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Amos 2 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:1 - Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they burnt the bones of the king of Idumea to lime.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:2 - But I will send forth a fire on Moab, and it shall devour the foundations of its cities: and Moab shall perish in weakness, with a shout, and with the sound of a trumpet.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:3 - And I will destroy the judge out of her, and slay all her princes with him, saith the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:4 - Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of the children of Juda, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his ordinances, and their vain idols which they made, which their fathers followed, caused them to err.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:5 - And I will send a fire on Juda, and it shall devour the foundations of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:6 - Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for sandals,
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:7 - wherewith to tread on the dust of the earth, and they have smitten upon the heads of the poor, and have perverted the way of the lowly: and a son and his father have gone in to the same maid, that they might profane the name of their God.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:8 - And binding their clothes with cords they have made them curtains near the altar, and they have drunk wine gained by extortion in the house of their God.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:9 - Nevertheless I cut off the Amorite from before them, whose height was as the height of a cedar, and he was strong as an oak; and I dried up his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:10 - And I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you about in the desert forty years, that ye should inherit the land of the Amorites.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:11 - And I took of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for consecration. Are not these things so, ye sons of Israel? saith the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:12 - But ye gave the consecrated ones wine to drink; and ye commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:13 - Therefore, behold, I roll under you, as a waggon full of straw is rolled.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:14 - And flight shall perish from the runner, and the strong shall not hold fast his strength, and the warrior shall not save his life:
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:15 - and the archer shall not withstand, and he that is swift of foot shall in no wise escape; and the horseman shall not save his life.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:16 - And the strong shall find no confidence in power: the naked shall flee away in that day, saith the Lord.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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