New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures — With References (Rbi8, en_US, 1984)
Amos
Amos, 2
1 “This is what Jehovah has said, ‘“On account of three revolts of Moʹab, and on account of four, I shall not turn it back, on account of his burning the bones of the king of Eʹdom for lime.
2 And I will send a fire into Moʹab, and it must devour the dwelling towers of Keʹri·oth; and with noise Moʹab must die, with an alarm signal, with the sound of a horn.*1
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3 And I will cut off [the] judge from the midst of her, and all her princes I shall kill with him,” Jehovah has said.’
4 “This is what Jehovah has said, ‘On account of three revolts of Judah, and on account of four, I shall not turn it back, on account of their rejecting the law of Jehovah, and [because] they did not keep his own regulations; but their lies, after which their forefathers had walked, kept making them wander.
5 And I will send a fire into Judah, and it must devour the dwelling towers of Jerusalem.’
6 “This is what Jehovah has said, ‘On account of three revolts of Israel, and on account of four, I shall not turn it back, on account of their selling someone righteous for mere silver, and someone poor for [the price of] a pair of sandals.
7 They are panting for the dust of [the] earth on the head of lowly persons; and the way of meek people they turn aside; and a man*1 and his own father have gone to the [same] girl, for the purpose of profaning my holy name.
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8 And on garments seized as a pledge they stretch themselves out beside every altar; and the wine of those who have been fined they drink at the house of their gods.’*1
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9 “‘But as for me, I had annihilated the Amʹor·ite on account of them, whose height was like the height of cedars, and who was vigorous like the massive trees; and I went annihilating his fruitage above and his roots below.
10 And I myself brought YOU people up out of the land of Egypt, and I kept making YOU walk through the wilderness forty years, in order to take possession of the land*1 of the Amʹor·ite.
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11 And I kept raising up some of YOUR sons as prophets and some of YOUR young men as Nazʹi·rites. Should this really not be, O sons of Israel?’ is the utterance of Jehovah.
12 “‘But YOU kept giving the Nazʹi·rites wine to drink, and upon the prophets YOU laid a command, saying: “YOU must not prophesy.”
13 Here I am making what is under YOU sway, just as the wagon sways that is full up with a row of newly cut grain.
14 And a place to which to flee must perish from the swift one, and no one strong will reinforce his power, and no mighty man will provide his soul*1 with escape.
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15 And no one handling the bow will stand, and no one swift on his feet will escape, and no rider of the horse will provide his soul with escape.
16 And as for one strong in his heart among the mighty men, naked is how he will flee in that day,’ is the utterance of Jehovah.”