Amos-Ahmos Chapter 2
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2 This says YHUH; For three transgressions of Moav and for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it; because he burned the bones of the melech of Edom into lime:
2 But I will send a fire upon Moav and it shall devour the palaces of Keriyoth: and Moav shall die with a tumult, with shouting and with the sound of the shofar:
3 And I will cut off the shophet from the midst of it and will slay all the princes of it with him, says YHUH.
4 This says YHUH; For three transgressions of Yahudah and for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it; because they have despised the Torot of YHUH and have not kept His chukim and their lies have caused them to go astray, after the halacha that their ahvot have also gone:
5 But I will send a fire upon Yahudah and it shall devour the palaces of Yahrushalayim.
6 This says YHUH; For three transgressions of Yisrael, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it; because they sold the tzadik for silver and the poor for a pair of sandals;
7 They crush the head of the poor in the dust of the earth and they turn aside the derech of the meek: and a man and his abba go into the same young girl, to profane My kadosh Name:
8 And they lay themselves down upon clothes taken in pledge by every altar and they drink the wine of the condemned in the bayit of their ahlahim.
9 Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars and they were as strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed their fruit from above and their roots from beneath.
10 Also I brought you up from the land of Mitzrayim and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
11 And I raised up your sons to be neviim and your young men to be Nazarites. Is it not so, O children of Yisrael? Says YHUH.
12 But you gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the neviim, saying, Prophesy not!
13 Behold, I am weighed down by your sin, as a cart is weighed down that is full of sheaves.
14 Therefore the safe place shall perish from the swift and the strong shall not strengthen his power, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
15 Neither shall he stand that handles the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rides the horse deliver himself.
16 And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that yom, says YHUH.
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AMOS 2:6 Efrayim, or non-Jewish Israel.