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| | Amo 2:1 | Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.
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| | Amo 2:2 | And I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerijoth; and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, [and] with the sound of the trumpet.
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| | Amo 2:3 | And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith Jehovah.
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| | Amo 2:4 | Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they have despised the law of Jehovah, and have not kept his statutes; and their lies have caused them to err, after which their fathers walked.
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| | Amo 2:5 | And I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
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| | Amo 2:6 | Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;
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| | Amo 2:7 | panting after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turning aside the way of the meek; and a man and his father will go in unto the [same] maid, to profane my holy name.
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| | Amo 2:8 | And they lay [themselves] down by every altar upon clothes taken in pledge, and they drink [in] the house of their God the wine of the condemned.
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| | Amo 2:9 | But I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was as the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; but I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
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| | Amo 2:10 | And I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
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| | Amo 2:11 | And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, ye children of Israel? saith Jehovah.
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| | Amo 2:12 | And ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
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| | Amo 2:13 | Behold, I will press upon you, as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves.
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| | Amo 2:14 | And flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver his soul.
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| | Amo 2:15 | Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and the swift of foot shall not escape, and he that rideth the horse shall not deliver his soul;
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| | Amo 2:16 | and he that is stout-hearted among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith Jehovah.
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