The Scriptures 1998

Amos 2:3-8 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

3. “And I shall cut off the judge from its midst, and slay all its heads with him,” said יהוה.

4. Thus said יהוה, “For three transgressions of Yehuḏah, and for four, I do not turn it back, because they have rejected the Torah of יהוה, and did not guard His laws. And their lies after which their fathers walked lead them astray.

5. “But I shall send fire upon Yehuḏah, and it shall consume the palaces of Yerushalayim.”

6. Thus said יהוה, “For three transgressions of Yisra’ĕl, and for four, I do not turn it back, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals,

7. who crush the head of the poor ones in the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the meek. And a man and his father go in to the same girl, to defile My set-apart Name.

8. “And they lie down by every altar on garments taken in pledge, and in the house of their mighty one they drink the wine of those who have been fined.