Lexham English Bible

Amos 2:5-10 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

5. So I will send a fire against Judah and it will devour the citadel fortresses of Jerusalem.

6. Thus says Yahweh: “For three transgressions of Israel and for four I will not revoke the punishment, because they sell the righteous for money and the poor for a pair of sandals!

7. Those who trample the heads of the powerless into the dust of the ground and turn aside the way of the destitute, a man and his father have sexual relations with the same girl, so that they profane my holy name.

8. They stretch themselves out beside every altar on clothing taken in pledge and they drink wine, bought with fines imposed, in the house of their God.

9. Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, who was as tall as cedars and was as strong as the oaks. I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.

10. And I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and I led you in the wilderness forty years to take possession of the land of the Amorite.