Amos 2:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 I will cut off the ruler from its midst and will kill all its officials with him, says the Lord. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And I will cut off the ruler from its midst and will slay all its princes with him, says the Lord. American Standard Version (1901) and I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith Jehovah. Common English Bible I will remove their judge from them and slay all their officials with him, says the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version And I will destroy the judge in their midst, and I will execute all his leaders with him, says the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all his princes with him, saith the Lord. |
When they are given over to those who shall condemn them, then they shall learn that my words were pleasant.
who brings princes to naught and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing.
Surely, because you trusted in your strongholds and your treasures, you also shall be taken; Chemosh shall go out into exile, with his priests and his attendants.
For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe and push aside the needy in the gate.
Ah, you who turn justice to wormwood and bring righteousness to the ground!
Do horses run on rocky crags? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,
I see him but not now; I behold him but not near— a star shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel; it shall crush the foreheads of Moab and the heads of all the Shethites.