Amos 2:1 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ Yet I cast out the Amorrhite before their face: whose height was like the height of cedars, and who was strong as an oak: and I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots beneath.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ THUS SAYS the Lord: For three transgressions of Moab [descendants of Lot] and for four [for multiplied delinquencies], I will not reverse the punishment of it or revoke My word concerning it, because he burned the bones of the king of Edom [Esau's descendant] into lime.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.

Common English Bible

¹ The LORD proclaims: For three crimes of Moab, and for four, I won’t hold back the punishment, because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Thus says the Lord: For three wicked deeds of Moab, and for four, I will not convert him, in so far as he has burned the bones of the king of Idumea, all the way to ashes.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath burnt the bones of the king of Edom even to ashes.

Amos 2:1 Cross References

2 Kings 3:9

4 And Eliseus said to him: As the Lord of hosts liveth, in whose sight I stand, if I did not reverence the face of Josaphat king of Juda, I would not have hearkened to thee, nor looked on thee.

Proverbs 15:3

0 Instruction is grievous to him that forsaketh the way of life: he that hateth reproof shall die.

Isaiah 11:14

Rejoice, and praise, O thou habitation of Sion: for great is he that is in the midst of thee, the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 16:6

4 And now the Lord hath spoken, saying: In three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be taken away for all the multitude of the people, and it shall be left small and feeble, not many.

Isaiah 25:10

The foot shall tread it down, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy.

Jeremiah 25:21

9 For behold I begin to bring evil on the city wherein my name is called upon: and shall you be as innocent and escape free? you shall not escape free: for I will call for the sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of hosts.

Amos 1:11

Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Juda, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath cast away the law of the Lord, and hath not kept his commandments: for their idols have caused them to err, after which their fathers have walked.

Amos 1:13

Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath sold the just man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of shoes.

Amos 1:3

1 Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath pursued his brother with the sword, and hath cast off all pity, and hath carried on his fury, and hath kept his wrath to the end.

Amos 1:6

4 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabba: and it shall devour the houses thereof with shouting in the day of battle, and with a whirlwind in the day of trouble.

Amos 1:9

And I will seed a fire into Moab, and it shall devour the houses of Carioth: and Moab shall die with a noise, with the sound of the trumpet:

Amos 2:4

2 And you will present wine to the Nazarites: and command the prophets, saying: Prophesy not.

Amos 2:6

4 And flight shall perish from the swift, and the valiant shall not possess his strength, neither shall the strong save his life.

Micah 6:5

3 And I therefore began to strike thee with desolation for thy sins.