind the penniless into the dirt, shove the luckless into the ditch. Everyone and his brother sleeps with the 'sacred whore'-- a sacrilege against my Holy Name.

Amos 2:8  Stuff they've extorted from the poor is piled up at the shrine of their god, While they sit around drinking wine they've conned from their victims.

Amos 2:9  "In contrast, I was always on your side. I destroyed the Amosrites who confronted you, Amosrites with the stature of great cedars, tough as thick oaks. I destroyed them from the top branches down. I destroyed them from the roots up.

Amos 2:10  And yes, I'm the One who delivered you from Egypt, led you safely through the wilderness for forty years And then handed you the country of the Amosrites like a piece of cake on a platter.

Amos 2:11  I raised up some of your young men to be prophets, set aside your best youth for training in holiness. Isn't this so, Israel?" GOD's Decree.

Amos 2:12  "But you made the youth-in-training break training, and you told the young prophets, 'Don't prophesy!'

Amos 2:13  You're too much for me. I'm hard-pressed--to the breaking point. I'm like a wagon piled high and overloaded, creaking and groaning.

Amos 2:14  "When I go into action, what will you do? There's no place to run no matter how fast you run. The strength of the strong won't count. Fighters won't make it.

Amos 2:15  Skilled archers won't make it. Fast runners won't make it. Chariot drivers won't make it.

Amos 2:16  Even the bravest of all your warriors Won't make it. He'll run off for dear life, stripped naked." GOD's Decree.