Amos 2:3-5

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³ I will cut off the ruler from its midst,
    and will kill all its officials with him,
says the Lord.

⁴ Thus says the Lord:
For three transgressions of Judah,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment;^[a]
because they have rejected the law of the Lord,
    and have not kept his statutes,
but they have been led astray by the same lies
    after which their ancestors walked.
⁵ So I will send a fire on Judah,
    and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.