Amos 2:2-4

New International Reader's Version

²So I will send fire to destroy Moab.
    It will burn up Kerioth’s forts.
Moab will come crashing down with a loud noise.
    War cries will be heard.
    So will the blast of trumpets.
³I will kill Moab’s ruler.
    I will also kill all its officials,”
    says the Lord.

⁴The Lord says,

“The people of Judah have sinned again and again.
    So I will judge them.
They have refused to obey my law.
    They have not kept my rules.
Other gods have led them astray.
    Their people of long ago
    worshiped those gods.

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Amos 2:2-4

New International Version

²I will send fire on Moab
    that will consume the fortresses of Kerioth.^[a]^(A)
Moab will go down in great tumult
    amid war cries^(B) and the blast of the trumpet.^(C)
³I will destroy her ruler^(D)
    and kill all her officials with him,”^(E)
says the Lord.^(F)

⁴This is what the Lord says:

“For three sins of Judah,^(G)
    even for four, I will not relent.
Because they have rejected the law^(H) of the Lord
    and have not kept his decrees,^(I)
because they have been led astray^(J) by false gods,^[b]^(K)
    the gods^[c] their ancestors followed,^(L)

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Footnotes

Amos 2:2 Or of her cities
Amos 2:4 Or by lies
Amos 2:4 Or lies

Amos 2:2-4

King James Version

²But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:

³And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the Lord.

⁴Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the Lord, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:

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